. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more working-age adults are likely to grow faster than cities with more children … ratios, that is, with more children and/or seniors per working-age adult, grow significantly slower. Such effects are … particularly pronounced for cities with high shares of children. This result appears to be driven mainly by the direct, negative …

birth size and measures of physical growth in children under-five years of age, in particular for children under two years … characteristics at birth, maternal and paternal education, and paternal occupation also had a consistent positive association with all …

economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …

disconnected from formal skills development systems; (ii) actual skills, rather than education levels, diplomas, or years of … public policies on post-secondary education, vocational education and training (VET) system labor market information and … of Statistics in Albania [INSTAT], United Nations Development Programme [UNDP], and the National Employment Services [NES …