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Lifting the iron curtain : school-age education and entrepreneurial intentions

Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan - 2015

We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...

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Formal education versus learning-by-doing

Gavrel, Frédéric; Lebon, Isabelle; Rebière, Thérèse - 2014

The efficiency of educational choices is studied in a search-matching model where individuals face a tradeoff: acquiring formal education or learning while on the job. When their education effort is successful, newcomers directly obtain a high-skill job; otherwise, they begin with a low-skill...

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Does a food for education program affect school outcomes? : The Bangladesh case

Meng, Xin (contributor); Ryan, Jim G. (contributor) - 2007

"The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this …

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Family planning as an investment in development : evaluation of a program's consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh

Joshi, Shareen (contributor); Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2007

"The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 …

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Early childbirth, health inputs and child mortality : recent evidence from Bangladesh

Maitra, Pushkar (contributor); Pal, Sarmistha (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where …

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Economic growth and child poverty reduction in Bangladesh and China

Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Deng, Quheng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2011

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The … of child income as well as in the demographic composition. -- child poverty ; economic growth ; Bangladesh ; China …

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School access, resources, and learning outcomes : evidence from a non-formal school program in Bangladesh

Dang, Hai-anh; Sarr, Leopold; Asadullah, Niaz - 2011

– in Bangladesh where school grants and education allowances are offered to attract hard-to-reach children to schools …

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Poisoning the mind : arsenic contamination of drinking water wells and children's educational achievement in rural Bangladesh

Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2011

Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater … Bangladesh using recent nationally representative data on secondary school children. We unambiguously find a negative and … well-being ; Bangladesh …

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Cognitive, non-cognitive skills and gender wage gaps : evidence from linked employer-employee data in Bangladesh

Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2015

We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender …

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Corruption in the health sector : evidence from unofficial consultation fees in Bangladesh

Abdallah, Wahid; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Iqbal, Kazi - 2015

We study the incidence and extent of bribes paid to the doctors in the public health facilities which are cleverly identified using a nationally representative survey. The survey asks households about the fees paid to public doctors, not about the bribe, which makes it less prone to reporting...

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