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(MFxLS). The results indicate important ethnic differences in human capital accumulation patterns, especially in education …
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This paper presents results from a randomized control trial in which approximately 1,000 OLPC XO laptops were provided for home use to children attending primary schools in Lima, Peru. The intervention increased access and use of home computers, with some substitution away from computer use...
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due to differences in individual outcomes like education, health, labor situation and housing quality. …
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technological breakthroughs of the last quarter century. Top students from all over the world come here for graduate education …
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years of education, while those whose fathers were affected by the earthquake at birth have no effects on their education …
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This study documents the size and nature of boy-girl and Hindu-Muslim gaps in childrens school participation and attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable progress has been made in decreasing the Hindu-Muslim...
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This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling … for a variety of characteristics, the paper finds that higher education levels tend to result in rodemocracy views. These …
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This paper uses a natural policy experiment to estimate how changes in the costs of engaging in criminal activity may influence adolescents¿ decisions in crime participation and school attendance. The study finds that, after an exogenous decrease in the severity of judicial punishment imposed...
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on the quality of public education in Peru. The research uses data from a 1999 household survey (ENAHO) and from a recent … evaluation of a public program oriented to improve the quality of Peruvian public education. Regarding the evolution of … educational services in the Peruvian public education system. …
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support cash transfers more than the rich, the rich are more likely than the poor to support expenditures on public education …
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