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Can Private School Growth Foster Universal Literacy? Panel Evidence from Indian Districts
Pal, Sarmistha - 2010
delivered by the state sector. This agenda tends to ignore the significant private school growth around the world since early … 1990s, thus initiating the policy debate as to whether private school growth may foster 'education for all'. Despite … significant positive impact of private school growth on literacy while its effect on gender gap in literacy remains rather limited …
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A Teenager in Love : Multidimensional Human Capital and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2017
I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal educational attainment, and adult literacy program participation. Pursuing several alternative identification strategies three main results are established. First, I confirm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959056
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Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014
Bartels, Charlotte - 2018
This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present. Income concentration was high in the nineteenth century, dropped sharply after World War I and during the hyperinflation years of the 1920s, and increased rapidly throughout the...
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Three Revolutions of the Modern Era
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2019
The emergence and evolution of modern science since the 17th century has led to three major breakthroughs in the human condition. The first, the Industrial Revolution, started in the late 18th century and is based chiefly on developments associated with the rise of the natural sciences. The...
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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
de la Croix, David - 2016
in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for …
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Why Did the Netherlands Develop so Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Akcomak, Semih - 2013
This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands … of literacy in the Netherlands. In addition, there are positive effects of the BCL on book production and on city growth …
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The Elite and the Marginalised : An Analysis of Public Spending on Mass Education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2021
In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite...
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Do Literacy and Numeracy Pay Off? On the Relationship between Basic Skills and Earnings
Antoni, Manfred - 2012
between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey …
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Young Immigrant Children and Their Educational Attainment
Ohinata, Asako - 2012
We analyze the determinants of reading literacy, mathematical skills and science skills of young immigrant children in the Netherlands. We find that these are affected by age at immigration and whether or not one of the parents is native Dutch
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'Teaching to Teach' Literacy
Machin, Stephen J. - 2016
Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually rectifying literacy deficiencies. The subject remains...
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