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Can Private School Growth Foster Universal Literacy? Panel Evidence from Indian Districts

Pal, Sarmistha - 2010

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set the agenda for the attainment of universal literacy by 2015 primarily to be … this respect. Using India as an important case in point, we intend to bridge this gap of the literature. Results using a … unique district-level panel data-set from 17 major states of India for the period 1992-2002 that we compile highlight a …

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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 …

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Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Infant and Child Health in India

Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2012

and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations … groups – children of uneducated poor women living in rural India …

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Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012

This paper provides descriptive evidence about the distribution of wages and skills in denser and less dense employment areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over-representation of workers with particularly high and low skills...

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Walled Cities and Urban Density in China

Du, Rui - 2018

Throughout the imperial era, defensive walls surrounded Chinese cities. Although most city walls have vanished, the cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half historically had city walls. We document that cities that had...

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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas

Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2015

We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law

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Urban Density and Covid-19

Carozzi, Felipe - 2020

This paper estimates the link between population density and COVID-19 spread and severity in the contiguous United States. To overcome confounding factors, we use two Instrumental Variable (IV) strategies that exploit geological features and historical populations to induce exogenous variation...

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Protestantism and Education : Reading (the Bible) and Other Skills

Boppart, Timo - 2011

During industrialization, Protestants were more literate than Catholics. This paper investigates whether this fact may be led back to the intrinsic motivation of Protestants to read the bible and whether other education motives were involved as well. We employ a historical data set from...

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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 …

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