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The Determinants of Self-Eployment in Pakistan: Evidence From Primary Data Analysis

Anwar, Mumtaz; Faridi, Muhammad Zahir; Chaudhry, Imran … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

-employment. Moreover, educational attainment and good health variables have also significant and positive influence on workers’ decision to … agricultural education at basic and secondary level to the workers. It is also concluded that health facilities should be provided …

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Future of Mid-Day Meals

Dreze, Jean; Goyal, Aparajita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Spurred by a recent Supreme Court order, many Indian states have introduced cooked mid-day meals in primary schools. This article reports the findings of a recent survey which suggests that this initiative could have a major impact on child nutrition, school attendance and social equity....

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The Adjusted Measure of Body Mass Index for the Chinese and its Impact on Health

Qiu, Tian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

comes from the Physical Examination in China Health and Nutrition Survey. To an extent we confirm the results with respect … based on the ratio of height to weight, linked to health, using a four-year (1991, 1993, 1997 and 2000) panel data set which … range based on self-reported health. We also find that variables such as income can modify the impact of an adverse BMI on …

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Estimating the Permanent Growth Effects of Human Capital

Rao, Bhaskara; Shankar, Sriram - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper estimates with the least trimmed least squares (LTS) a specification suitable to estimate the permanent growth effects of human capital, using educational attainment (H) as a proxy. Our results show that H has significant permanent growth effects but these are much smaller than in...

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FDI activity and worker compensation: evidence from U.S. non-manufacturing industries

Eren, Ozlem; Peoples, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This study examines worker compensation effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) activity in US non-manufacturing industry sectors. A clustered standard error correction is used when estimating wage and non-wage compensation equations, with special attention given to FDI’s effect by worker...

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The Effects of School Term Length on Education and Earnings: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Parinduri, Rasyad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines the effects of a longer school year in Indonesia on grade repetition, educational attainment, employability, and earnings. I exploit an arbitrary rule that assigned students to a longer school year in Indonesia in 1978-1979, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design....

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IMPACT OF SIBSHIP SIZE, BIRTH ORDER, AND SEX COMPOSITION ON SCHOOL ENROLLMENT IN URBAN TURKEY

Kırdar, Murat G.; Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Tansel, Aysıt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper investigates the effects of sibship size, birth order and sibling sex composition on children’s school enrollment in urban Turkey. Moreover, we examine how the effects of these variables vary by household income and the gender of the children. We utilize an instrumental variables...

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Measures of schoolchild height and weight as indicators of community nutrition, lessons from Brazil

Calitri, Ronald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

lacking for children 5-19, undesirably, as differences in growth and development from 5-19 are strongly associated with health …

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Determinants of Academic Attainment in the US: a Quantile regression analysis of test scores

Haile, Getinet; Nguyen, Ngoc Anh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We investigate the determinants of high school students’ academic attainment in maths, reading and science; focusing particularly on possible effects that ethnicity and family background may have on attainment. Using data from the NELS2000 and employing quantile regression techniques, we find...

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The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in Canada: Analysis based on the General Social Survey

Kucera, Miroslav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Using data from the 2001 General Social Survey, this study focused on differences in educational attainment between the children of immigrants to Canada, referred to as second-generation immigrants, and similarly-aged children of Canadian-born parents. Two definitions of second-generation...

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