Showing 1 - 10 of 432
I examine the effects of education on health in Indonesia using an exogenous variation in education induced by an … extension of Indonesia's school term length in 1978-1979, a natural experiment that fits a regression discontinuity design. I … find the longer school year increases educational attainment and wages, but I do not find evidence that education improves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210848
longer school year in Indonesia in 1978, which fits a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. We find education reduces the …This paper examines whether education empowers women. We exploit an exogenous variation in education induced by a … outcome measures, we do not find evidence that education improves women's decision making authority within households, asset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259978
that inequality in education as measured by education Gini is negatively associated with average years schooling, implying … that higher education attainments are more likely to achieve equality in education. Moreover, a clear pattern on an … education Kuznets curve exists if standard deviation of schooling is used. Furthermore, gender gaps are related to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493594
goods expenditures, and clothing expenditures models using 10 different household survey data sets from Indonesia. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110134
The social impacts of Indonesia’s crisis, while serious, have fortunately been less dramatic than early reports … suggested. Rather than the universal devastation in poverty, employment, education and health so widely predicted and repeated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111339
to Indonesia and education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111543
A common narrative on Africa’s development process is that specific country policies of income growth and redistribution are necessary for poverty reduction. For growth theoreticians, economic growth must be pursued while for political economists, redistribution is necessary to cushion the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647276
This study empirically investigates the impact of not only economic opportunity but also the quality of life, including environmental dimensions, on net in-migration over the 1960-1968 period. Investment is treated as an investment decision. Using available data for the largest SMSAs in the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113361
trend review of population growth determinants between developing countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Mexico and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114111
This paper presents evidence of a positive but very small long run relationship between income growth and happiness, evidence that can disprove the Easterlin Paradox. However, the paper argues that there is actually reason to sustain the paradox because it finds the magnitude of the estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114375