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, communities and children, including level of education and access to public services,. Public policy has a crucial role in …, particularly the education level of the mother or caregiver. In Peru, despite a dramatic increase in investment in health during … interaction of private assets, such as education, with public services, provided at the community and household level. The authors …
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achieving gender parity in many other dimensions of human development. The present study examines the state-wise pattern of … gender bias in child health in India. It uses 21 selected indicators of health outcome (e.g., post-neonatal death, child … Rule and Principal Component Analysis techniques. Children under age three years are the unit of the analysis. The study …
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This paper presents our findings on the structural relationship between household income and consumption expenditure in … housing-related items. About 11 percent of income is spent on education. The average propensity to consume is about 63 percent … per capita consumption expenditure. Distribution of income and expenditure over the households is mildly unequal as the …
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This paper presents theory and evidence to show that imperialism was a major factor impeding the spread of the industrial revolution during the century ending in the 1950s. Two empirical results stand out. First, analysis of historical evidence shows that most sovereign countries were...
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This study provides an analysis of access to public services of ethnic minority children. The main data sets are from a … sample of the Population and Housing Census 2009. It will provide analysis of ethnic minority children’s welfares including … education, health care services, living conditions and labor, nutrition and leisure. We found that although ethnic minority …
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Prenatal exposure to smoking and alcohol-use is found to be correlated with various adverse consequences for children … relationship between prenatal substance use and children’s behavior problems using data from the Children of the National … Longitudinal Survey (CNLSY). Specifically, we investigate whether prenatal cigarette use and alcohol-use affect children’s behavior …
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the first to present evidence that inequality of landownership had an adverse effect on the level of public education in … significant adverse effect of land inequality on education in Korea’s colonial period. …
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Education is an important pillar in the national economic development. It contributes to economic growth in varied … education plays a key role in the development after independence. This paper discusses educational growth and development in … post-independent Eritrea. It also analyses educational finances, and challenges for development in the country and thus …
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Most education around the globe is public. Moreover, investment rates in education as well as schooling attainments … education, and their general equilibrium effects. We calibrate the model to fit cross-country evidence on demographics and … mortality rates, explain most of the differences. We also use the model to the role of public education and the HIV …
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education developments that have occurred at the same time as the reform has been implemented. The EFL curriculum reform that I … between English language teaching and learning, curriculum, economic development and globalization. I have argued that … Games. Such phenomena have posed challenges for English language education as it has shifted its focus from traditional to …
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