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through schooling. Educated individuals are interested in dialogue and conversation. Interaction enables people to build trust … schooling and/or social inclusion. Creation of human and social capital is the basis for inclusive growth. The predictions of …
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accumulation of schooling among children and adolescents. Methodologically, the investigation had two stages. The first one, based … on national household survey data, analyzed the evolution and trends of child labor and schooling during recent years …
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This paper investigates the presence of a network externality which might explain the persistence of low schooling … networks. We test empirically whether young migrants�schooling decisions are affected by the presence of covillagers at … the propensity of young migrants to pursue schooling while in the city. This fi�nding suggests that policies seeking to …
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This extended data appendix describes the sources and methods used to construct the data used in our paper "Economic Growth in the Long Run."
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Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. To identify the treatment effect, it takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary...
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This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of education inequality. The econometrics indicate that a higher level of human capital and the relative dispersion of human capital have a disequalizing relationship with income...
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Child labour is in focus for last two decades as it robs children of the chance to enhance human capital. This paper … children in 2003-04, about 13 percent of total, are ‘Nowhere Children’. Incidence of Domestic Duties and Nowhere Children are … drive the children to the labour market. Lack of Educational infrastructure is found to be very important in this respect …
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through higher returns from their children’s work. …
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children? This paper presents some results of a survey in Nepal conducted to analyze which factors determine the probability of … labeling, on the incidence of child labor and child schooling. Data were obtained from interviews with 410 households of … Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The results of the econometric analysis show that the probability of child labor (i) decreases if the …
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The paper examines the linkages between child work and both school attendance and school attainment of children aged 5 … child’s time input in schooling; then it measures the “schooling-for-age” as a learning achievement or schooling outcome …. The results from the logistic regressions show that school attendance and grade attainment are lower for children who are …
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