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The present study explores the historical sources of educational deprivation of children in Telangana region of the Andhra Pradesh during its pre-independence period. Telangana was part of Nizam’s Hyderabad state prior to independence and later independent Hyderbad state until it was unified...
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Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
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Using household survey data for Albania, this study compare decision-making about human capital investment in remittance-receiving households and non-remittance-receiving households. The Cox proportional hazard model is used to capture the effects of remittances. The crucial assumption in the...
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Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right’ of the citizens of a nation. Elementary Education system … all children under coverage of Elementary Education, which sadly has not been possible yet in India. Policy makers have … responded through various programs – two latest examples of which are the Sarva Shikhsa Mission and the Right to Education Bill …
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This study has explored the impact of the rise in food prices on the education of children in the poor and vulnerable … other non-rice food items or/and by reducing the non-food expenditure, i.e., expenses on their children education. High … the households could not continue to bear the expenses on their children’s education. A significant proportion of these …
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Using a panel of international student test scores 1980 – 2000 (PISA and TIMSS), panel fixed effects estimates suggest that government spending decentralization is conducive to student performance. The effect does not appear to be mediated through levels of educational spending.
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This paper investigates the impact of language on economic performance. I use the 1956 reorganization of Indian states on linguistic lines as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of speaking the majority language on educational and occupational outcomes. I find that districts that spoke...
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, expenditure on education and training are recorded as human capital formation. This includes not only the expenditure on primary …, secondary and tertiary education, but also expenditure on training and courses by employers and the earnings foregone by … part of final consumption expenditure. The satellite shows more comprehensively than OECD Education at a Glance who pays …
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The effect of education on wages has been a widely explored topic. This paper will contribute to the existing … literature by studying the causal effect of education on wages in China, a context which has been far less studied. China …'s compulsory education laws and minimum age labor laws provide potentially exogenous changes in educational attainment. The first …
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This paper documents the changes in the ability distribution of individuals entering the teaching profession among individuals born between 1957-1964 and 1980-1984. This is done using the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and a constructed Armed Force Qualifying...
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