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We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...
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greater inequality. To investigate this we construct a dynamic model of intergenerational education acquisition, fertility … fertility and education, a decreasing marginal effect of parental education on children's years of education, and wages that are …
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-economic effects in terms of living standards, education, health, and gender equality, which appear to be unprecedented in depth and …
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ability to perform complex tasks. The data suggests that the sorting effect of education is an important determinant of …
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A structural model of the demand for college attendance is derived from the theory of comparative advantage and recent statistical models of self-selection and unobserved components. Estimates from NBER-Thorndike data strongly support the theory. First, expected lifetime earnings gains influence...
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It can be claimed that education is simply a normal consumption good and that like all other normal goods, an increase …
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Section I introduces the material. In section II a model is developed which explores the impact of input-quality uncertainty on factor demand from which is derived a rationale for the use of devices which segment the population into classes differing in their "skill" distribution parameters. The...
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between education and allocative efficiency. Section I is reprinted from my J.P.E. paper "Education in Production". Section II …
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institutional structure to attitudes such as trust, individualism, and nepotism. Using data from Turkey and leveraging an education …
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models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the … interdependence between health and education. In particular, the estimated model indicates that an individual's education, health …'s education by 1.4 years. Policy experiments indicate that a health expenditure subsidy would have a larger impact on educational …
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