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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings

Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020

paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of …

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What determines the size of public employment? : an empirical investigation

Herrera Aguilera, Santiago; Muñoz S., Ercio - 2019

This paper explores the determinants of public employment across the world and finds that it is negatively associated with country size (by population) and positively associated with the income level. The findings show that a country's openness to trade is positively associated with public...

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Effects of public sector wages on corruption : wage inequality matters

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Lokshin, Michael; Kolchin, Vladimir - Weltbankgruppe - 2021

The paper uses a new country-level, panel data set to study the effect of public sector wages on corruption. The results show that wage inequality in the public sector is an important determinant of the effectiveness of anti-corruption policies. Increasing the wages of public officials could...

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Child nutrition, child health, and school enrollment : a longitudinal analysis

Alderman, Harold; Behrman, Jere R.; Lavy, Victor; … - 1997

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Labor supply responses to health shocks : evidence from high-frequency labor market data from urban Ghana

Heath, Rachel; Mansuri, Ghazala; Rijkers, Bob - 2019

Workers in developing countries are subject to frequent health shocks. Using 10 weeks of high-frequency labor market data that were collected in urban Ghana, this paper documents that men are 9 percentage points more likely to work in weeks in which another worker in the household is...

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Why should we care about child labor? : The education, labor market, and health consequences of child labor

Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Gatti, Roberta - 2005

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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020

intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections …

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Returns to education in Azerbaijan : some new estimates

Garcia Moreno, Vicente; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2020

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan … Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns … controlling for selection. In addition, the paper estimates the returns for higher education; for this level, the rate of return …

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