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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings
Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020
Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
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Wages and productivity in Mexican manufacturing
López Acevedo, Gladys - 2003
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World Bank project-financed research on population, health, and nutrition
Gittinger, James P.; Bradford, Carol - 1992
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A socioeconomic disaggregation of the World Bank Human Capital Index
D'Souza, Ritika; Gatti, Roberta; Kraay, Aart - 2019
This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital … the expected future human capital of children born today, following the methodology of the World Bank Human Capital Index …
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Comparable estimates of returns to schooling around the world
Montenegro, Claudio; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2014
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The mechanics of progress in education
Mingat, Alain; Tan, Jee-Peng - 1998
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Malaysia's economic growth and transition to high income : an application of the World Bank Long Term Growth Model (LTGM)
Devadas, Sharmila; Guzman, Jorge; Kim, Young Eun; … - 2020
drivers follow their historical or recent trends, and under different scenarios of reform, using the World Bank Long … capital and slowing growth rates of total factor productivity and human capital. Strong reforms are required for Malaysia to …, and total factor productivity. In the strong reform scenario, based on growth drivers achieving a target corresponding to …
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Productivity of public spending, sectoral allocation choices, and economic growth
Baffes, John; Shah, Anwar - 1993
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The effect of increasing human capital investment on economic growth and poverty : a simulation exercise : background paper to the 2019 World Development Report
Collin, Matthew; Weil, David N. - 2018
the 75th percentile of what was observed in the data. In the former, world GDP per capita is 5 percent higher than …, world GDP per capita is 12 percent higher than baseline in 2050, while the rate of USD 1.90 poverty drops by 1.4 percentage …
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What makes cities healthy?
Yusuf, Shahid; Nabeshima, Kaoru; Ha, Wei - 2007
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