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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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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

This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth drivers follow their historical or recent...

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Human capital and macro-economic development : a review of the evidence

Rossi, Federico - 2018

This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of human capital for macro-economic development. Through the lens of a simple aggregate production function, human capital might increase output per capita by directly entering in the production process, incentivising the accumulation of...

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Big sisters

Jakiela, Pamela; Ozier, Owen; Fernald, Lia C. H.; … - 2020

This paper models household investments in young children when parents and older siblings share caregiving responsibilities and when investments by older siblings contribute to young children's human capital accumulation. To test the predictions of the model, the paper estimates the impact of...

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Natural disasters and the dynamics of intangible assets

López, Ramón - 2009

equilibrium ramifications of subsistence traps are developed. The main issue is that the economy may be subject to hysteresis: A … temporary shock such as a natural disaster may leave permanent consequences for the economy. An obvious permanent effect of a … incentives to invest in human capital and may even propel a formerly stagnating economy into a virtuous path of continuing growth …

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Is migration a good substitute for education subsidies?

Docquier, Frédéric (contributor); … - 2008

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Making education in China equitable and efficient

Hossain, Shaikh I. - 1997

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Intervening at home and then at school : a randomized evaluation of two approaches to improve early educational outcomes in Tonga

Macdonald, Kevin; Brinkman, Sally; Jarvie, Wendy; … - 2018

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Investing in human capital : what can we learn from the World Bank's portfolio data?

Gatti, Roberta; Mohpal, Aakash - 2019

This paper compiles project-level data from the World Bank's lending history to describe patterns and the composition of its portfolio. The paper focuses particularly on the effect of countries' transition from International Development Association to International Bank for Reconstruction and...

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Returns to investment in education : the case of Turkey

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Psacharopoulos, George; … - 2019

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education by three years as an instrument. This results in a...

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