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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388740
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241371
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The Utilization-adjusted Human Capital Index (UHCI) : background paper the Human Capital Index 2020 update
Pennings, Steven - 2020
The World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI) is based on the productivity gains of future workers from human capital accumulation. But in many developing countries, a sizeable fraction of people are not employed, or are in jobs in which they cannot fully use their skills and cognitive abilities to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296855
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Measuring human capital in Europe and Central Asia
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Torre, Iván - 2020
This paper outlines an extension of the Human Capital Index that addresses the specific challenges in education and … health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand … by adding a measure of quality-adjusted years of higher education to the original education component, and it includes …
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Estimating the causal effects of conflict on education in Côte d'Ivoire
Dabalen, Andrew L.; Paul, Saumik - 2012
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The learning challenge in the 21st century
Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240539
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The lost human capital : teacher knowledge and student achievement in Africa
Bold, Tessa; Filmer, Deon; Molina, Ezequiel; Svensson, Jakob - 2019
-size effects. Ensuring that all incoming teachers have the officially mandated effective years of education, along with increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022369
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Global data set on education quality (1965-2015)
Altinok, Nadir; Angrist, Noam; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2018
This paper presents the largest globally comparable panel database of education quality. The database includes 163 …-the countries that have the most to gain from the potential benefits of a high-quality education; (3) the data set contains credible … global progress on education quality, as well as to uncover potential drivers of education quality, growth, and development …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121130
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Migration and remittances in the Former Soviet Union countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus : what are the long-term macroeconomic consequences?
Brownbridge, Martin; Canagarajah, Sudharshan - 2020
Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as measured by the Human Capital Index, than is typical...
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