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Public and private expenditures on human capital accumulation in India
Ghate, Chetan; Glomm, Gerhard; Stone, John T. - 2015
to the child's learning. Private and public expenditures on education enter in the child's human capital production … revenues and spends these revenues on public education. We simulate the model to a state in India and experimentally increase … public education spending through various tax instruments. We find: (i) large changes in education funding have very small …
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Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in India
Weide, Roy van der; Vigh, Melinda - 2018
Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are influenced less by the individual’s parents and...
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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa
Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019
This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...
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Private beats public : a flexible value-added model with Tanzanian school switchers
Brandt, Kasper - 2018
This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both their primary and lower secondary school exam records,...
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Institutional differences across resource-based economies
Teksoz, Utku; Kalcheva, Katerina - 2016
To predict economic success and failure, academics and policymakers alike are interested in the differences in institutional structures across natural resource-based economies. This paper uses a political economy framework to examine the effect of institutional variables on per capita...
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In praise of snapshots
Kanbur, Ravi - 2019
opportunity by increasing mobility through such policies as equal provision of public education. This paper argues that this …
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Links between foreign direct investment and human capital formation : evidence from the manufacturing sector in India
Baranwal, Gunja - 2016
This paper is related to the literature on the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the labour market of host countries. Labour market literature has focused on the demand side of FDI; that is, increasing wage inequality by demanding more skilled workers or just increasing the overall...
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The long(er)-term impacts of Chile Solidario on human capital and labour income
Neidhöfer, Guido; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017
preferential access to a conditional cash transfer programme designed to facilitate investments in children's health and education … children, but is positive and significant for women without children. The effects on both education and labour income are …
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Entrepreneurship and human capital development in children
Brandt, Kasper; Rutasitara, Longinus; Selejio, Onesmo; … - 2017
This paper explores the link between entrepreneurship and child human capital development. We specifically examine how operating a non-farm enterprise (NFE) as opposed to working in agriculture relates to child labour and schooling outcomes. Accounting for timeinvariant unobservable...
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Threshold and interaction effects in the trade, growth, and inequality relationship
Leyaro, Vincent - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as inequality can be considered a proxy for 'governance...
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