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The unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in Brazil

Barreto, Yuri; Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho - 2022

This paper studies the unintended long-run effects of a permanent agricultural shock led by agro-terrorism in Brazil on the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most important cocoa production region until 1989, the southeast of...

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The long(er)-term impacts of Chile Solidario on human capital and labour income

Neidhöfer, Guido; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017

This paper examines Chile Solidario, a social protection programme that provides poor households in Chile with preferential access to a conditional cash transfer programme designed to facilitate investments in children's health and education. We assess the programme's longer-term impact on...

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Education, skill, and earnings : further evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles Komla Delali; Turkson, … - 2014

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education more than triples from primary to secondary level or...

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Long-term effects of land reform on human capital accumulation : evidence from West Bengal

Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing; Yadav, Vandana - 2011

We use data on inter-generational gains in educational attainment by some 500,000 individuals in 200 West Bengal villages to explore gender-differentiated impacts of land reform on human capital accumulation at the individual level. While there are significant gains (of about 0.3 years for...

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The legacy of conflict : aggregate evidence from Sierre Leone

Hönig, Tillman - 2021

This paper studies the general equilibrium impact of civil war in Sierra Leone. I first use an instrumental variable (IV) strategy and geographic conflict variation to estimate reduced-form effects. I show that civil war leads to affected areas having a higher share of workers in agriculture,...

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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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Employment and development in Asia

Hoeven, Rolph van der - 2018

How have economic development, employment, and labour markets in Asian countries interacted since the publication of Myrdal's Asian Drama? Myrdal rejected, the western approach to and definition of employment and emphasized the role of "informal" employment, but he underestimated the effects 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 …-added models are found to bias the learning premium upward. An instrumental variable model confirms a positive causal learning … premium. Subjectspecific learning premiums for Kiswahili, English, and mathematics are 0.28, 0.39, and 0.50 standard …

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Growth and inequality convergence : the role of environmentally related impacts on human capital

Mensah, Angela Cindy Emefa; Barbier, Edward - 2022

We examine inequality convergence over the past three decades and ask if environmentally related impacts on health, and their effect on human capital, are responsible for the slow rate of inequality reduction in countries. Though higher initial incidence of environmentally related impacts on...

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Inequality and human development : the role of different parts of the income distribution

Castells-Quintana, David; Gradín, Carlos; Royuela, Vicente - 2022

In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential effect associated with the concentration of national income at different parts of the income distribution. To do so, we rely on a large global panel of countries over the last...

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