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economics' from principal agent models and contract theory. In particular, many education systems attempt to manage teaching and …. 1977; Boli et al. 1985; Meyer et al. 1997). That is, the field (in the sense of Bourdieu 1993) of global education has …, measured in any way). I conclude with a comparison in India of the national governments recent efforts in basic education which …
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education. In the pursuit of this aim, the extension of access to primary education was achieved relatively successfully, given … management, as being factors with a major influence on the poor quality of education in primary schools. …
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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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unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both …
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performance assessment frameworks in the context of education sector budget support delivered to a sample of 17 Sub …
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growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence … from recent in-depth country work on the impact of government policies and service provision in health and basic education … address these coordination disincentives. -- aid effectiveness ; health ; education ; coordination ; political economy …
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, and its effect on education quality. Using Indonesia Family Life Survey data, we exploit as exogenous rule the variation …
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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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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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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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