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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes

Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in … Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This … the effects of language of instruction on reading skills and early labour market outcomes. The results indicate that the …

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What drives parental investments in early childhood? : experimental evidence from a video intervention in Rwanda

Justino, Patricia; Leone, Marinella; Rolla, Pierfrancesco; … - 2023

This paper investigates the causal impact of a randomized video intervention designed to study the determinants of parental time investments in early childhood among low-income parents. We designed and screened a video that provided information and conveyed persuasive messages about the...

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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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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

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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Subjective returns to education : rational expectations of disadvantaged groups in India

Balasubramanian, Pooja - 2020

This study uses data collected from school students in Mumbai to investigate how they perceive subjective expected returns for different levels of education in an environment that includes labour market discrimination. We are particularly keen to observe subjective returns to education for...

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Skills, personality traits, and gender wage gaps : evidence from Bangladesh

Nordman, Christophe J.; Sarr, Leopold R.; Sharma, Smriti - 2018

We use a recent first-hand linked employer-employee survey covering the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive attainment and personality traits. Our results show that cognitive skills have greater explanatory power than personality...

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Public and private expenditures on human capital accumulation in India

Ghate, Chetan; Glomm, Gerhard; Stone, John T. - 2015

We study a model of human capital driven growth, where the parent's human capital serves as a productive input in the child's human capital production only when that of the former exceeds a minimum level required to intellectually contribute to the child's learning. Private and public...

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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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Gender, age cohort, and household investment in child schooling : new evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael; Barimah, Alfred; … - 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa continues to post one of the highest gender gaps in educational outcomes in the world. Gender gaps in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys and girls. In this paper, we interrogate this issue using...

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