The relationship between human capital development and urbanization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is explored … reside in urban areas and in large cities, and the returns to education are significantly higher in urban areas relative to … returns to education in urban areas are at least comparable to the magnitude of private returns. Rural areas are the major …

presented. The key finding is that both preservice education and in-service training are positively correlated with labor … productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education … that competitiveness is enhanced both by raising the general level of education in the workforce and by encouraging …

We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the … United States at the onset of formal education. Our identification strategy rests on the assumption that, conditional on … covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …

This paper studies the impact of migrant children on their parents' occupation choice and wage income using a dataset … from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn … characteristics, migration duration, origin location, and family structure. Households migrating with school-age children have a …

construction and household-level toilet subsidy programs in rural People's Republic of China (PRC) on children's education, health … significantly reduced maternal-child education persistence, while improving the upward education mobility of exposed children. Our … years after its implementation. Effects on education are larger for girls than for boys, and for toilet subsidy programs. On …

Very few studies have examined the impacts of both climate change and air pollution on student education outcomes …

Informal eldercare is often supplied by family members, more so in Asia than in the West. Children and their parents as … children of the needy elderly can possibly give to their spouses. A second implication discussed here is that the provision of … Western countries and between two Indian regions. Daughters-in-law in the rural North of India provide more eldercare than …

gender disaggregated human development survey in India (2005-2012) and carry out econometric analyses using individual fixed … children's health and education outcomes improve. Our study recommends evaluating the social demand curve for a piped water … diarrhea, and children's absence from school. Among others, the results show that a 0.1% increase in village access to IPDW …

(e.g., India, Nepal, and Pakistan), in regional development (e.g., the Philippines) and the large urban-rural gap (e … poverty gap, which is as high as 50 percentage points or more in some specific cases in Nepal, Pakistan, or India. The gap in … factors that contribute to ethnic disadvantaged groups being poorer are the strongly persistent high inequalities in education …

how ocean tourism and economic development intertwine in archipelagic nations, examining national statistical data on … tourism and economic development in the Philippines over the last several years. Furthermore, it discusses the policy … landscape and identifies the enabling and disabling factors for the development of ocean tourism in the Philippines. It …