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herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While … industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also … influence the urbanization process. In fact, the relationship between industrialization and urbanization is absent in Sub …
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The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses - the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …
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This study investigates the degree to which the association of height and earnings in Pakistan is independent of other cognitive and socioemotional skills. While taller workers are regularly observed to earn more, they commonly have higher cognitive ability. Thus, there is debate concerning the...
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Inadequacies in Tanzania's education and training systems compromise the quality of workforce skills, giving rise to … these concerns using data from a unique Enterprise Skills Survey that asked Tanzanian employers about the education … productive; it found no impact, however, from secondary education and technical vocational education and training qualifications …
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A textbook provision program in Sierra Leone demonstrates how volatility in the flow of government-provided learning inputs to schools can induce storage of these inputs by school administrators to smooth future consumption. This process in turn leads to low current utilization of inputs for...
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with the Minister of Education and with children enrich the multivariate regression results. The multiple sources of child … labor appear to include, in particular, the structure of the economy, social norms and no returns to rural basic education … children's education and later opportunities …
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cohort, survey date, and district to estimate the impact of the insurgency on education outcomes. Overall conflict intensity …
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education, the larger on average are the wage premiums for those who work for foreign firms. Third, longer hours of work in …
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All-weather rural roads usually improve not only villagers' terms of trade, but also their educational attainments and health. Obtaining empirical estimates of the benefits generated by the first is straightforward, not so those generated by the others. The object of this paper is to estimate...
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This paper analyzes the effects of all-weather rural roads on households' net output prices, education and health in a … health and education at least as highly as the' commercial' ones …
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