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Aging and economic opportunities : major world regions around the turn of the century ; background paper for the Economic and Social Progress Report 2000
Behrman, Jere R.; Duryea, Suzanne; Székely, Miguel - 1999
expenditures on education and health; and (3) social indicators (inequality, unemployment, homicide rates, and schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541352
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Aging and economic opportunities : major world regions around the turn of the century
Behrman, Jere R.; Duryea, Suzanne; Székely, Miguel - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001427970
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Resilience, accelerated aging, and persistently poor health : diverse trajectories of health in Malawi
Hoang, Cung Truong; Kohler, Iliana V.; Amin, Vikesh; … - In: Population and development review 49 (2023) 4, pp. 771-800
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480983
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Intergenerational mobility in Latin America : deeper markets and better schools make a difference
Behrman, Jere R.; Birdsall, Nancy; Székely, Miguel - In: New markets, new opportunities? : Economic and social …, (pp. 135-168). 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001566320
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Chapter 73. Investment in EducationInputs and Incentives
Behrman, Jere R. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4883-4975). 2010
From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025729
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Genetic risks, adolescent health and schooling attainment
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2020
We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)) on schooling attainment using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239296
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What determines adult cognitive skills? : influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-32
Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, we find that: (1) School attainment has a significant and substantial effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254285
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Genetic risks, adolescent health and schooling attainment
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299208
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Genetic risks, adolescent health and schooling attainment
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245066
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Late-childhood foundational cognitive skills predict educational outcomes through adolescence and into young adulthood : evidence from Ethiopia and Peru
Lopez, Jennifer; Behrman, Jere R.; Cueto, Santiago; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013384815