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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality

Lamanna, Francesca - 2013

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Abington, Casey - 2010

The first essay examines the allocation of education spending. Human capital investment in early childhood can lead to …, government education spending is allocated disproportionately toward late childhood and young adulthood. The consequences of a … education. Taking as given the higher returns to early investment, the modelshows the current allocation may nonetheless be …

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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975

Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980

This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of modernization of the region: defined as economic development and social and cultural change. The intermediate variables (Davis and Blake, 1965) underlying these regional levels and...

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Fertility transition in England and Wales: continuity and change

Friedlander, Dov; Okun, Barbara S - 1996

The focus of this paper is whether the transition from high to low fertility reveals continuity or discontinuity with the past. Our analyses of districts of England and Wales over time reveal an overall picture of continuity. Specifically, we show that (1) a substantial proportion of districts...

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The Fertility Transition: Economic Explanations

Schultz, T. Paul - 2001

, which have encouraged women to obtain more education and facilitated the rise in womens wages relative to mens. The …

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Two Statistical Problems in the Princeton Project on the European Fertility Transition

Brown, John C.; Guinnane, Timothy W. - 2003

The Princeton Project on the Decline of Fertility in Europe (or European Fertility Project, hereafter EFP) was carried out at Princeton University's Office of Population Research in the 1960s and 1970s. This project aimed to characterize the decline of fertility that took place in Europe during...

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Changing petroleum engineering education to meet industry demand

Department of Petroleum Engineering

The Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University had its inception in 1998. For the last 10 years,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during...

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Predictors and purchase intentions of counterfeits of luxury branded products

Phau, Ian - 2010

This paper extends two related studies in counterfeiting by Tom et al. (1998) on consumer attitudes toward, and purchase history of counterfeit goods and Cordell et al. (1996) on investigating the extrinsic cues brand, price and retailer influencing consumption of counterfeits. The three main...

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A conceptual investigation into brand mimicry in the luxury brand industry

Huimin, Teah; Phau, Ian - 2010

Copying, imitation, counterfeiting and knock-offs have been considered to be detrimental to the global economy and to innovation. While Mimicry has been applied to various areas of sciences such as engineering, biomimetics and behavioural sciences or even in areas of Management, it is however...

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Conceptualising the mediating role of inferences of manipulative intent between consumer skepticism and product judgment

Tien, Cheryl; Phau, Ian - 2010

This paper proposes a research framework on the antecedents of consumers' skepticism toward advertising and its related outcome variables; including inferences of manipulative intent, attitudes toward the advertisement and product judgment. The scope of the study will be limited to the industry...

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