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likelihoods are personal and household characteristics like gender and education of household heads. However, state … from the lowest levels of education to somewhat higher levels. The odds of making the transition to higher education …, especially tertiary education, are systematically lower for women than for men, for individuals in rural areas than those in …
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-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned …
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education events at the individual level. The model projects educational participation and attainment of the population over a … (transition probabilities) are assumed to be timeinvariant, that is, this scenario projects education level of the population on … schools; and reducing the number of state-funded places in higher education. …
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Although in an aging and shrinking society the education of the workforce becomes more and more important, in recent … the educational system as well as the participation in higher education (in particular of immigrants). In doing so, pre …-school education should be intensified, and low performers should get special offers at school and in vocational training. …
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The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of … direct and indirect (spillover) effects. Thus, the analysis suggests that a key way that English education purports to help …
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This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … of educational outcomes. It also surveys the broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the … current policies in the field of education in Bihar. Finally, it makes a case for several policy initiatives that should be …
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having a stronger impact on the incidence of financial distress than education or financial literacy. The results raise …
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and after the tax reform. We find that education plays a central role in reactions to the modified tax environment. Our …
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We investigate the causal effect of financial literacy on financial assets, exploiting banks information policies for identification. In Italy, banks who belong to the PattiChiari consortium have implemented policies aimed at increasing transparency and procedural simplification. These policies...
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This paper empirically investigates the relevance of social interaction and caste affiliation for individual awareness of financial instruments and investment behavior in India. The results of our empirical analysis, which is based on a large scale survey on saving patterns of Indians, suggest a...
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