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This paper reviews evidence that a greater education causes better outcomes in life, over and above the effects of … than just earnings-related) benefits of education, although studies which ignore these benefits might considerably … underestimate the total return from a additional year of education or an additional qualification. Research suggests that increased …
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in workers enjoy utility from their levels of education and consumption. Moreover, workerfs utility also depends on other … workerfs education levels, i.e., we assume the gkeeping up with Jonesesh effect in education. The main result of this study is … that such envy causes workers to make decisions on education level that differ from the decision made when envy is not …
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The productive and allocative theories predict that education has positive impact on health: the more educated adopt … positive correlation among education years, life styles, health outputs and functionalities. We however find confirmation for …
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municipalities to estimate the impact of government spending on education and health outcomes. We deal with the multi … of education outcomes, but this is not the case for health, and that spending on non-education programmes are also at … least as important. In addition, there appears to be scope for gains in economies of scale in the provision of education and …
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The role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in increasing the education and economic well-being of … rural Blacks is not, perhaps, as clear today as in the past given the abolition of formal segregation in public education … high concentrations of Blacks. Further, the impact of HBCUs in promoting college education among Blacks is above and beyond …
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This paper quantifies the benefits that accrue to children from having mothers who are literate. It does so by measuring the influence of literacy, after controiling for other factors,on the following indicators of child welfare: male and female infant deaths; male and female child deaths; male...
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significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among … young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty …
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significant effect of orphanhood on health. However, chronically poor children have worse health and education outcomes. Among … young children, the effect of maternal orphanhood on education is significantly more adverse than that of chronic poverty …
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This study extends the literature on the demand for child height to consider the demand for child micronutrient status. Micronutrient malnutrition is a pervasive and debilitating problem in many developing countries. A central focus concerns the distinct roles of maternal schooling versus...
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education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …
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