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Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth
Strulik, Holger - 2015
We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009852
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Experimental evidence from an integrated early childhood parenting program in Sierra Leone
Chandra, Anjali; Mani, Subha; Dolphin, Heather; Dyson, … - 2021
We present findings from an integrated early childhood parenting program on stunting and wasting in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Importantly, where half the communities were randomly assigned to receive the parenting program and the remaining half served as a control that received standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419151
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Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2014
high growth are phenomena of the modern period. In order to explain these phenomena we propose an innovation-driven growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146209
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Labor mobility and innovation in Africa
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … products/services or process, supporting the use of labor mobility as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805095
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Innovation in Africa : Why Institutions Matter
Oluwatobi, Stephen; Efobi, Uchenna; Olurinola, Oluranti; … - 2014
Given the role that innovation plays as an engine for economic development, we examined the enabling factor of … innovation. A sample of 40 African countries over the period 1996-2012 was employed; and our baseline equation was estimated … effectiveness and regulatory quality are two institutional measures that have the most equivalent impact on innovation. This result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144266
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Labor Mobility and Innovation in Africa
Mbaye, Linguère; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … products/services or process, supporting the use of labor mobility as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030837
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Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - 2014
This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that determine inequality change, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249771
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Nowcasting the impact of COVID-19 on education, intergenerational mobility and earnings inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 2022 - This version: June 2022
Using microsimulations, we nowcast the impact of learning losses caused by COVID-19 on secondary school completion rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275358
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Inclusive Growth : An Application of the Social Opportunity Function to Selected African Countries
Adedeji, Olumuyiwa - 2014
The inclusiveness of growth depends on the extent of access to economic and social opportunities. This paper applies the concept of social opportunity function to ascertain the inclusiveness of growth episodes in selected African countries. Premised on the concept of social welfare function,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063648
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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa
Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019
This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102991