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The main objective of this paper was to visualize the relation between government spending on basic education and the … human capital accumulation process, observing the impacts of this spending on individual investments in higher education …, and on economic growth. From the results obtained, we may reach the central conclusion that basic education affects agents …
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Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level …: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the … rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of higher education opportunities, systemic reform remains stubbornly …
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because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …
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This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …
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While leveraging parents has the potential to increase student performance, programs that do so are often costly to implement or they target younger children. We partner text-messaging technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of information to parents at...
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the "latitude gradient"...
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It is a well known fact that economic development and distance to the equator are positively correlated variables in the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present paper provides a theory of why the “latitude gradient”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011617886
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Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to … reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education … and complex impacts through various channels: a direct increase in the private costs of higher education, a reduction in …
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