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Women Count: Gender (in-)equalities in the human capital development in Asia, 1900-60
Friesen, Julia; Baten, Jörg; Prayon, Valeria - 2012
-heaping method. We place special emphasis on the gender gap in numeracy and its determinants. In particular, we test the validity of … a U-hypothesis of gender equality, implying that gender equality in numeracy declines at initial stages of development … and increases again with higher numeracy levels. The U-shaped pattern is strongly confirmed by our data. …
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Human capital in Chile : the development of numeracy during the last 250 years
Llorca-Jaña, Manuel; Rivas, Javier; Pérez, Ignacio; … - In: Economic history of developing regions 37 (2022) 3, pp. 227-256
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Education economics from a historical perspective
Schüler, Ruth M. - 2018
The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects prosperity and nation building in a setting of...
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Early Literacy Achievements, Population Density and the Transition to Modern Growth
Boucekkine, Raouf - 2007
The transition from economic stagnation to sustained growth is often modelled thanks to population-induced productivity …
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704643
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The long(er)-term impacts of Chile Solidario on human capital and labour income
Neidhöfer, Guido; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017
This paper examines Chile Solidario, a social protection programme that provides poor households in Chile with preferential access to a conditional cash transfer programme designed to facilitate investments in children's health and education. We assess the programme's longer-term impact on...
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Chapter 73. Investment in EducationInputs and Incentives
Behrman, Jere R. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4883-4975). 2010
From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through, but is not limited to, formal educational activities such...
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Lowering barriers to remote education : experimental impacts on parental responses and learning
Beam, Emily A.; Mukherjee, Priya; Navarro-Sola, Laia - 2022
We conduct a randomized controlled trial with households of secondary school students in Bangladesh to investigate how parents adjust their investments in response to three educational interventions: an informational campaign about an educational phone application, an internet data subsidy, and...
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The role of human capital and innovation in Prussian economic development
Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - 2013
By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level information on literacy and income tax revenues we show that increases in the stock of human capital not only improved workers ́productivity but also accelerated innovative...
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