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education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in developing counties since 1960, but many children … of education and other policies on the quantity and quality of education obtained by children in developing countries …
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Education is associated with a range of positive micro and macro effects. It is hence no surprise that donors have … recently increased the amount of official development aid specifically focused on restoring and maintaining education in less … geographical proximity to aid projects by combining individual-level information on education from six Nigerian Demographic and …
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Due primarily to the difficulty of obtaining ideal data, much remains unknown about how college majors are determined. We take advantage of longitudinal expectations data from the Berea Panel Study to provide new evidence about this issue, paying particular attention to the choice of whether to...
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Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...
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This study deals with educational production in Austria and is focused on the potential impact of schoolmates on students' academic outcomes. We used PISA 2000 data to estimate peer effects for 15 and 16 year old students. The estimations yield substantial positive effects of the peer groups'...
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education to decide on the optimal amount of education they want to invest in. In an extension of the model, the educational …
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. Household wealth, captured via an asset index, is found to have a signi?cant impact on education as well, supporting the idea …
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ability, and the choice of education is determined endogenously. Job opportunities in an informal sector are available only to … workers who choose not to acquire higher education. We find that increased punishment of informal activities increases the …
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