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analyze whether state funding for higher education and K-12 education changed as a result of program implementation, and … the case: a difference-in-differences model and a synthetic control estimation strategy. We find robust evidence that … education, which was mostly offset through increases in local revenues by school districts. These results have important …
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). To achieve more and better employment (where “better” depends on such factors as rate of pay, job security, employment … protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors … interact, how unemployment is caused, and how employment can be improved. At the same time, drawing on practical experience …
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services they need to move up out of poverty. -- foreign assistance ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty ; developing …
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Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
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services they need to move up out of poverty. -- foreign assistance ; economic growth ; employment ; poverty ; developing …
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I examine the effect of student aid on the distribution of educational attainment in the context of a post-secondary funding program for Indigenous students in Canada. I show that student aid programs targeted at marginalized groups can increase average educational attainment; however, these...
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