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Do you get what you pay for with school-based health programs? Evidence from a child nutrition experiment in rural China
Sylvia, Sean; Luo, Renfu; Zhang, Linxiu; Shi, Yaojiang; … - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 1-12
This study uses a randomized controlled trial of a school-based anemia reduction program in rural China to examine how increased school emphasis on health promotion affects academic performance. Although education and health promotion are complementary functions of schools, they do compete for...
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The influence of price on school enrollment under Uganda's policy of free primary education
Lincove, Jane Arnold - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 799-811
price of school. Uganda's universal education policy offered free tuition, fees, and supplies to up to four children per …
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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core assumption underlying much of the recent literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of...
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The middle-income trap 2.0 : the increasing role of human capital in the age of automation and implications for developing Asia
Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2020 - Update March 2020
We modify the concept of the middle-income trap (MIT) against the background of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the (future) challenges of automation (creating the concept of the "MIT 2.0") and discuss the implications for developing Asia. In particular, we analyze the impacts of...
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Poverty and Development of Human Capital in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011
Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa which is a fact recognized by the international society. Political instability, civil wars and finally recent secession of its Southern part is another fact which may be taken as...
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The effect of social programs and exposure to professionals on the educational aspirations of the poor
Chiapa, Carlos; Garrido, José Luis; Prina, Silvia - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 778-798
aspire, which often results in underinvestment in their children's education. This paper studies the effect of a social … program on the educational aspirations poor parents have for their children, and explores the role of exposure to educated … Mexican antipoverty program PROGRESA raises the educational aspirations of beneficiary parents for their children of a third …
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Brain drain in globalization : a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective
Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
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Human as Capital : An Imperative for Africa
Akpa, Emeka - 2019
This study established the imperative for treating the human being in Africa as ‘human capital' and showing that countries that invested more in human capital development had better economic and human development prospects than the countries that do not. Using comparative analysis, it was...
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Employment and development in Asia
Hoeven, Rolph van der - 2018
How have economic development, employment, and labour markets in Asian countries interacted since the publication of Myrdal's Asian Drama? Myrdal rejected, the western approach to and definition of employment and emphasized the role of "informal" employment, but he underestimated the effects of...
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Informality and overeducation in the labor market of a developing country
Herrera-Idárraga, Paula; López-Bazo, Enrique; … - Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) - 2012
In this paper, we explore the connection between labor market segmentation in two sectors, a modern protected formal sector and a traditional- unprotected-informal sector, and overeducation in a developing country. Informality is thought to have negative consequences, primarily through poorer...
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