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It is commonly believed that China began the socialist era as a very under-urbanized country relative to its level of development and that it has been eliminating this urbanization gap during the post-1978 period as a result of its economic reforms. Our reexamination of the relationship between...
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This study examines disparities in health and nutrition among native and Syrian-refugee children in Turkey. With a view toward understanding the need for targeted programs addressing child well-being among the refugee population, we analyze, in particular, the Turkey Demographic and Health...
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This paper focuses on migration between Australia and New Zealand, which has exhibited a strong, but cyclical, net movement towards Australia since the late 1960s. A long-term historical perspective is taken. Trans-Tasman migration is also compared with inter-island migration within New Zealand....
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Research indicates that education quality - measured by test scores in international student surveys - predicts …
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This paper surveys the empirical and theoretical link between education and growth in the growth process of Asian … countries. Particular attention is paid to the link between education and productivity, and to models that characterize key … education. …
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failures. Policy makers should improve access to and quality of health, education, and other social services. This means better …
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Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
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experiments show that using means-tested education subsidies is the most cost-effective single policy option. However, for longer … time horizons, or as the economy gets closer to the poverty trap threshold, combining means-tested education and wage …
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