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enhancing female education and reducing gender education inequality on various measures of sustainable development. After … addressing the endogeneity issue associated with gender education inequality employing a novel instrumental variable (IV), we … find mitigating gender education inequality to be associated with lower infant mortality and poverty rates and improvements …
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The total return to higher education is the rate of return based on earnings plus non-monetary private and social … benefits beyond earnings that captures higher education's contribution to development.A theory of endogenous development offers … a new scholarly contribution where firm and household production with education externalities and the endogeneity of new …
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We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel … initial phase in which no social class invests in higher education of their children, such that the evolution of inequality is … education of their children, which partially crowds out bequests and thereby reduces inequality in the short run. The better …
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We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel … initial phase in which no social class invests in higher education of their children such that inequality is driven by … bequests. Once a certain income threshold is surpassed, the rich start to invest in higher education of their children, which …
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on economic growth, inequality, and fiscal balance. Our empirical evidence suggests that human capital investments have a …
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of education inequality measures across age groups allows us to assess the effect of inter-generational education …We construct a new dataset of inequality in educational attainment by age and sex at the global level. The comparison … attainment trends on economic growth. Our results indicate that countries which are able to reduce the inequality of educational …
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We conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of the empirical literature on the impact of gender inequality in … education on per capita economic growth, including cross-country, time series, and sub-national growth regressions. Studies … using male and female education as separate covariates show a larger effect of female than male education on growth, except …
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Education and training are a high priority for Costa Rica that devotes to them more than 6.5% of GDP, one of the … spending in education to better support growth and equity. There is a fundamental need to improve the quality of early and … general basic education to avoid that too many Costa Ricans leave education too early and without the skills needed to find a …
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This paper examines the impact of education on economic growth in Greece over the period 1981 - 2009 by applying the …
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This paper examines the impact of education on economic growth in Greece over the period 1981 – 2009 by applying the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255261