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Social Sector Development in South West Bengal

Majumder, Rajarshi; Ray, Jhilam; Sen, Anindita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...

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Empowering youth : the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador

Aguirre, Kamila; Carrión-Yaguana, Vanessa D. - 2023

This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically … examining its implementation in schools. The inclusion of sex education as a mandatory cross-cutting theme in the updated and … education. Using a difference-in-differences model, the study finds that the provision of comprehensive sex education in schools …

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Climate changes affect human capital

Caruso, Germán; De Marcos, Inés; Noy, Ilan - 2023

Climate change severely impacts critical facets of human capital across the life cycle. This is particularly alarming as both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather shocks continue to increase, and extremes appear to be the main channel of causality. At the same time, human capital has a...

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On the Concept of Equity in Opportunity

Son, Hyun H. - 2011

changes in the opportunities for health care and education in the Philippines from 1998 to 2007. …

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On the Concept of Equity in Opportunity

Son, Hyun H. - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2011

changes in the opportunities for health care and education in the Philippines from 1998 to 2007. …

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On the concept of equity in opportunity

Son, Hyun H. - 2011

changes in the opportunities for health care and education in the Philippines from 1998 to 2007. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379832

Education, paludisme et moustiquaires imprégnées d'insecticide en Afrique sub-saharienne

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

education. The analysis is based on a panel sample of 41 countries of sub-Saharan African over the period 2001-2006. Our results … suggest that cover of insecticide-treated mosquito net positivelyaffect the indicators of education. Cet articles’intéresse à … la relation entre la couverture en moustiquaires imprégnées d’insecticide et quelquesindicateurs d’éducation. L’étude est …

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Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings : evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2016

We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using purposively digitised birth registers linked to school catalogues, census files and tax records to generate longitudinal microdata that track individuals through five stages of the...

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Infant health, cognitive performance and earnings : evidence from inception of the welfare state in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2019

We identify earnings impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention in Sweden, using individual linked administrative data to trace potential mechanisms. Leveraging quasi-random variation in eligibility, we estimate that exposure was associated with higher test scores in primary school for...

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Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcare

Mundle, Sudipto - 2018

This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …

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