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The role of school life expectancy and urbanization on adult literacy rates in sub-Saharan Africa
Okpala, Amon O.; Okpala, Comfort - In: International business and economics research journal 13 (2014) 2, pp. 329-333
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010362782
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Is the ideal of universal adult literacy in the world by the year 2030 statistically attainable?
Wolhuter, Charl; Barbieri, Nicola - In: Rivista internazionale di scienze sociali 125 (2017) 1, pp. 87-102
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Improving adult literacy without improving the literacy of adults? : a cross-national cohort analysis
Barakat, Bilal - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 87 (2016), pp. 242-257
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Panel data evidence on the role of education in the growth-volatility relationship
Kedir, Abbi Mamo; Bani, Nor Yasmin Mhd - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545920
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Self-selection in the market of teachers
Correa, Juan A.; Parro, Francisco; Reyes, Loreto - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 13/15, pp. 1331-1349
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World human development: 1870-2007
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 61 (2015) 2, pp. 220-247
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427633
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Health disparities across education : the role of differential reporting error
Cawley, John H.; Choi, Anna - 2015
. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288528
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Childhood roots of financial literacy
Grohmann, Antonia; Kouwenberg, Roy; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2015
Financial literacy predicts informed financial decisions, but what explains financial literacy? We use the concept of financial socialization and aim to represent three major agents of financial socialization: family, school and work. Thus we compile twelve relevant childhood characteristics in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334469
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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335189
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Personality and the education-health gradient : a note on "Understanding differences in health behaviors by education"
Conti, Gabriella; Hansman, Christopher - 2012
education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628151