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A teenager in love : multidimensional human capital and teenage pregnancy in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2017 - This version: March 15, 2017
I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal … related to teenage pregnancy. Second, however, once Ghanaian and English reading skills are introduced, the association … between educational attainment and teenage pregnancy decreases or disappears altogether. Third, for the girls who have not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110958
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A teenager in love : multidimensional human capital and teenage pregnancy in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2017
I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal … related to teenage pregnancy. Second, however, once Ghanaian and English reading skills are introduced, the association … between educational attainment and teenage pregnancy decreases or disappears altogether. Third, for the girls who have not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636665
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Education, skill training, and lifelong learning in the era of technological revolution
Kim, Jinyoung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2020
Rapid technological development makes skills depreciate faster than in the past while new technologies generate gaps in workers’ skills and call for the acquisition of proper skills and lifelong learning. Proper skill mixes for future jobs include strong cognitive skills, basic information and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152551
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Education, Skill Training, and Lifelong Learning in the Era of Technological Revolution
Park, Cyn-Young; Kim, Jinyoung - 2020
Rapid technological development makes skills depreciate faster than in the past while new technologies generate gaps in workers’ skills and call for the acquisition of proper skills and lifelong learning. Proper skill mixes for future jobs include strong cognitive skills, basic information and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014098548
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Grandparents, moms, or dads? why children of teen mothers do worse in life
Aizer, Anna; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020
Women who give birth as teens have worse subsequent educational and labor market outcomes than women who have first births at older ages. However, previous research has attributed much of these effects to selection rather than a causal effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296522
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A Teenager in Love : Multidimensional Human Capital and Teenage Pregnancy in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2017
I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal … related to teenage pregnancy. Second, however, once Ghanaian and English reading skills are introduced, the association … between educational attainment and teenage pregnancy decreases or disappears altogether. Third, for the girls who have not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959056
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020
The consequences of early motherhood for the offspring are severely understudied, especially in low- and middle-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419034
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026021
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037965
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The effect of in-service teacher training on student learning of english as a second language
Bando Grana, Rosangela; Li, Xia - 2014
In-service teacher training aims to improve the supply of public education. A randomized experiment was conducted in Mexico to test whether teacher training could increase teacher efficiency in public secondary schools. After seven and a half months of exposure to a trained teacher, students...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286658