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workers, we cannot achieve sufficient level of human capital to sustain economic growth only through education for the young …. Thus, we need recurrent education for the elderly or retired female workers in an aging society as in Japan. Hence, this … recurrent education is left to the private sector.To answer this question, this paper studies human capital accumulation through …
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This paper examines the impact of a large scale school construction program in India, the District Primary Education … information. The results show that DPEP increased school access, enrollment, literacy and completed education for both male and …'s increased bargaining power, higher investments in children's education and better health/health related behaviors …
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Do poor parents respond inefficiently to future returns on investments, even when they would have the financial means to invest optimally? Combining multiple experiments, we document that when parents of high-school students in Brazil are offered the opportunity to invest in an educational...
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Can governments leverage existing service-delivery platforms to scale early childhood development (ECD) programs? We experimentally study a large-scale home-visiting intervention providing materials and counseling --- integrated into Bangladesh's national nutrition program without extra...
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quality appear to have an indirect effect via a province’s initial human capital endowment. Public spending on education …
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measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population … and the corresponding mean years of schooling (representing the quantity of education). In contrast to the existing … elasticity of the stock of human capital with respect to the quality of education is three to four times larger than for the …
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measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population … and the corresponding mean years of schooling (representing the quantity of education). In contrast to the existing … elasticity of the stock of human capital with respect to the quality of education is three to four times larger than for the …
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earmarked for education, may be insufficient to spark such investments when returns are high, and even lead to over …
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earmarked for education, may be insufficient to spark such investments when returns are high, and even lead to over …
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The risk of AIDS-related mortality increased dramatically throughout the 1990s. This paper updates previous work by Fortson (2011) to examine the impact of mortality risk on human capital investment during the deadliest period of the pandemic. We combine Demographic Health Survey data from 30...
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