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Tertiary education and prosperity : catholic missionaries to luminosity in India
Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Chaudhary, Latika; … - 2015
This paper estimates the causal impact of tertiary education on luminosity across Indian districts. We address the potential endogeneity of tertiary education using the location of Catholic missionaries in 1911 as an instrument for current tertiary education. We find Catholic missionaries have a...
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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...
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births...
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037965
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The National Skills Qualification Framework in India: the promise and the reality
Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2020
India's TVET system, by international standards, is at a very rudimentary level of development. TVET was a relatively neglected subject in India's educational planning, at least until the beginning of 2007. However, this changed with the 11th Plan (2007012). One dimension of this change was the...
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Entitled to property : how breaking the gender barrier improves child health in India
Hossain, Shahadat Md.; Nikolov, Plamen - 2023
Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial determinant of human capital and economic standing throughout adulthood. We examine the effects of a policy shift, the Hindu Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted...
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Impact of industrialization on relative female survival : evidence from trade policies
Chakraborty, Tanika - 2012
This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with higher trade openness relative to regions with...
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The Relationship between Industrialization Strategy and National Ir/Hr Policies in Asia : Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and India
Kuruvilla, Sarosh - 1998
The case studies of Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, and India presented in this paper support the author's contention that a country's industrialization strategy for economic development profoundly influences its industrial relations (IR) and human resource (HR) policy goals. For example, he...
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Earnings differences between Chinese and Indian wage earners, 1987 - 2004
Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2008
1980s Indian premium is mainly due to higher returns to education and experience, a combination of price and endowment … effects explains why Chinese wages have caught up, especially since the mid-1990s. The price effect is only partly explained …
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The returns to English-language skills in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2010
quantify the effects of English-speaking ability on wages. We find that being fluent in English (compared to not speaking any … English) increases hourly wages of men by 34%, which is as much as the return to completing secondary school and half as much … wages 13%. There is considerable heterogeneity in returns to English. More experienced and more educated workers receive …
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