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This paper examines the impacts of social capital on Aboriginal educational attainment in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. We developed a synthesis looking for patterns and distilling the role of social capital. In writing our results we chose programs and policies of countries targeted that...
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We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...
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This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation …
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literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …
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Immigration officials in rich countries are being asked to become overseas development officials, charged with … compassionate and political sentiments without clear evidence that the regulations achieve the desired development goals and avoid …
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path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical …
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out of a development trap. …
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's economies out of a development trap. …
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The relationship between human capital development and urbanization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is explored …
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The evolution of the European policy in the field of research, development, innovation reflects the maturity process of …, development, innovation the differences between the European Union Member States have to be reduced, before attempting to catch up …
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