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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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The last of the lost generations? : formal and non-formal education in Ghana during times of economic decline and recovery
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Hammer, Jeffrey S. - 2018
Using a cohort approach, this paper examines educational attainment in Ghana and its potential determinants considering … and time in Ghana. Individuals who completed any formal education were also much less likely to participate in adult …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859125
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The effect of teenage employment on character skills, expectations and occupational choice strategies
Fuchs, Benjamin - 2016 - This draft: September 22, 2016
A growing body of research suggests that, even after controlling for cognitive abilities, personality predicts economic success in later life. The learning environment at school focuses on knowledge and cognitive skills. The transmission of character skills, however, is not at the center of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554485
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A signal of diligence? : student work experience and later employment chances
Baert, Stijn; Rotsaert, Olivier; Verhaest, Dieter; … - 2015
We investigate the impact of student work experience on later hiring chances. To completely rule out potential endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work experience are randomly disclosed by more than 1000 fictitious graduates applying for jobs in Belgium....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295597
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Protestantism and human capital in Guatemala and the Republic of Korea
McCleary, Rachel M. - 2013
Protestant missions from the United States entered the Republic of Korea and Guatemala at the same time (1884 and 1882, respectively). Yet, their impact on human capital has been divergent. The analysis presented in this paper supports the findings of Woodberry (2004, 2009, 2011) and Nunn (2009)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009734212
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Ageing and literacy skills : evidence from IALS, ALL and PIAAC
Barrett, Garry F.; Riddell, William Craig - 2016
We study the relationship between age and literacy skills using data from the IALS, ALL and PIAAC surveys. In cross-sectional data there is a negative partial relationship between literacy skills and age that is statistically significant indicating that literacy declines with age, especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497120
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Ageing and skills : the case of literacy skills
Barrett, Garry F.; Riddell, William Craig - 2019
The relationship between ageing and skills is of growing policy significance due to population ageing, the changing nature of work and the importance of literacy for social and economic well-being. This article examines the relationship between age and literacy skills in a sample of OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011965093
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Dimensions of illiteracy : a quantitative and comparative approach from Italy, circa 1815
Martinez, Marco - 2022
This paper quantitatively assesses to what extent signatures in marriage certificates can inform about literacy rates in pre-industrial states. The direct estimates are based on a novel and balanced random sample of marriage certificates for pre-unification Italy in 1815. Such figures are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013402051
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A big fish in a small pond : ability rank and human capital investment
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2015
We study the impact of a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort on educational attainment several years later. To identify a causal effect, we compare multiple cohorts within the same school, exploiting idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition. We find that a student's ordinal rank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283117