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Facing a labor market that is unable to absorb a growing demand, entrepreneurship and self-employment is an interesting path on many levels. In addition to being a real driver of growth and competitiveness, entrepreneurship is also a mean of self-realization, independence and personal...
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, education, and earnings life histories merged from the SIPP survey and federal administrative sources. Using ordinary logit …
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implications of the analytical framework. We conduct an empirical inquiry that reveals that education plays a major role in …
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Achieving progress in education is of fundamental importance for human development. Low levels of access to the … education system and in educational outcomes in developing countries are often accompanied by high inequality between countries … education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within countries, and also by gender …
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an instrument allows to disentangle the pure effect of parental income from effects related to parental education, family … to raise schooling levels and to protect investment in children's education against transitory income shocks. Although …
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Education is thought to be central to economic development. Yet, relatively little is known about how developing …
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. Regarding years of formal education attained in young adulthood, boys whose fathers die before adolescence suffer the most …
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We report the short-term results from a randomized evaluation of a mobile phone literacy program (ABC) in Niger, in which adult literacy students learned how to use mobile phones as part of a literacy class. Students in mobile phone literacy villages showed substantial gains in numeracy exam...
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software, and cryptographic systems, some types of specialized computing systems. In the Education Project two main mechanisms … grand scale new knowledge-management methods and put mechanisms into practice. Among the main intentions of the Education … Project the following should be mentioned: the modernization of its material-technical base, the internetization of education …
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positive outcomes on health and education. In this paper, we are particularly interested in testing if children participating …
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