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moderation analysis shows that the distance to and quality of education and health facilities matter in child schooling and …
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study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health … investment comprising private and government health expenditures, primary, secondary and tertiary education expenditures were … problem of youth unemployment in SSA would require serial consistent disproportionate investment more in education than in …
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This paper documents stylized facts on rates of returns to education during economic crises. It shows from three middle …-income countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Africa - that the rate of return to university education (versus secondary education …
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the conditioning role played by the skills of the labour force, captured by different levels of education. We find that … stricter labour protection reduces labour productivity growth in sectors with a large share of workers with tertiary education …, whereas this effect is negligible or positive in sectors where workers with secondary or only primary education are more …
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age for attaining compulsory education was kept at 14 until 1990. To study the effects of this change, we exploit the …-compulsory education level increased after the reform. In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for … increase is partly explained by the deterioration of the health habits of affected women. Together, these results help explain …
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incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled … rewards were offered. The program also led to some effects in each of the three areas of education, health and work, although …
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The world has enjoyed huge improvements in population health during the last half century. But major health problems … deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic arguments for public spending on health have buttressed governments …’ efforts to improve health. These efforts have now been further spurred by new economic arguments that better population health …
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This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing … mass index (BMI). We examine the causal effect of education on these health behaviors and the BMI Instrumental variable … approach is used in order to address the endogeneity of education to health behaviors. Educational expansion of the early 1960s …
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This study provides causal effect of education on health behaviors in Turkey which is a middle income developing … mass index (BMI). We examine the causal effect of education on these health behaviors and the BMI Instrumental variable … approach is used in order to address the endogeneity of education to health behaviors. Educational expansion of the early 1960s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492849