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We investigate the effects of ante-natal maternal vaccination against tetanus on the schooling attained by children in … find significant schooling gains from maternal tetanus vaccination for children whose parents had no schooling, showing a …
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This article tests the relationship between earnings and schooling for male footballers of the Portuguese Football … that the sports market barely compensates the cost of education in accordance with the theory on the economic return on … schooling; rather, it rewards talent in accordance with the theory on stardom. This finding is consistent with all currently …
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Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...
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Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to school dropout, lost productivity, and the intergenerational transmission of poverty. However, there is debate about whether adolescent pregnancy is a problem in and of itself or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556238
Money for Education, Health, Child Protection not enough for 400 million children’s basic rights …
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-protection mechanisms and in particular threatens the country’s ability to achieve education development targets. Using the 2002/03 Uganda … schooling but are by far more likely to fall below their appropriate grade. On the other hand, we find that all orphans …—regardless of cause of parental death are less likely to continue schooling and the gaps in enrollment decreases at higher levels of …
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potential underlying mechanisms linking education and health behaviors by showing that increasing schooling also raised …This study estimates the causal effect of schooling on health behaviors. Using changes in the minimum school leaving … schooling, the instrumental variables (IV) regression estimates imply that there is a positive, sizeable, and statistically …
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education or general intellectual achievement by schooling in our empirical research, this has led to biased interpretations of …This chapter presents a review and synthesis of effects of education in agriculture, summarizes major contributions … technical change. A puzzle remains why schooling does not have broader direct impacts in agriculture. Furthermore, as we proxy …
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From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …
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