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Household out-of-pocket health spending, health insurance coverage, and children’s school attendance in the Philippines

Capuno, Joseph J.; Quimbo, Stella A.; Carlos Antonio R. … - In: Philippine Review of Economics 46 (2009) 2, pp. 155-181

highlights the links between out-of-pocket health spending, health insurance, and schooling decisions. Applying the model on …

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R\&D-based Growth in the Post-modern Era

Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2010

schooling into an otherwise standard R\&D-based growth model. We then show how a Beckerian child quality-quantity trade …

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The trade-off between fertility and education: evidence from before the demographic transition

Becker, Sascha; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Journal of Economic Growth 15 (2010) 3, pp. 177-204

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The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India

Hazarika, Gautam; Viren, Vejoya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

schooling. Analysis of data from the World Bank's 1997-98 Survey of Living Conditions in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar yields the …

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R&D-Based Growth in the Post-Modern Era.

Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian … - 2010

population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate micro-founded fertility and schooling into …

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The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine

Kim, Seonghoon; Deng, Quheng; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Shi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is also negative, but smaller in magnitude than...

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Does supply matter? Initial schooling conditions and the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers for grade progression in Nicaragua

Maluccio, John; Murphy, Alexis; Regalia, Ferdinando - In: Journal of Development Effectiveness 2 (2010) 1, pp. 87-116

The authors use a randomised evaluation to examine the effect of a conditional cash transfer programme on grade progression in Nicaragua from 1999 to 2003, putting the spotlight on initial supply-side conditions and the extent to which they conditioned programme effectiveness. Their principal...

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JEWISH HOUSEHOLDS, ARAB HOUSEHOLDS, AND INCOME INEQUALITY IN RURAL ISRAEL: RAMIFICATIONS FOR THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT

Kimhi, Ayal - In: Defence and Peace Economics 21 (2010) 4, pp. 381-394

16% of rural income inequality is explained by the Jewish-Arab divide. Schooling and household size, which are … end of the schooling distribution, and at Arab municipalities in particular, are recommended to reduce per capita income …

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Cambios en la diferenciación de los ingresos de la población del Gran Córdoba entre 1992 y 2000 según el género y nivel de escolaridad

Gertel, Héctor; Giuliodori, Roberto; Rodríguez, Alejandro - In: Revista de Economía y Estadística XLII (2004) 1, pp. 115-139

El objetivo de esta investigación es estudiar la contribución de la diferenciación por años de educación y por género en la determinación de la desigualdad en la distribución personal del ingreso. La perspectiva adoptada se apoya, por un lado, en el cálculo de la distancia económica, o...

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Measuring the contribution of education to labour productivity in a developing economy

Campbell, H.F. - In: International Journal of Education Economics and Development 1 (2009) 2, pp. 156-165

value of an additional year of schooling. Regression models are used to estimate the effects of levels of education on the … earnings of skilled and unskilled workers, respectively. These models are also used to test for sex discrimination. One … conclusion is that an additional year of schooling raises labour productivity by at least 5%. …

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