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equal distribution of education contributes significantly to reducing income inequality. Educational expansion is a major … stability contribute to reducing income inequality, while public spending on education helps to reduce educational inequality … make both income and education distribution more unequal. Using the calibration of empirical results, we find that we can …
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). Human capital theory predicts investment in education to improve labour market outputs. However, when it comes to lagging …
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Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...
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invest in their children’s education. In this paper, I describe a study undertaken to gauge the impact of microcredit … availability on education expenditures for children of clients of a South Indian microfinance institution. I first look at some … determinants of the demand for education and then go on to consider what we know about how microcredit affects this demand. I find …
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We develop an overlapping generations model to study how the interplay between social and human capital affects fertility. In a framework where families face a trade-off between the quantity and quality of children, we incorporate the assumption that social capital plays a key role in the...
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of individuals surveyed in their early twenties. The inclusion of early life household wealth, parental education and …
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