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Can private sector participation (PSP) in the piped water sector improve child health? I use child-level data from 39 African countries during 1986–2010 to show that PSP decreases diarrhea among urban-dwelling, under-five children by 2.6 percentage points, or 16% of its mean prevalence....
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Little is known about how health insurance affects labor market decisions for young adults. This is despite the fact that expanding coverage for people in their early 20s is an important component of the Affordable Care Act. This paper studies how having an outside source of health insurance...
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's education using detailed longitudinal data from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our study controls for individual unobserved … significantly less likely to be enrolled in education at ages 15–24. Moreover, there is some evidence that mother's negative health …
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cognitive skills is largely accounted for by labour force composition changes in shares of gender–education groups rather than …
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Wage inequality decreased continuously in France from 1969 to 2008. In contrast to the US and the UK, this period was also characterised by a substantial increase in the educational attainment of the labour force. This paper investigates whether differences in the timing of educational expansion...
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The comparison of mental models of dynamic systems improves our understanding of how people comprehend, interpret, and subsequently influence dynamic management tasks. Approaches to comparing mental models currently used in managerial and organizational cognition research, especially the...
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In this paper, we investigate the causal effect of education on health using an instrumental variable approach. The … tests than previous studies. The results indicate no causal impact of education on either perceived health or anthropometric … health. With regard to the impact of education on male health behavior, namely smoking, we cannot provide conclusive results …
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asymmetric information. The model shows that, in a labour market where education is used as a signalling device, an imperfect … relationship between productivity in education and in the labour market can lead to an equilibrium where a fraction of the high … is prediction is confirmed empirically: Individuals combining low education with high ability have the highest …
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Investments in higher education (HE) to promote competitiveness and economic growth have spurred HE leaders to seek …
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Higher education (HE) systems in Asia have expanded rapidly over the past decade. This includes the rise of private HE …
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