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of cognitive ability. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing …
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During COVID school closures, learning become mostly restricted to young people who had internet access at home. This paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young people's internet access across gender, caste, religion,...
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We combine phone-survey data from 2,200 students collected in July-August of 2020 with student-level administrative data from 54 schools in four Northwestern provinces of Cambodia to investigate the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for grade 9 students. These students were particularly...
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Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market … schooling, there is no strong evidence that skills measured in childhood predict wages in the early years of labor market …
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generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by this reform is identified using both … reform. The model finds that the removal of school fees in Ethiopia led to an increase of over 1.5 years of schooling for … schooling on fertility. Each additional year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility, a delay in sexual activity, marriage …
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). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child … the incidence of child labour. The results are in line with theoretical models that predict that if leisure and schooling … previous evidence that schooling and work decisions are not perfect substitutes among children. …
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We examine the impact of rainfall variability and cyclones on schooling and work among a cohort of teens and young …
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How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels …
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educational attainment compared to a large-scale government conditional cash transfer program to encourage female schooling. …
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beneficial, since it may contribute to matching the demand and supply of schooling. The absence of adults, instead, has …
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