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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 … schooling; rather, it rewards talent in accordance with the theory on stardom. This finding is consistent with all currently …
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By using data from the latest wave of the Indonesia Life Family Survey, the present work investigates whether and to which extent child time allocation depends on the joint impact of liquidity constraints and risk attitudes. We employ a double selection model of school hours, by adding time...
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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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The paper aims at studying determinants of schooling in traditional hierarchical societies confronted with an … children who do not belong to the ruling caste, migration is a social mobility factor that is enhanced by formal schooling …
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More than 200 years after its first publication, the Malthusian thesis is still much debated, albeit in a modified form. Rather than predicting a global catastrophe, most neo-Malthusians stress the local character of the relationship between population pressure, natural resource scarcity, and...
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after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …
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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
An average person born in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century completed 7 years of schooling … completed 14 years of schooling and spent 40 hours a week working. In the span of 100 years, completed years of schooling … life expectancy account for 80 percent of the increase in years of schooling and 88 percent of the reduction in hours of …
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