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The long-term cognitive and schooling effects of childhood vaccinations in China
Oskorouchi, Hamid R.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Bloom, David E. - 2020
By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China …-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are …
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Education and later-life mortality : evidence from a school reform in Japan
Masuda, Kazuya; Shigeoka, Hitoshi - 2023
We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to secondary school by as much as 3 years. The abolition of secondary school fees also indicates that those affected by the reform likely came from disadvantaged families who could...
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Family planning and women's and children's health: Long term consequences of an outreach program in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - 2012
The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from...
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The effect of early childhood development program attendance on future school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India
Hazarika, Gautam; Viren, Vejoya - 2010
, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …
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Environmental regulation and economic growth under education externalities
Makdissi, Paul; Wodon, Quentin - In: Journal of economic development 31 (2006) 1, pp. 45-51
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Die volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Bildung : empirische Evidenz
Woessmann, Ludger - In: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium : WiSt ; … 36 (2007) 1, pp. 31-37
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Effects of scaling up private school choice programs on public school students
Figlio, David N.; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Karbownik, … - 2021
Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students’ outcomes. Program expansion modestly benefited...
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Measures of effective literacy : a theoretical and empirical note
Mukherjee, Diganta; Gupta, Manash Ranjan - In: Hitotsubashi journal of economics 47 (2006) 1, pp. 17-35
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Female Education Externality and Inclusive Growth
Hong, Gihoon - 2019
Education is generally believed to be beneficial in fostering, independent of gender, higher labor productivity. Female … education may, however, cause other socio-economic gains which are not captured by higher wage or better compensation package … enhancing female education and reducing gender education inequality on various measures of sustainable development. After …
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Chapter 13. Local Interactions
zgr, Onur - In: Handbook of social economics : volume 1, (pp. 587-644). 2011
. Furthermore, since local interactions imply particular forms of externalities, their presence typically suggests government action …
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