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inequality and high returns on tertiary education, academic achievement indexes throw up barriers to access to tertiary education …
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We study the contribution of health shocks to earnings inequality and uncertainty in labor market outcomes. We calibrate a life-cycle model of labor supply and savings that incorporates health and health shocks. Our model features endogenous wage formation via human capital accumulation,...
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In countries with high levels of inequality, progress in education has often been placed high in the list of policy … inequality and a decomposition procedure to ascertain how wage distribution was affected by advances in education that doubled … education were an equalizing factor across the wage distribution, changes in the educational composition of the work force …
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The provision of life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment has emerged as a key component of the global response to HIV/AIDS, yet little is known about the impact of this intervention on the welfare of children whose parents receive treatment. In this working paper CGD post-doctoral fellow...
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labour market are larger than those in earnings alone, and the full returns to education on the labour market are …
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Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …
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education under two separate but closely related entities, while non-FIEP institutions provide regular education. As both VT and … better-funded FIEP system are more likely to continue to higher education, so that the short-run employment effect all but …
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Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …
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bilingual education programs (which use some native language instruction) and English-only programs are not significantly …
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Concerns about poor student performance have led schools to diverge from traditional teacher compensation and base a portion of pay on student outcomes. In the US, the number of school districts adopting such performancebased financial incentives has increased by more than 40% since 2004....
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