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Access to Schools & Intergenerational Human Capital : Evidence from India

Sunder, Naveen - 2018

This paper examines the impact of a large scale school construction program in India, the District Primary Education … fuzzy regression discontinuity design that compares outcomes of school-age children in districts near the average female … information. The results show that DPEP increased school access, enrollment, literacy and completed education for both male and …

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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015

-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production …

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

Heckman, James J. - 2012

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...

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Education as a Source of Economic Growth. Rate of Return to Schooling

Kassapi, Sophia - 2014

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Education as a Source of Economic Growth. Rate of Return to Schooling

Kassapi, Sophia - 2016

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The short- and medium-term impacts of Sure Start on educational outcomes

Carneiro, Pedro; Cattan, Sarah; Ridpath, Nick - 2024

having had access to a Sure Start centre between ages 0 and 5 on school outcomes, including academic achievement and special …

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Human capital development

Son, Hyun H. - 2010

This paper has two main objectives. First, it assesses and measures the gaps in the stock of human capital across the world. It presents how effectively different regions are improving their stock of human capital, and how long it will take for developing countries to catch up with the current...

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Education and Growth : Where All the Education Went

Breton, Theodore R. - 2016

We investigate why the economics literature often finds a negative relationship between increased schooling and GDP growth over short periods. We show that increases in GDP in 98 countries during five-year intervals are correlated with the increases in adults' average schooling during the prior...

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Test scores and economic growth: update and extension

Heller-Sahlgren, Gabriel; Jordahl, Henrik - 2021

economic growth. In this paper, we extend previous findings up to 2016 and analyse test scores of upper-secondary school …

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Education and human capital effect on Malaysian economic growth

Rabiul Islam; Ahmad Bashawir Abdul Ghani; Kusuma, Bobby; … - In: International journal of economics and financial issues … 6 (2016) 4, pp. 1722-1728

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