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Advancing Health Care Through Collaboration Between India and Israel
Hegadekatti, Kartik - 2018
India and Israel officially established diplomatic relations in 1992. Since then they have collaborated on a host of … health care human resources are not the same. India has a certain niche in the health care field, Israel has another. The …-Israeli collaboration in health care areas by opening an AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) in Israel and a Tel Aviv University …
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020
-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419034
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026021
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037965
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Microfinance and the decision to invest in children's education
Viswanath, P. V. - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-20
Although one of the primary objectives of microfinance has been the reduction of poverty through the provision of credit for income-generating purposes, evidence of its impact on poverty has been mixed. Even if there is no direct impact of microfinance, there may be an indirect positive impact...
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The National Skills Qualification Framework in India: the promise and the reality
Mehrotra, Santosh K. - 2020
India's TVET system, by international standards, is at a very rudimentary level of development. TVET was a relatively … neglected subject in India's educational planning, at least until the beginning of 2007. However, this changed with the 11th … found to be not different than India's. Finally, the paper reviews briefly efforts of the government to expand TVET at …
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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments
Fryer, R.G. - 2017
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
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Money counts, but so does timing : public investment and adult competencies
Cathles, Alison; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2017
Numeracy skills of adults within and across 12 different countries in 2011 are strongly associated with the accumulated public investments in education received by these adults during their schooling. This paper confirms existing evidence that the timing of educational investments is important,...
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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the U.S.
Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024
Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the U.S.
Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024
Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014521056