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While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant or even surprisingly negative effect of schooling. In...
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While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent cross-country regressions analysing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect insignificant or even surprising negative effects of schooling. In this...
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We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...
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growth, how then can societies promote them? This paper attempts to answer this question using the 2005 wave of the World …
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socio-cultural norms in some economies, and further depriving women equal access to digital services. Digital skills provide …-pronged digital skills strategy that will be required for developing countries to break out of the digital divide trap: (1) Monitor … the evolving set of digital skills required for employment (2) incorporate a holistic digital skills development strategy …
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socio-cultural norms in some economies, and further depriving women equal access to digital services. Digital skills provide …-pronged digital skills strategy that will be required for developing countries to break out of the digital divide trap: (1) Monitor … the evolving set of digital skills required for employment, (2) incorporate a holistic digital skills development strategy …
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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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