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to achieve universal primary education by 2015, one of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Using … not enrolled in school in 2005-06. Assuming a gradual and steady increase in enrolment, education simulations show that … population education gap over the years. Thus rapid increase in enrolment is the desired option. Otherwise the large education …
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In 1971, longer school days were decreed for around half the public primary schools in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since participating schools were chosen roughly at random, an unusual opportunity for a natural experiment was created. In 2006 and 2007, we interviewed a sample of 380...
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inflation, unemployment, investment, education and health are examined through an annual data set from 1980 to 2007. To test the …. Results show that education and health have a positive and significant relationship with most of the criminal activities in …
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Quebec’s Aboriginal poverty is severe, and the large gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal education levels is the … most important factor in explaining it. In the report, the author examines the relationship between education levels and … Quebecers, and for Canadians overall, Richards finds that the province’s Aboriginal education outcomes rank below the Canadian …
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The study presented here reviews activities of NGOs in Sudan. That was a disputable issue that resulted in a mass expulsion of many in 2009. However¸ there were precedents of such expulsions in previous and following years. The paper discusses humanitarian work in Sudan, positive and negative...
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What is the effect of an increase in the stock of human capital on the innovative performance of a local economy? This paper tests the hypothesis of a causal link between an increase in the average stock of human capital, due to skilled migration inflows, and the innovative performance of local...
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The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of … combined direct and indirect (spillover) effects. Thus, the analysis suggests that a key way that English education purports to …
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population and whether various deciles of the education distribution have been differentially affected. We constructed a dataset …
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It is likely that the extent of progression in the educational system a effects whether or not one decides to start a family at a given point in time. We estimate the effect of enrolling in college in the year of application on later family formation decisions such as the probability of being a...
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