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externalities. Using U.S. Census data, I find large, positive spillovers from college education in the 1980s, as documented by … education, as shifts in the impact of city education composition on wages are not consistent with standard models of …
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We report the short-term results from a randomized evaluation of a mobile phone literacy and numeracy program (Project ABC) in Niger, in which adult literacy students learned how to use mobile phones as part of a literacy and numeracy class.  Students in ABC villages showed substantial gains in...
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This article presents new international estimates of human capital for the period 1970–2003. The new latent index is used to re-examine the Benhabib and Spiegel (2005) model of technology diffusion in a horse-race with the competing indicators of Barro and Lee (2010) and Hanushek and Wößmann...
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The need for education to help every child has become more important for policy in the US and the UK. Remedial …
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the state language affect linguistic minority students’ demand for education. The reform obligated linguistic minority …
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The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a 50 year period. The first was a large …
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This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several …
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radical effect on the transformation of education and training in all sectors demonstrating how pervasive ICT has become with …
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This paper attempts to test whether women systematically get less education than their male siblings and is based on … systematically get less parental investment in their education than their male siblings. Thus, pure human capital models of labour …
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The past half-century has been witness to the largest education expansion drive in human history; as a worldwide … education expansion project played itself out. This expansion has taken up a significant proportion of resources of nations. In … the case of the developing countries education is almost invariably the biggest item on government’s expenditure budgets …
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