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The pessimistic flavour of the Human Development Reports appears to be in contradiction with their own numbers as developing countries fare comparatively better in human development than in per capita GDP terms. This paper attempts to bridge this gap by providing a new, ‘improved’ human...
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The tracking of pupils by ability into elite and non-elite schools represents a common, but highly controversial policy in many countries. In particular, there is no consensus on how large the elite track should be and, consequently, little agreement on the potential effects of any further...
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particular, they find no impact of life expectancy increases on education. We argue that their pessimistic results with respect … the impact of life expectancy improvements on the average education of the whole population aged above 15, which evolves … much slower. We have reproduced their estimations with a cohort-based measure of education and find a positive and …
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Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
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selection issues present in studies on single-sex education done on students in primary and secondary school. We find that one … hour a week of single-sex education benefits females: females are 7.5% more likely to pass their first year courses and … economics and business at university than females who studied in coed classes. There is evidence that single-sex education …
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initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …
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Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
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numerical techniques, a model based on human capital accumulation through education, and we find that the increase in … precautionary savings makes labour more productive in the goods sector and draws resources from education, which is the "growth …
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