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Pakistan is severely disadvantaged by its failure to achieve higher levels of human development. Low enrolment thirty years ago is reflected in the lower educational level of today’s labor force, lower productivity and lower adaptation of technology. Even today less than half of the school-age...
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concentrate education's subsides at the basic school rather than at college education. …
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the frequently obtained conclusion that investments in higher education are too low are doubtful. The tests also show the … importance of further education and training, especially on-the-job training. …
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We estimate the demand for colleges in the United States by relating new applications to easily comparable characteristics of the schools in the sample. We find that the demand for 1134 U.S. colleges in 1994 is positively related to out-of-state tuition but inversely related to in- state...
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matches rather than through tax breaks, and require participants to attend financial education. Participants accrue matches as … withdrawals typically include home purchase, post-secondary education, and microenterprise. The purpose of this study is to … examine the relationship between the hours of financial education attended by IDA participants and savings outcomes. The data …
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A common justification for HOPE-style merit-aid programs is to promote and reward academic achievement, thereby inducing greater investments in human capital. However, grade-based eligibility and retention rules encourage other behavioral responses. Using the longitudinal records of all...
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role of education. It distinguishes between property and interpersonal crime and proposes an econometric estimation of the … model for 723 municipalities of Minas Gerais, one of the 26 Brazilian states. Education has a significant reducing effect …
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the role of cognitive ability in the health–education nexus. Using NLSY data, we show that cognitive ability accounts for … schooling will only increase health to the extent that they increase the education of poorly-educated individuals; subsidies to … college education, for example, are unlikely to increase population health. …
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This paper deals with poverty, health, education and human deprivation among Indian States. Human development evaluates … poverty, health, education lead the poor to indulge in the vicious circle. Uplifting the poor from these deprivations is …
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the role of cognitive ability in the health–education nexus. Using NLSY data, we show that cognitive ability accounts for … schooling will only increase health to the extent that they increase the education of poorly-educated individuals; subsidies to … college education, for example, are unlikely to increase population health. …
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