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The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the functioning of the labor market in Morocco is affecting economic growth. The first section examines the demographic factors affecting the supply side of the labor market such as the population growth, the pace of urbanization, and the increase...
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This chapter analyzes the effects of an aging population on individual skill choices and the production structure by means of a dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and probabilistic aging. The model allows for capital-skill complementarity, which strongly affects the...
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This paper analyzes the impact of IMF-supported programs on health and education spending in a large time-series cross …-known endogeneity of IMF-supported programs, the paper finds, contrary to the conventional wisdom, that health and education do not …
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This paper analyzes qualitatively and quantitatively the e ects of declining mortality rates on fertility, education …
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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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The rapid increase in adult mortality due to the AIDS epidemic in sub- Saharan Africa raises great concern about its impact on child welfare. This article estimates the impact of AIDS-related adult mortality on primary school attendance in rural Kenya using a panel of 1,266 households surveyed...
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talented young people still hesitate to attend college. This puzzle motivates this paper to test for whether college education … earnings risk from transitory earnings risks. Evidence indicates that investing in a four-year college education is indeed …
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