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Accounting for Public Expenditures on Education: An International Panel Study.

Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1995

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Vouchers, School Choice and the Access to Higher Education

Contreras, Dante - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2002

at community level) implies substantially larger impacts of the voucher system. The effect of parents' education on …

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Why Governments Should Invest More to Educate Girls

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

's education than father's. More educated women work more hours in the market labor force, broadening the tax base and thereby … expenditures toward women's education. …

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Health and Schooling Investments in Africa.

Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

Health and education are not only beneficial in themselves, but they can be viewed as investments in human capital … which lead to a higher future standard of living. The people of Africa experience lower levels of both health and education …

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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Meghir, Costas; Momaerts, Corina; Carneiro, Pedro; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the country's education budget. We find large positive effects on test …

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Health and Schooling Investments in Africa.

Schults, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

height and weight-for-height, and to education, proxied by years of schooling completed, by level. …

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Vertical and Horizontal Decentralization and Ethnic Diversity

Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012

, in terms of health and education, of public goods. More neglected in the literature is the issue of horizontal … decentralization, shifting the decision-making power from the central ministry of finance to the ministries of education and health, as …

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Decentralization in Argentina

Habibi, Nadir; Huang, Cindy; Miranda, Diego; Murillo, … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

Human development, reflected in the status of people's levels of health and education, affects future growth and, in …

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Growth and Human Development: Comparative Latin American Experience

Ranis, Gustav; Stewart, Frances - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

This paper seeks to examine the interdependence between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD). It is concerned with changes in per capita income and its two-way relationship with the basic societal objective of human development. Regressions across various Latin American countries are...

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Labor Surplus Revisited

Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012

Unskilled labor is the abundant resource in many developing countries, especially at an early stage of their development. Yet, even as at given technologies labor markets have not cleared, neo-classical economists have rejected the notion of an institutional or bargaining wage not based on...

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