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This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using … remittances flows with respect to GDP. While remittances tend to have positive effects on education and health, this impact is …
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Do public sector workers earn a wage premium in Djibouti and are the returns to education different across the sectors … sector. Workers in the public sector earn higher private rates of return to education than do private sector workers with …
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This paper presents the largest globally comparable panel database of education quality. The database includes 163 … -- the countries that have the most to gain from the potential benefits of a high-quality education; (3) the data set … global progress on education quality, as well as to uncover potential drivers of education quality, growth, and development …
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The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses - the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …
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A textbook provision program in Sierra Leone demonstrates how volatility in the flow of government-provided learning inputs to schools can induce storage of these inputs by school administrators to smooth future consumption. This process in turn leads to low current utilization of inputs for...
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with the Minister of Education and with children enrich the multivariate regression results. The multiple sources of child … labor appear to include, in particular, the structure of the economy, social norms and no returns to rural basic education … children's education and later opportunities …
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cohort, survey date, and district to estimate the impact of the insurgency on education outcomes. Overall conflict intensity …
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education, the larger on average are the wage premiums for those who work for foreign firms. Third, longer hours of work in …
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All-weather rural roads usually improve not only villagers' terms of trade, but also their educational attainments and health. Obtaining empirical estimates of the benefits generated by the first is straightforward, not so those generated by the others. The object of this paper is to estimate...
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This paper analyzes the effects of all-weather rural roads on households' net output prices, education and health in a … health and education at least as highly as the' commercial' ones …
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