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| Duraisamy, P.. |
| There is hardly any estimate of the returns to schooling in India based on a national level representative data for the recent period. This paper provides estimates of the returns to education in India by gender, age cohort and location (by rural-urban) for the most recent period 1993/4, and also evaluates the changes in returns over a period of time from 1983-94 using a large national level household survey data. The data show that the returns to education increases up to the secondary level and declines thereafter. There is evidence of substantial gender and rural-urban differences in the returns to schooling. The returns to women's education for the primary and middle levels have declined while those for secondary and college levels have increased... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Rate of return; Human capital; India; Labor and Human Capital; J31; I21. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28505 |
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| Cueto, Santiago; Guerrero, Gabriela; Leon, Juan; Zevallos, Alvaro; Sugimaru, Claudia. |
| El presente estudio reporta los resultados de un diseño longitudinal en el que se siguió a 304 estudiantes de zonas urbanas y rurales de Puno. Los estudiantes incluidos se encontraban en quinto grado de primaria en el 2000 y debían estar en quinto de secundaria (el fin de la educación básica) en el 2006, cuando se los volvió a encuestar y entrevistar. Se logró volver a entrevistar a 76% de los estudiantes de la muestra original; del resto, la mayoría había migrado fuera de Puno, de acuerdo con reportes de amigos y familiares. De los entrevistados, 69% habían avanzado sin repetir, 13% habían abandonado la escuela y el resto habían repetido uno o más grados. Por un lado, los resultados sugieren que el rendimiento en una prueba estandarizada de matemática en... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Rendimiento escolar; Desercion escolar; Educacion secundaria; Puno; Peru; Academic achievement; Student drop out; Secondary education; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession; I21. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59690 |
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| Tansel, Aysit. |
| This study investigates the determinants of school attainments of boys and girls in Turkey. Although high levels of enrollments have been achieved at the primary school level for both boys and girls in much of Turkey, substantial regional differences remain. In particular, in the Southeastern region, girls begin to drop out of school around the third grade. Only half of the primary school graduates register at the middle level. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine the determinants of educational attainments at the primary, middle and high school levels. Attainments of boys and girls are examined separately so as to shed light on the causes for the significantly lower level of attainment for girls. Understanding the constraints causing the large... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: School attainments; Gender; Turkey; Labor and Human Capital; I21; J16. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28519 |
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| Owusu-Edusei, Kwame; Espey, Molly; Lin, Huiyan. |
| This study jointly estimates the impact of school quality and school proximity on residential property values in Greenville, South Carolina. While quality is found to be capitalized into residential property values, the degree of capitalization depends on school level and proximity to each school for which the house is zoned for attendance. In general, there is positive value associated with closer proximity to schools of all levels, and negative value associated with a significantly longer than average distance to schools. In terms of quality rankings, excellence at the elementary and high school levels has the strongest impact on property values. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Hedonics; Park proximity; School proximity; School quality; Land Economics/Use; I21; O18; R21. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6609 |
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| Mykerezi, Elton; Mills, Bradford F.; Gomes, Sonya. |
| This paper examines trends in the socioeconomic well-being in rural counties where Black residents represent one third or more of the population. These racially diverse rural counties (RDRCs) are located exclusively in the rural South and generally have low levels of economic well-being. On a positive note, college education levels in RDRCs are found to have increased rapidly between 1990 and 2000. Regression analysis suggests that these increases were in part due to the concentration of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the region. Local investments in K-12 education are also found to be linked to county education levels. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Blacks; Public education; Public investment; Rural South; R12; I21; R53. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37959 |
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| Joshi, Shareen. |
| This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants. These women differ from each other not only in their current socio-economic circumstances, but also in their backgrounds and circumstances prior to getting married. To identify the effects of female-headship on children's outcomes, I use a two-stage least squares strategy that controls for the possible endogeneity of both types of female-headship. Results indicate that children residing in households headed by married women have stronger schooling attainments than... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Female-headed Households; Widowhood; Migration; Schooling; Labor and Human Capital; J12; J13; J16; I21; O15. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28424 |
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| Aromolaran, Adebayo B.. |
| Economists have argued that increasing female schooling positively influences the labor supply of married women by inducing a faster rise in market productivity relative to non-market productivity. I use the Nigerian Labor Force Survey to investigate how own and husbands schooling affect womens labor market participation. I find that additional years of postsecondary education increases wage market participation probability by as much as 15.2%. A marginal increase in primary schooling has no effect on probability of wage employment, but could enhance participation rates in self-employment by about 5.40%. These effects are likely to be stronger when a woman is married to a more educated spouse. The results suggest that primary education is more productive... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Nigeria; Female schooling; Womens labor market participation; Non-market productivity; Labor and Human Capital; I21; J22; J24; O15. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28451 |
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| Sinha, Nistha. |
| Despite the attractiveness of experiments from the perspective of program evaluation, there have been very few program experiments in the area of family planning. This paper evaluates an ongoing family planning program experiment in rural Bangladesh. The paper estimates the effect of mothers' program exposure on fertility and children's time allocation. The results show that while the program was effective in reducing fertility, it had no significant impact on children's school enrollment. However, the program appears to have significantly raised boys' participation in the labor force. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Fertility; Child labor; School enrollment; Program evaluation; Labor and Human Capital; J13; J22; I21. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28457 |
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| Karlan, Dean S.; Valdivia, Martin. |
| Los debates académicos y de políticas acerca de la actividad microempresarial se centran frecuentemente en las restricciones crediticias, asumiendo que los negocios se manejan de manera óptima dadas esas y otras restricciones. Los microempresarios, sin embargo, raramente tienen capacitación formal en gestión empresarial. Por su parte, un número creciente de instituciones de microfinanzas (IMF), en el Perú y el mundo, procura construir el capital humano de estos microempresarios para mejorar sus niveles de vida, contribuyendo a su misión de reducir la pobreza. Con ayuda de un diseño experimental, en este estudio medimos el impacto marginal de agregar un componente de capacitación en gestión empresarial a un programa de servicios financieros que atiende a... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Microempresarios; Microfinanzas; Pequeñas empresas; Mujeres; Capacitacion; Small enterprises; Training; Women; Peru; Financial Economics; C93; D12; D13; D21; I21; J24; O12. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91358 |
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| Roucan-Kane, Maud; Suttles, Joseph. |
| Extension programs must be evaluated in order to assess their value to participants, institutions, funders, and all other stakeholders. Evaluations can be especially useful when the program has specific objectives that are measurable, either qualitatively and quantitatively. There are many different methods and formats for evaluation, and choosing the correct evaluation can be critical to ensuring the accuracy and relevance of the evaluation results. Considerable thought must be put into determining the correct method for an evaluation, and they must always be focused on the specific objectives of the extension program. After administering an evaluation, the results should be communicated back to the stakeholders of the program in an effective manner... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Extension program; Evaluation; LOGIC; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession; Q16; I21; I23. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48538 |
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| Schultz, T. Paul. |
| A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a populations child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the productive returns from these three forms of human capital investment are nonetheless qualified by a number of limitations in our data and analytical methods. This paper reviews the problems that occupy researchers in this field and summarizes accumulating evidence of empirical regularities. Social experiments must be designed to assess how randomized policy interventions motivate families and individuals to invest in human capital, and then measure the changed wage... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Health; Productivity; Human capital; Schooling; Returns; Labor and Human Capital; J24; I12; I21. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28475 |
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