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14 Oct 2010: economic, or physical attributes that people happen to value at a certain time and. ... Most. of these individuals were also administered tests of literacy, numeracy, health knowledge, English.

3 Dec 2009: Oxford, OX1 3UQ United Kingdom. francis.teal@economics.ox.ac.uk. September 2008 This paper was presented to the Conference on ‘Economic Incentives: Do They Work in Education?’ 15-17 May ... the Ravens Progressive Matrices test. The teacher

11 Feb 2010: search activity in LDCs” Journal of Development Economics, 2, 165-188. Harris, J. ... Schultz, T.P. (1999) “Health and schooling investment in Africa”, Journal of Economic.

3 Dec 2009: Centre for Study of African Economies, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, UK. ... education does not directly promote economic mobility for the large majority of workers in Ghana.

3 Jun 2014: The public training providers were all formal and aimed for preparing their trainees for the nationally-accredited NVTI3 Grade 1 Trade Test certificate. ... The Tamale office, which serves the largest of Ghana's ten. 16 The GPRS-II specifically

3 Dec 2009: The CWIQ. 6 Jolliffe, D. (1998) “Skills, Schooling and Household Income in Ghana” World Bank Economic Review, Vol. ... The group that has never attended school has the highest incidence of economic inactivity after the senior secondary completers.

3 Dec 2009: Donor share of total education spending.14 Figure 2. Trends in economic growth since 1984. ... Figure 2: Trends in economic growth since 1984. -8-6-4-202468. 10. 1980.

3 Dec 2009: The 2006 wave of the GHWS includes data from four skills tests and a health knowledge test. ... The skills tests include a Raven’s test, an English test, a mathematics test, and a reading test.1There is some evidence in very recent literature regarding

3 Dec 2009: Measuring these economic returns to apprenticeship is a difficult undertaking for three reasons. ... scores on skills tests and the score on the Raven’s test.

3 Dec 2009: In addition, each child. took the Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices test and tests of numeracy and literacy21. ... We adapted these tests to the Pakistani. context, reduced the number of questions to test the pupils within a given time frame, and.

3 Dec 2009: to parental household welfare post-marriage in patrilineal societies.1 More generally, we test whether sickness. ... potentially the most compelling explanation in the South African context may be that economic.

11 Feb 2010: economic activities that takes place among the small scale enterprises and the self-. ... 2. economic activities than are observed in higher income economies is to be expected.

3 Dec 2009: Measuring these economic returns to apprenticeship is a difficult undertaking for three reasons. ... scores on skills tests and the score on the Raven’s test.

26 Jun 2014: 11. Field, E., Robles, O. and Torero, M. (2009) 'Iodine deficiency and schooling attainment in Tanzania', American Economic Journal; Applied Economics. ... American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3(1): 91-100 18. Birdthistle, I.; Dickson, K.; Freeman

5 Oct 2010: formal and informal sector, economic activities, health and fertility, disability, empowerment and time. ... the social, economic and political spheres of their lives. Access to universal primary education is Goal.

11 Feb 2010: CHAPTER THREE: THE FINANCING REALM 37. 3.1 The Macro Economic Picture 37. ... Provisional Source: Economic Surveys, Central Bureau of Statistics. 24. 1.2.6 University Education.

6 Oct 2010: numeracy, health knowledge, English language and the Ravens Progressive Matrices test (to assess. ... administered the ‘long literacy test’ which tested more advanced reading and comprehension skills12.

3 Dec 2009: Centre for Study of African Economies, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, UK. ... confirm significant economic returns to literacy for 13 countries on which literacy data were.

13 Oct 2010: 6. Progressive Matrices test and tests of numeracy and literacy were also given to each sampled child2. ... Sabot (1990). We adapted these tests to the Pakistani context, reduced the number of questions to test.

3 Dec 2009: However, this variable is not a good measure of the true economic circumstances of the households. ... formation) and prevent economic status from confounding the findings as much as possible.