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27 Aug 2009: Further experi-mental trials are needed to test the performance of bees as an elephant deterrent (King et al. ... Assess the feasibility of establishing economic activities that promote sustainable livelihoods and reduce negative human-elephant conflict;.

11 Sep 2009: able to use ICT for meaningful ends….reducing marginalization, poverty and inequality and enhancing economic and social inclusion for all” (Warschauer, 2003, p.

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: Behrman, J. R., and B. Wolfe. 1984. “The Socio-economic Impact of Schooling in a Developing Country.” Review of Economics and Statistics 66 (2): 296–303. ... Hanushek, Eric A. 2005. "The Economics of School Quality." German Economic Review 6 (3):

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

3 Dec 2009: between primary educationand economic development, on education financing, on development theoryand on economic adjustment in Africa. ... Bigo, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2007). Janet Raynor is an independent consultant in education.

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 Dec 2009: The test used by Levine and replicated here tests the fundamental implication of efficiency wage theory that marginal wage increases raise productivity sufficiently to pay for themselves. ... Hanushek, Eric (1986) “The Economics of Schooling:

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.

3 Dec 2009: They tend to be different if economics, on the one hand, or anthropology, on the other, are dominant. ... one hand, and a variety of human, social and economic outcomes on the other.

3 Dec 2009: to the 1993–94 National Council of Applied Economic Research. (NCAER) household survey, the actual share was 30.7%, again more. ... Note: The maximum marks possible in the math and reading tests were 36 and 29 respec-tively.

3 Dec 2009: Prior to the economic reforms in 1984, the educational sector suffered massive financing constraints which led to a serious shortage of teachers (i.e. ... Aid partnership has often been conditional on economic, environmental or social policies, such as

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: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 23, Number 2, 2007, pp.168 – 195. ... India’s recent economic growth rates have generated much optimism about its generalsocial and economic development.

3 Dec 2009: The extent to which education raises earnings is loosely called the economic ‘return’ to education. ... Federal Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Statistics, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan.

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.

3 Dec 2009: the Ravens Progressive Matrices test. The teacher questionnaire collected information on a range. ... Scholastic Achievement”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114(2): 533-75. Ballou, D. (2001).

3 Dec 2009: explanation for large gender gaps in education in Pakistan. We empirically test this. ... sizeable gender asymmetry in economic returns to education, with returns to women’s.

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: 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