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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: 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: 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: measures of ‘native ability’ scores from tests (such as the Ravens test) in earnings functions. ... Our tests, however, were administered in Urdu. Therefore, these people’s inability to comprehend the literacy test possibly captured their inability

3 Dec 2009: Some prominent CSS in elementary education were designed after the introduction of New Economic Policy. ... Source: Economic survey (various years), WPI from Office of the economic adviser, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

30 Nov 2009: the economic success of Cambridge Assessment and the Press, which operate in challenging international markets and in worsening economic conditions. ... An audit includes examination, on a test basis, of evidence relevant to the amounts and disclosures

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.

24 Aug 2009: This exacerbated the economic slowdown that had already begun, initially in the US, but later spreading to a global economic recession. ... An audit includes an examination, on a test basis, of evidence relevant to the amounts and disclosures in the

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: 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: 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.

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: 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: 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).

25 Mar 2009: as India and Africa pledged to work as partners to solve economic and development challenges. ... Importantly, emerging industries such as renewable energy provide the platform for future economic growth.

16 Oct 2009: This therefore provides the basis to test directly the associations between age and reported cause that Landers could only crudely estimate. ... The burial patterns are then analysed to test whether there is any evidence for a process of endemicisation

3 Dec 2009: primary, that has an impact on the economic environment. Furthermore, the World Bank’s Constructing. ... 12. institutional capacity that is required for economic growth and poverty reduction (World Bank, 2002, p.

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):

9 Dec 2009: More recently, Lord Jenkins inserted a working definition of academic freedom into the Education Reform Act 1988 ‘to ensure that academic staff have freedom within the law to question and test ... The proposed changes to the procedures relating to

22 Dec 2009: m2, IQR = 10558; after treatment = 2319, IQR = 4534; Wilcoxon signed ranks test Z16,16 = -1.81, P = 0.07). ... Assess the feasibility of establishing economic activities that promote sustainable livelihoods and reduce negative human-elephant conflict;.