Investment in education-inputs and incentives

Handbook of Development Economics

Volumn 5, Issue C, 2010, Pages 4883-4975

  Behrman, Jere R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional cash transfers; Demand side educational policies; Early childhood development; Economic development; Education; Educational product markets; Experimental trials; Human capital; Incentives for education; Knowledge; Labor markets; Learning by doing; Preschool programs; Program evaluation; School vouchers; Schooling; Skills; Student incentives; Supply side educational policies; Teacher incentives; Teacher markets; Test scores; Training programs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864379205     PISSN: 15734471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52944-2.00011-2     Document Type: Article

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