Intrahousehold Allocation of Education Expenditure and Returns to Education: The Case of Sri Lanka
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- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2008-05-17 (Education)
- NEP-HRM-2008-05-17 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2008-05-17 (Labour Economics)
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