Showing 1 - 10 of 35
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002660
surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003821478
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252143
the socioeconomic status of survey respondents at age 15, the educational attainment of their parents, their households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644422
Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388740
-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the … children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional … effects on children. The effects are particularly salient at the bottom of the distributions of outcomes. Drawing on insights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297484
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513322
on students' learning outcomes. Receiving the grant alone had no impact on either test scores or student participation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246291
and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008285
health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … taller and have 5.3 more years of schooling than their providers (usually their parents), while female offspring are 4 … helping children and youth build human capital through better health and education, which has led to positive returns in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114345