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Kiribati is among the first few countries in the world to have undertaken a national census of children's early health … and development. This report presents data collected for 7,194 children aged 3 to 5 years across 21 of the country …'s islands. Data were collected on children's health and development, their learning environments at home, and their early …
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her child's health. Mothers exposed to conflict during their childhood have more children and live in less wealthy … households, likely reducing their ability to invest during their children's critical period of physical development. The finding … points to a potential trade-off between the quantity and quality of children. The paper uses information on monthly conflict …
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the socioeconomic status of survey respondents at age 15, the educational attainment of their parents, their households …
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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...
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-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 …
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on students' learning outcomes. Receiving the grant alone had no impact on either test scores or student participation …
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mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and …
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and a social return of 10 percent. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion …
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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 …
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This paper examines how parents' early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children's health status … treatment. The findings show that children who were born to parents who were living closer to refugee camps during their early …
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