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Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature … parents and the type of relationship that links the children to their "adoptive" families. The results of the analysis suggest …, more nurture, or both? The author uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children …
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paper provides evidence on economic mobility in post-reform India by focusing on the educational attainment of children. It … benefiting the most. Almost 70 percent of the variance in children's education can be accounted for by parental education and …
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It is known that Muslim women in Nigeria have significantly worse nutritional status than their Christian counterparts. The paper first shows that this difference is explained by covariates including geographic location, ethnicity, household wealth, and women’s education. However, on...
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This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first part provides a review of the evidence on these...
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The authors use a nationally representative household survey to estimate returns to schooling in Venezuela from instrumental variables based on a supply-side intervention in the education market. These estimates apply to a subgroup of liquidity-constrained individuals, in the spirit of the Local...
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schooling investments and labor market outcomes using unique data from a recent survey that tracked students in the Philippines …. The empirical results, which are based on a comparison of students who graduated from schools located in adjacent …
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who are traditionally favored by parents for school participation, including boys, older children, and higher ability … or unconditional. Families under the conditional schemes were required to have their children ages 7-15 enrolled in … indicate that unconditional and conditional cash transfer programs have a similar impact increasing the enrollment of children …
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that, at most, there are very small effects on total enrollment. These small effects may be driven by some students being …
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This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on inter-national migration by educational attainment. The authors use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided...
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preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the comparison …
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