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, children's peers are complementary to financial investment by parents, while the adult role models are substitutes. In contrast … of a convex relation in rural and urban Indonesia. The rural-urban relative mobility curves cross, with the children of … children when the father has more than nine years of schooling. However, the rural children face lower absolute mobility across …
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experiment provided information to parents about how to support their children's learning. Overall, the interventions induced …Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … effects among indigenous parents who have historically been discriminated and socially excluded - and improved student …
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guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading. Three years after the end … of the intervention, the receptive vocabulary and the socio-emotional development of children of families participating … in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0.43 and 0.54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of …
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intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections …. Parents may underestimate a girl's ability, expect lower returns, and assign lower weights to their welfare ("pure son … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …
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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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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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in childhood on primary school enrollment status, using pseudo-panel data for children ages six to nine years in …-a difference of 8 to 10 percentage points-for children ages six to seven. It is also strong in rural areas. The results are …
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. It compares the outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time …
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