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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? De Walque uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children living …
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surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child …
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"Patrinos and Sakellariou 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...
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chosen preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the …
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In the last 15 years, Indonesia has introduced a comprehensive package of education reforms designed to expand access and improve quality. A key component of the reform process has been the devolution of responsibility for basic education services to local governments and schools. The ability of...
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"This paper examines the impacts of natural disasters on schooling investments with special focus on the roles of ex-ante actions and ex-post responses using panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The importance of ex-ante actions depends on disaster risks and the likelihood of public...
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likely to face considerable exposure to uninsured income risk, such resource flows should translate into better risk bearing … very young children are particularly vulnerable to shocks that lead to growth faltering, with substantial long-term health … income shocks. After accounting for selection into migration, the results indicate that migration has a substantially larger …
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