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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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Uzbekistan is a lower middle-income country of 29.5 million people, located in Central Asia, with an economy that has … be realized from investing in pre-primary education ranging from promoting children s school readiness to equalizing … opportunities across the income distribution, policymakers are keen to explore ways to expand access and promote the provision of …
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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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[...]In this article, we measure banks’ alternative fundingsources for Fedwire funds transfers throughout the day, usinga data set that includes all banks’ Fedwire funds transfers andFederal Reserve System deposits. This approach allows us togauge the importance of incoming payments as a...
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of the household’s income, andthe household’s assessment of the quality of its neighborhoodand of its local public … services. In this paper, weexamine trends in housing outcomes over the past twodecades for income quintiles, controlling for …
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This paper explores changes in the relationship betweenrace, income, and criminal victimization over time. Interestin … income earned by the top 5 percentof American families increased from 15.3 percent to 20.1 percent.Families in the bottom …
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indicate that theearnings of low-income and historically disadvantagedworkers rose faster in 1997 and 1998 than those of …
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now furnish material onsources of noninterest income and the amounts earned thatis much more detailed than the information …
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This paper explores the connections betweenbroad economic indicators in the New Yorkmetropolitan region and their national counterparts.It compares the performance of theregion in recent years with that of the nation and assessesthe importance of national and local developments for thearea’s...
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