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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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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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affordability forhouseholds at the bottom of the income distribution. Real house prices at the lower end of the price distribution …
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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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results show that income, factor endowment, and policy independence are important to explain regional asymmetries between …
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for its 22 major regions. The paper argues that regional income differentials were significantly larger, that intra …
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