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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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"This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self …-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a … reference point for new sample data from Venezuela. Having greater perceived income than one's siblings is found to be …
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