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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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education policy literature. This study seeks to identify the good policies and practices that lead students in some municipal …
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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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Providing at least basic education to all children especially those coming from poor or disadvantaged families is an … the measures that will secure access to quality education for all children above all to those who are under higher risk of … basic children's right- access to education; chapter five and six sets paths for making chosen policy options sustainable …
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"There has not been much change in the premium to primary education, while the returns to secondary education increased, but by less than the premium to university. The returns to incomplete university also increased significantly. There is a signal that there might be credentialism at the...
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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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"Formal and informal commercial sex work is a way of life for many poor women in developing countries. Though sex workers have long been identified as crucial in affecting the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, the nature of sex-for-money transactions remains poorly...
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contributed to raise purchase prices and the cash income of vanilla farmers. But the effect on farmers' consumption remains small …
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