Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in … children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important … of paternal and maternal shocks on different cohort groups, roles of cognitive abilities of children and quality of …

. Data from 135 couples and their children show that the father's risk aversion is negatively associated with school … evidence that points to a preference for current income generated by the employment of boys in high-value cash crop production …

proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I … increased by 2 per cent. I further show that consolidation decreased the proportion of high scorers among grade 5 students by 0 ….08 and did not decrease the proportion of high scorers among grade 8 students by more than 0.02. School consolidation is a …

2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

students, a group of disadvantaged Black and mixed-race students from low-income families and with lower levels of education … and environment, impacting students' efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top … and labour market outcomes. The rule creates two potential effects on students: peer and ranking effects. The last student …

Can students' rank in the ability distribution of their class impact their academic achievement? We aim to answer this … question using a discontinuity generated by a rule for the distribution of students between classes at a prestigious Brazilian … the best students in the university entrance exam to the group that starts in the first semester, and the other 50 per …

work, household chores, and school related activities of Guatemalan children between 2000 and 2011. The paper also exploits … conditional on having stayed in school for time t. Results suggest that working children are two to four times more likely to drop … out of school or to have never enrolled than the rest of the children in the sample. The findings also reveal the …

differences between party members and others. Results suggest that party membership has a moderate positive effect on income, on … the order of seven per cent, and a large positive effect on subjective well-being, even after controlling for income … credit and to boost income from farm and non-farm enterprises. There are strong gender effects: men are several times more …

Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … cent increase in schooling among children with disabilities within three years. The estimate is driven by enrolment across …