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countries where panel data to follow children over time exists, there are few substantive changes in scores once children enter …
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that either directly support the education of children with disabled parents and/or have policies that support disabled …This paper examines the effect of parental disability on school enrollment and educational performance for children in … the 2006 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey. Results from instrumental-variables regressions indicate that children …
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paper provides evidence on economic mobility in post-reform India by focusing on the educational attainment of children. It … benefiting the most. Almost 70 percent of the variance in children's education can be accounted for by parental education and …
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her child's health. Mothers exposed to conflict during their childhood have more children and live in less wealthy … households, likely reducing their ability to invest during their children?s critical period of physical development. The finding … points to a potential trade-off between the quantity and quality of children. The paper uses information on monthly conflict …
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This paper examines how parents' early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children's health status … treatment. The findings show that children who were born to parents who were living closer to refugee camps during their early …
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In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while … data on students are not available. The paper shows that data on test scores of the student's current and the previous year …. Assigning more students to better teachers would potentially lead to substantial cost-savings, even if there are negative class …
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It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the …
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Socioeconomic segregation is often decried for denying poorer children the benefits of positive' peer effects'. Yet …
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markets platinum credit cards to high-income customers. In a first experiment, the paper shows that demand for the platinum …
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It is known that Muslim women in Nigeria have significantly worse nutritional status than their Christian counterparts. The paper first shows that this difference is explained by covariates including geographic location, ethnicity, household wealth, and women?s education. However, on accounting...
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