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no difference in the change of Hb levels between control and treatment students. Parents in the treatment group did learn … male students, and that this difference was statistically significant. We conjecture that the parents of female students … training program on the nutritional status of primary school students in rural Shaanxi Province, in Northwest China. Using …
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the start of junior high increases the rate at which disadvantaged students matriculate into high school. Based on a … randomized controlled trial involving 1,418 disadvantaged (economically poor) students in rural China, we find that the promise …, that providing the CCT increases high school matriculation among the subset of disadvantaged students who overestimate the …
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Recent studies have shown that only about two-thirds of the students from poor, rural areas in China finish junior high … school and enter high school. One factor that may be behind the low rates of high school attendance is that students may be … trial (RCT) using a sample of 131 junior high schools and more than 12,000 students to test the effects of providing …
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the three components mean child income, demographic circumstances and the distribution of child income. Child poverty is … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The … of child income as well as in the demographic composition. -- child poverty ; economic growth ; Bangladesh ; China …
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characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events using data from the Household Income … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has …
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This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have … developed since 1988, with an emphasis on the period from 2007 to 2013. We use data from the China Household Income Project …, expressed as the constant purchasing power, continued between 2007 and 2013. We also show that income growth from 2007 to 2013 …
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