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Parental training, anemia and the impact on the nutrition of female students in China's poor rural elementary schools
Shi, Yaojiang; Chang, Fang; Su, Xiaoqing; Renfu, Luo; … - In: China agricultural economic review : publ. in … 4 (2012) 2, pp. 151-167
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Early parenting interventions to foster human capital in developing countries
Emmers, Dorien; Caro, Juan Carlos; Rozelle, Scott; … - In: Annual review of resource economics 14 (2022), pp. 169-192
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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022
Longitudinal Survey of Youths which we follow from 16 to 28. We discuss the evolution of family income and ability effects where … component correlated with family income and background variables. We find that the individual cognitive-technical ability … differential prevailing at 16 was increasing with income in the early 80's but much less so in the early 2000's. We find no …
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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013355190
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The impact of pay-for-percentile incentive on low-achieving students in rural China
Chang, Fang; Wang, Huan; Qu, Yaqiong; Zheng, Qiang; … - In: Economics of education review 75 (2020), pp. 1-10
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The Correlation of Expenditure on School Level and Students’ Academic Performance : Based on the Empirical Study in Western Poor Rural China
Li, Lili - 2019
western rural China, the empirical study found that school expenditures on students and teachers account for only 12% of total … expenditures, while expenditures on school administration is as high as 72%. Expenditures on students and teachers (software) are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869169
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Do Poor Students Benefit from China's Merger Program? Transfer Path and Educational Performance
Chen, Xinxin; Yi, Hongmei; Zhang, Linxiu; Mo, Di; Chu, James - 2014
Aiming to provide better education facilities and improve the educational attainment of poor rural students, China …. To accompany the policy, boarding facilities have been constructed that allow (mandate) primary school-aged children to … and investment programmes on the educational performance of students. Drawing on a unique dataset that records both the …
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The effect of opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills in early childhood
Cyron, Laura; Schwerdt, Guido; Viarengo, Martina - 2016
We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the … covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn children in a family is arguably exogenous. With regard to cognitive …
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Poor vision among China's rural primary school students : prevalence, correlates and consequences
Yi, Hongmei; Zhang, Linxiu; Ma, Xiaochen; Congdon, Nathan; … - In: China economic review : an international journal 33 (2015), pp. 247-262
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Earnings dispersion, risk aversion and eduation
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002
We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...
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