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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 …
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Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
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targeting parents of children aged six to 24 months in a poor, rural district of Rwanda. The programme engaged parents through … baseline, children's communication, problem-solving, and personal social skills improved in treated groups. After almost three … resulted in increases in maternal time investments in both the short and the medium term, as well as improvements in parents …
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parental time investments in early childhood among low-income parents. We designed and screened a video that provided …, we added a positive feedback message to parents about their accomplishments during their participation in an earlier … suggests a potentially important role for social networks in parenting interventions in low-income settings. …
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. 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 …
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on for several generations. Finally, we assess how parents' education affects the educational outcomes of their children … of individual labour income inequality between 1996 and 2014. Coincidentally, in the Brazilian National Household Sample … education between 14 and 31.5 per cent. On the other hand, omitting parents' education information also accounting for …
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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 …
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We exploit the variation in the admissions process across colleges of a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on: cognitive attainment using scores on standardized university exams; behavioural preferences such as risk, competitiveness, and...
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2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …
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direct and indirect costs of acquiring post-primary education and allowed more students to enrol, which provided access to …
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