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, children's peers are complementary to financial investment by parents, while the adult role models are substitutes. In contrast … of a convex relation in rural and urban Indonesia. The rural-urban relative mobility curves cross, with the children of … children when the father has more than nine years of schooling. However, the rural children face lower absolute mobility across …
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The proportions of girls marrying or having children before the age of 18 have been declining in Uganda according to … than one third of girls still marry as children, and close to three in ten girls have their first child before turning 18 …
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workforce in the current world of work, little is known about the contribution they make to students' outcomes, above and beyond …
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the socioeconomic status of survey respondents at age 15, the educational attainment of their parents, their households …
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Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
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Many low- and middle-income countries lag far behind high-income countries in educational access and student learning …
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now gone through a demographic transition, with declining birth rates and an increase in the aging population, low-income …
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-farmer parents (with higher income) do not enjoy any advantages over the children of more educated farmer parents. Estimates of cross … across farm-nonfarm occupations. Having nonfarm parents, in general, has positive effects, but children of low educated non … of family background on children's education in villages, with a focus on the role of nonfarm occupations. The analysis …
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children. Of the 200 million children who do not reach their developmental potential worldwide, 66 percent live in South Asia … that contribute to the growth and development of children in early childhood. There are also large gaps in teachers …' understanding and practice of classroom accommodations for children with disabilities. The paper illustrates that educators, who …
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-term responses of a grant to school committees in Niger show that parents increased participation and responsibility, but these …
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