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among its individual members. They look at how these differences in land holdings and education affect what sons and … daughters will earn over their lifetimes. To help right gender imbalances, the authors consider policies to encourage adoption … conflict between policies to enhance the efficiency of investments in land and human capital and policies to promote gender …
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, Hilary Sims Feldstein, and Guadalupe Duron Brief 6. Education / Elizabeth M. King and Harold Alderman Brief 7. Labor Markets …
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extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote gender equality and empower women 4. Reduce child …
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more active measures in key areas such as control over land, water, and other assets, and investment in education, health …
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more active measures in key areas such as control over land, water, and other assets, and investment in education, health …
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from birth until the end of their primary education. We find that malnourished children perform more poorly in school, even …
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the type of land that is more intensive in their own work effort. While gender bias is either non-existent or small in … land inheritance, daughters tend to be disadvantaged with respect to schooling. The gender gap in schooling, however …
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"Most investigations into the importance and determinants of adult cognitive skills assume that (1) they are produced primarily by schooling, and (2) schooling is statistically predetermined or exogenous. This study uses longitudinal data collected in Guatemala over 35 years to investigate...
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"This paper investigates children's time allocation to schooling, home production, and market production using a unique data set collected from northern Mali. Production shocks from harvest period pest infestations induce households to withdraw children from school and increase the probability...
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aspects of new agricultural technology interventions and the policy processes of food- and cash-based education incentive …. The paper then examines the motivation and policy processes of the Food for Education program and its subsequent … replacement, the cash-based Primary Education Stipend program. The study reviews similarities and differences among selected …
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