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The link between household poverty and child labor is much stronger in Pakistan than in Peru. Providing good schools in … hours and poverty and a negative association between child schooling and poverty. Both hypotheses are confirmed using … Pakistani data but not using Peruvian data. What explains these divergent results? The link between household poverty and child …
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predicted to induce increased school enrollment for children whose families wish to optimally invest in their children’s future …. However, low incomes and the obligation to meet immediate needs may forestall such investment. Studies suggest that school …
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examine the timing and duration of exposure to poverty in neighbourhood and school contexts between ages 10 and 16, to predict … achievement, independent of school poverty. Furthermore, we found that for neighbourhood poverty, especially enduring exposure … impacts on educational achievement, while the timing of exposure does not play a role. However, for school poverty, both …
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educated parents while the opposite is true for private school enrolment. Moreover, girls are significantly more likely to be … characteristics, parental background, and village characteristics. Therefore policies that reduce household poverty are likely to … school choice in Indonesia. …
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Under the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), schools serving sufficiently high-poverty populations may enroll their …, focusing on the use of suspensions. We use school discipline measures from the Civil Rights Data Collection and rely on the … timing of pilot implementation of CEP across states to assess how disciplinary infractions evolve within a school as it …
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strongly related to test-score gaps, with poverty segregation between school districts especially important in New England. The …-score gaps in high-poverty metropolitan areas. All U.S. states distribute some state revenue to support local school districts … socioeconomic test-score gaps than metro areas with lower district poverty in states with less progressive school aid, such as …
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,parental time poverty increases children’s walking hours to and from school and private schoolenrolment. We observed heterogeneity … school attendance-reducingeffect of parental time poverty is mainly prevalent among male children but mixed for location … primary channel through which time poverty influences childwork and school attendance …
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learning growth.This paper - a joint product of the Social Protection Sector Unit and the Poverty Sector Unit, Latin America …
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