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Child Marriage, Early Childbearing, Low Educational Attainment for Girls, and Their Impacts in Uganda

Wodon, Quentin - 2017

The proportions of girls marrying or having children before the age of 18 have been declining in Uganda according to data from the latest publicly available Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) implemented in 2011. Yet despite progress, more than one third of girls still marry as children, and...

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Trends and Linkages in Schooling and Work among Cambodian Youth : A Cohort Panel Analysis

Huang, Haijing - 2017

allocation toward education, which reached 15.7 percent in 2001 (GAD/C 2002). Recent generations of youth enjoy greater access to … schooling than previous ones; 49 percent of youth finish their education at a level higher than their father and 63 percent …

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Trends and Linkages in Schooling and Work Among Cambodian Youth : A Synthetic Panel Analysis

World Bank Group - 2019

their life cycle trajectories as these cohorts aged from youth into early adulthood. This approach allows us to control for … differences in improvement or decline when comparing males versus females, rural versus urban youth?" Using the variation in … experiences across cohorts, we are additionally able provide evidence on how early youth experiences translate to outcomes later …

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A Longitudinal Analysis Linking Test Scores and Later Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Outcomes Among Cambodian Youth

World Bank Group - 2019

In this note, we examine how Cambodian youth's test score performance during lower secondary relates to their success …

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On Minimizing the Risk of Bias in Randomized Controlled Trials in Economics

Eble, Alex - 2016

Estimation of empirical relationships is prone to bias. Economists have carefully studied sources of bias in structural …

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Estimation of Climate Change Damage Functions for 140 Regions in the GTAP9 Database

Roson, Roberto - 2016

Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...

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Bulgaria : Piloting Statistical Models for Estimation of Schools' Value-Added Using the Results from the National Assessments

Danchev, Plamen - 2015

The objective of this report is to document the process and summarize the results from the second phase of the pilot implementation of statistical models for measuring the value-added of Bulgarian schools through analysis of the national student' assessments results. This report presents the...

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Exchange Rate Volatility and FDI Inflows : Evidence from Cross-Country Panel Data

Hanusch, Marek - 2018

Using a panel of 80 developing and developed countries for the period 1990-2015, this studyanalyses the relationship between exchange rate volatility and foreign direct investment (FDI)inflows. The results reveal a negative relationship between de facto exchange rate volatility andFDI. Reducing...

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Estimating Conditional Functional Multipliers

Asea, Patrick K. - 2016

Spending based fiscal adjustment requires decisions on when? and how much to cut public spending to minimise adverce effects on economic growth. This requires precise estimates of the response of output to changes in the functional components of public spending. I call this the functional...

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Gradual Versus Big-Bang Devaluations : An Empirical Analysis

Geiger, Michael - 2018

This paper examines the pros and cons of gradual versus big-bang approaches toward devaluations. It presents original empirical evidence regarding output, consumption, investment and trade balances associated with gradual and big-bang devaluation episodes. It finds that big-bang devaluations are...

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