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Female Household-Headship in Rural Bangladesh: Incidence, Determinants and Impact on Children's Schooling Shareen Joshi

Joshi, Shareen - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004

This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants....

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Migration, Trade, Capital and Development: Substitutes, Complements and Policies

Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2007

Migration of the unskilled clearly benefits the origin country, mainly due to the flow of remittances but also if the … migration. The impact of such flows on the destination country is more ambiguous, although most research indicates that wages … and employment are not likely to be seriously affected. Migration of the skilled is ambiguous with respect to the origin …

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Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle

Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2014

stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can exacerbate the negative impact of adverse weather on harvest-stage wages …. Using Indian household panel data describing early-season migration and district-level planting- and harveststage wages over …

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The Impact of Migrant Workers on the Japanese Economy: Trickle vs. Flood.

Goto, J. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996

to the current Japanese immigration law but who have been dramatically increasing in recent years. …

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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal

Meghir, Costas; Momaerts, Corina; Carneiro, Pedro; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...

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Technology and Human Development

Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2011

Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate further advances in human development. This paper focuses on the first channel above and finds the relationship significant. Secondly, the paper tries to investigate what affects...

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The New Model of Foreign Aid Drawn from the Experiences of Japan and the United States

Ranis, Gustav; Kosack, Stephen; Togo, Ken - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2011

This paper compares Japan and the US as they provide different types of capital to the developing world, focusing especially on foreign aid and, to some extent, also on remittances and the role of NGOs. The main focus is on the quality of aid and on past conceptual differences and on an emerging...

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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

Meghir, Costas; Attanasio, Orazio; Cattan, Sarah; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2015

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...

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Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins

Zhang, Junsen; Rosenzweig, Mark - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012

Data from two surveys of twins in China are used to contribute to an improved understanding of the role of economic development in affecting gender differences in the trends in, levels of, and returns to schooling observed in China and in many developing countries in recent decades. In...

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Escaping Famine through Seasonal Migration

Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2013

explained qualitatively by a model in which migration is risky, mitigating risk requires individual-specific learning, and some … migrants are sufficiently close to subsistence such that failed migration is very costly. We document evidence consistent with …

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