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children participate, focusing on that work's impact on schooling, health, as well as externalities associated with that work …, family interactions, the net return to schooling, and poverty. Section 5 discusses the limited evidence on different policy …
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Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...
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effects on schooling outcomes. These findings suggest a previously undocumented indirect effect of drug policies on household …
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Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor … experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in child labor. However, communities that relied heavily on employment in … protected industries before liberalization do not experience as large an increase in schooling or decline in child labor. The …
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This paper develops and estimates a simple structural model of household decisions regarding child labor and schooling … and lower schooling. The results reconcile economic theory with seemingly contradictory evidence from the previous …
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increase schooling and reduce child labour. Although international remittances are found to have a stronger beneficial impact …
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Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are … have twelve years of schooling, on average. Particularly noteworthy is that as many as 45 percent of adult rural Hui …. We show that the incentive to invest in length of schooling is smaller among Hui than Han as the association between …
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During the last decade knowledge about human behavior from psychology and sociology has enhanced the field of economics of education. By now research recognizes cognitive skills (as measured by achievement tests) and soft skills (personality traits not adequately measured by achievement tests)...
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educational attainment compared to a large-scale government conditional cash transfer program to encourage female schooling. …
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end of the compulsory schooling period. We also determine whether there are differential effects for literacy and numeracy …
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