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I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school. Moreover, I use … elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the shock-induced loss in purchasing power had an immediate effect on … enrolment rates. Instrumental variable estimates show that the effect of household income on children's school enrolment is much …
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I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school.* Moreover, I use … elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the shock-induced loss in purchasing power had an immediate effect on … enrolment rates. Instrumental variable estimates show that the effect of household income on children’s school enrolment is much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602810
Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the...
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Empirical evidence suggests that regional disparities in incomes are often very high, that these disparities do not necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel approach based on multilevel modeling to decompose the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005589950
There is a well-known debate about the respective roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and...
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There is a well-known debate about the respective roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005399366
earnings, empirical evidence on the role played by school quality is scarce. This paper combines household survey data with … unique data on school quality, from Honduras, to study the importance of school quality as a determinant of earnings. Our … objective measures of school quality capture teacher training, school infrastructure and school crowding. The results diaplay …
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insurance (CBHI) schemes have been functioning in rural India. These CBHI schemes may design their benefit packages according to … of India’s poorest states.1 We find that the majority of respondents do access some form of care and that there is …
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The south Indian state of Tamil Nadu is a relatively recent entrant to the list of Indian states exhibiting the phenomenon of "missing girls". A substantial proportion of these missing girls may be attributed to the differential survival of girls and boys in the 0-6 age group due to daughter...
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