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from birth until the end of their primary education. We find that malnourished children perform more poorly in school, even …
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Few policies are as universally accepted as raising primary school enrolment in developing countries, but the policy levers for achieving this goal are not straight forward. This paper merges household survey data with detailed school supply characteristics from official sources, in order to...
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of PROGRESA on education, health, and nutrition as well as in other areas, such as women's status and work incentives. …
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This paper aims to answer how best to model education attainment, which is an individual-level variable, in household …-level income functions. The accepted practice in the literature is to use the education level of the household head. This paper … compares the head-of-household model to three competing models and concludes that the maximum or average level of education in …
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This report reevaluates PROGRESA's targeting methods since the program began adding beneficiary households through a process called “densification.” The authors first evaluate PROGRESA's accuracy in targeting both at the community and household levels. Second, they evaluate the targeting in...
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"Early childhood nutrition is thought to have important effects on education, broadly defined to include various forms … of learning. We advance beyond previous literature on early childhood nut ition on education in developing countries by …
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, grandparents significantly affect gender-specific investments in children's education only in resource-constrained families. Family … grandfathers, may also have an advantage. The secular expansion of education has contributed much to the increased educational … attainment of women. Better educated fathers favor daughters in terms of education, while mothers with more land favor sons …
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"Child labor is widespread in developing countries, but its causes are debatable. Poverty is considered the primary reason, but many theoretical and empirical analyses show that other factors, such as lack of access to credit, poor school quality, and labor market opportunities play equal or...
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