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Land and schooling: Transferring wealth across generations

Quisumbing, Agnes R. (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

among its individual members. They look at how these differences in land holdings and education affect what sons and …

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Empowering women to achieve food security:

Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

, Hilary Sims Feldstein, and Guadalupe Duron Brief 6. Education / Elizabeth M. King and Harold Alderman Brief 7. Labor Markets …

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Increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa

Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

more active measures in key areas such as control over land, water, and other assets, and investment in education, health …

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Increasing the effective participation of women in food and nutrition security in Africa

Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2004

more active measures in key areas such as control over land, water, and other assets, and investment in education, health …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997066

The impact of an experimental nutritional intervention in childhood on education among Guatemalan adults:

Maluccio, John A.; Hoddinott, John; Behrman, Jere R.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"Studies have shown that malnourished children in developing countries score lower on tests of cognitive function and fail to acquire fine motor skills at the normal rate. Do the effects of nourishment—good or bad—in early childhood linger into adolescence and adulthood, or do they fade away...

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The impact of an experimental nutritional intervention in childhood on education among Guatemalan adults:

Maluccio, John A.; Hoddinott, John; Behrman, Jere R.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

"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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The extended family and intrahousehold allocation

Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1995

, 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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Land inheritance and schooling in matrilineal societies: evidence from Sumatra

Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Otsuka, Keijiro - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

This paper explores statistically the implications of the shift from communal to individualized tenure on the distribution of land and schooling between sons and daughters in matrilineal societies, based on a Sumatra case study. The inheritance system is evolving from a strictly matrilineal...

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Natural disasters, self-Insurance, and human capital investment: Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi

Yamauchi, Futoshi; Yohannes, Yisehac; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"This paper uses panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi to examine the impacts of disasters on dynamic human capital production. Our empirical results show that accumulation of biological human capital prior to a disaster helps children maintain investments during the post-disaster...

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