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, good long-term nutritional status) helps insure resilience to disasters by protecting schooling investments and outcomes … frequent, repeated drought exposure reduces schooling investments in some cases, with larger negative impacts seen among … stock in the household) also help maintain schooling investments to at least the same degree as the stock of human capital …
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"This paper investigates children's time allocation to schooling, home production, and market production using a unique … withdraw children from school and increase the probability that they are selected into farm work. Health shocks to women … shocks. Assets such as livestock have mixed effects on child labor and schooling, depending on the shock and asset type …
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"This paper assesses the impact of prime-age mortality on human capital formation and labor markets by examining, first …
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"This paper examines the impact of prime-age adult mortality on the transition from school to the labor market of … period—1998–2004—when South Africa experienced excess mortality due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. We find, first, that deaths of … schooling in order to help support their families. Female school enrollment may also decrease because girls are required to stay …
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, malnutrition, and poorer access to health care and schooling, early intervention is critical so as to avoid the potential poverty … results show that maternal orphans, as well as double orphans, tend to face higher mortality risks and lower schooling …"A tremendous increase in the number of orphans associated with a sharp rise in prime-age adult mortality due to AIDS …
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rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys covering the period from 1997 to 2011. …
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vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …
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vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …
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vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …
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specific investments in education, health, and nutrition. The paper first describes PROGRESA/Oportunidades and estimates of the … of contributions to evolving conventional wisdom) on topics including food subsidy programs, nutrition, health, gender …
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