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"This paper assesses the impact of prime-age mortality on human capital formation and labor markets by examining, first, the impact on adolescents, who may leave school in order to enter the labor market, and second, the impact on adult females who, upon the loss of a breadwinner, may decide to...
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schooling in order to help support their families. Female school enrollment may also decrease because girls are required to stay … at home to take care of the sick. Therefore, the total negative impact on schooling is larger among female adolescents …
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"This paper investigates children's time allocation to schooling, home production, and market production using a unique … shocks. Assets such as livestock have mixed effects on child labor and schooling, depending on the shock and asset type …
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is to determine the effect that schooling has on HIV/AIDS excess mortality, using panel data from South Africa. This … paper tests the hypothesis that schooling affects when and who one marries and thus impacts the risk of mortality from HIV … for women, who need to increase their time spent in the household. Thus, schooling may increase mortality risks due to the …
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This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have...
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-scores, as well as schooling performance as measured by age at start of schooling and number of grades repeated. The interactions …
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Regression discontinuity design (RDD) is a useful tool for evaluating programs when a single variable is used to determine program eligibility. RDD has also been used to evaluate programs when eligibility is based on multiple variables that have been aggregated into a single index using...
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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 identifies the cumulative impact of early schooling investments on later schooling outcomes in the context … schooling. Using a child-level longitudinal dataset from rural Ethiopia, we estimate a dynamic conditional schooling demand … function where the coefficient estimate on the lagged dependent variable captures the impact of all previous periods’ schooling …
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"While nutritional intake in early childhood provides the basis for a child's health capital, investments in schooling …
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