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among its individual members. They look at how these differences in land holdings and education affect what sons and … daughters will earn over their lifetimes. To help right gender imbalances, the authors consider policies to encourage adoption … conflict between policies to enhance the efficiency of investments in land and human capital and policies to promote gender …
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, Hilary Sims Feldstein, and Guadalupe Duron Brief 6. Education / Elizabeth M. King and Harold Alderman Brief 7. Labor Markets …
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extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote gender equality and empower women 4. Reduce child …
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more active measures in key areas such as control over land, water, and other assets, and investment in education, health …
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more active measures in key areas such as control over land, water, and other assets, and investment in education, health …
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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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the type of land that is more intensive in their own work effort. While gender bias is either non-existent or small in … land inheritance, daughters tend to be disadvantaged with respect to schooling. The gender gap in schooling, however …
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-schooling experiences. We use an indicator of whether the child was stunted (child height-for-age Z-score < –2) as our representation of … reading-comprehension scores of not being stunted at age 6 is equivalent to the impact of four grades of schooling. These …
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"This paper investigates children's time allocation to schooling, home production, and market production using a unique data set collected from northern Mali. Production shocks from harvest period pest infestations induce households to withdraw children from school and increase the probability...
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aspects of new agricultural technology interventions and the policy processes of food- and cash-based education incentive …. The paper then examines the motivation and policy processes of the Food for Education program and its subsequent … replacement, the cash-based Primary Education Stipend program. The study reviews similarities and differences among selected …
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