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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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, 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 provides a comprehensive review of agricultural policy and public agricultural expenditure (PAE) in China. China shifted away from taxing agriculture to supporting agriculture in the mid-2000s, but the sector faces mounting demographic, biophysical, and trade challenges. PAE in China...
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investigates the causes of South Africa's persistent schooling imbalances, examining education laws and policies, as well as other …
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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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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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"This paper examines the effects of early childhood nutrition on schooling inputs and outcomes to assess the dynamic … repetition in the early stage of schooling. However, this positive effect diminishes at later stages. The results also show that … wealthier households may invest more in less well endowed children in an attempt to reduce sibling inequality. However, fewer …
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