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Though parental education is widely perceived to be an important determinant of child nutrition outcomes, there remain … significant uncertainties about whether maternal or paternal education matters most, whether there are increasing or decreasing … returns to parental education, and whether these returns are robust given that recent gains in enrollment have not always …
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Philippine Labor Force Survey support that family arrangement to tighten commitment between daughters and parents keeps a high … relatively important as a determinant of their earnings, parental investments in their daughters’ education has larger impacts … on the income of their daughters than on their sons. Parents expect larger income shared from better-educated adult …
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-level income functions. The accepted practice in the literature is to use the education level of the household head. This paper …This paper aims to answer how best to model education attainment, which is an individual-level variable, in household … compares the head-of-household model to three competing models and concludes that the maximum or average level of education in …
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will also see income growth. Both will put increased pressure on the natural resources needed to produce food, and climate …
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"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 …
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quality, and labor market opportunities play equal or even greater roles in the decision to have children work. This study … efforts to bolster adult educational levels and wages will help curb the prevalence and intensity of child labor and improve … the likelihood that children stay in school. " Author's Abstract …
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"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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quality, and labor market opportunities play equal or even greater roles in the decision to have children work. This study … efforts to bolster adult educational levels and wages will help curb the prevalence and intensity of child labor and improve … the likelihood that children stay in school. " Author's Abstract …
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