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Are smarter machines our children's friends? Or can they bring about a transfer from our relatively unskilled children to ourselves that leaves our children and, indeed, all our descendants - worse off?
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back into the evolution of average fertility across generations. Theory predicts that changes in the relationship between …
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modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined in a …
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poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty … and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be …
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …
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How do aspirations influence investment decisions for people living in poverty? Does this change as peoples economic … similar effects to cash alone, potentially because cash raises aspirations. Thus, helping people living in poverty set higher …
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-based poverty traps within the observed range of transfers and with this study-level analytical method. Fourth, effects on …
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Schooling may build human capital not only by teaching academic skills, but by expanding the capacity for cognition itself. We focus specifically on cognitive endurance: the ability to sustain effortful mental activity over a continuous stretch of time. As motivation, we document that globally...
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We provide experimental evidence on the intergenerational impacts of secondary education subsidies in a low-income context, leveraging a randomized controlled trial and 15-year longitudinal follow-up. For young women, receiving a scholarship for secondary school delays childbearing and marriage,...
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This paper presents a new approach to measuring the intergenerational transmission of well-being and a novel perspective on which measures and what age ranges to use to estimate intergenerational social mobility. We select the measures and the age ranges that best predict important human capital...
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