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Patterns in household demand and saving
Lluch, Constantino - 1977
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Brazil : Measuring Poverty Using Household Consumption
World Bank - 2012
This report on measuring poverty using household consumption summarizes the work undertaken as part of the Brazil …
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Primary education in India
1997
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Expanding and Improving Upper Primary Education in India
World Bank - 2013
This report considers the current status of upper primary school education in India. It looks at future impacts and …
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Gender and governance in rural services : insights from India, Ghana, and Ethiopia
2010
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Gender and Governance in Rural Services : Insights from India, Ghana, and Ethiopia
World Bank - 2012
As the first output from the gender and governance in rural services project, this report presents descriptive findings … and qualitative analysis of accountability mechanisms in agricultural extension and rural water supply in India, Ghana …, and Ethiopia, paying specific attention to gender responsiveness. The gender and governance in rural services project …
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Natural disasters and human capital accumulation
Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesús - 2009
"The author assesses empirically the relationship between natural disaster risk and investment in education. Although the results in the empirical literature tend to be inconclusive, using model averaging methods in the framework of cross-country and panel regressions, this paper finds an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394156
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Natural disasters, self-insurance and human capital investment : evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2009
biological human capital. Asset holdings prior to the disasters, especially the household's stock of intellectual human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394204
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Cash transfers, behavioral changes, and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment
Macours, Karen - 2008
"A variety of theories of skill formation suggest that investments in schooling and other dimensions of human capital will have lower returns if children do not have adequate levels of cognitive and social skills at an early age. This paper analyzes the impact of a randomized cash transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521000
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Aggregate economic shocks, child schooling and child health
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2008
"Do aggregate economic shocks, such as those caused by macroeconomic crises or droughts, reduce child human capital? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in children, they may transmit poverty from one generation to the next. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521058