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Families, schools, and primary-school learning : evidence for Argentina and Colombia in an international perspective
Woffmann, Ludger - 2005
primary school in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Colombia, as well as several comparison countries. The database …,300 students in Argentina and 5,131 students in Colombia. The emerging general pattern of results is that educational performance …' resource endowments. In an international perspective, estimated family background effects are relatively large in Argentina …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522662
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The anatomy of a multiple crisis : why was Argentina special and what can we learn from it?
Perry, Guillermo - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523354
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Regional labor market developments in transition
Huber, Peter - 2006
"The author analyzes regional labor market disparities in transition by presenting some data and summarizing existing literature. He finds that large and persistent regional labor market disparities developed in virtually all transition countries and that there is some evidence of polarization....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522164
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Spatial dynamics of labor markets in Brazil
Chomitz, Kenneth M. (contributor) - 2005
"There was substantial spatial variation in labor market outcomes in Brazil over the 1990s. In 2000, about one-fifth of workers lived in apparently economically stagnant municipios where real wages declined but employment increased faster than the national population growth rate. More than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522448
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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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Orphanhood and the living arrangements of children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2009
"Increasing adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa raises considerable concerns about the welfare of surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child health and education. One hypothesis for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394183
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Risks, ex-ante actions and public assistance : impacts of natural disasters on child schooling in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2009
"This paper examines the impacts of natural disasters on schooling investments with special focus on the roles of ex-ante actions and ex-post responses using panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The importance of ex-ante actions depends on disaster risks and the likelihood of public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394203
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel - 2009
"This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394219
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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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Promotion with and without learning : effects on student enrollment and dropout behavior
King, Elizabeth M. - 2008
"Many educators and policymakers have argued for lenient grade promotion policy - even automatic promotion - in developing country settings where grade retention rates are high. The argument assumes that grade retention discourages persistence or continuation in school and that the promotion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521037