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(young) adults who worked as children. The authors find no significant effects on health. Over a longer horizon, they …
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"Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature …, more nurture, or both? De Walque uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children living … influences. The nonrandom placement of children is controlled by including the educational attainment of the absent biological …
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children -- Uses and policy applications of the human opportunity index -- Inequality of economic opportunity in seven Latin …
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"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 education. It provides provide a rigorous test of the diffusion on of fertility …
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chosen preschools in a pool of 50. Children's school participation was 30 percent higher in the treatment group than in the …
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In the last 15 years, Indonesia has introduced a comprehensive package of education reforms designed to expand access and improve quality. A key component of the reform process has been the devolution of responsibility for basic education services to local governments and schools. The ability of...
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surviving children. Studies have found substantial variability across countries in the negative impacts of orphanhood on child … health and education. One hypothesis for this variability is the resilience of the extended family network in some countries …
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"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...
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tool not only for encouraging families to enroll their children in school, but also keeping them there. Indeed, the results … this, researchers would have to consider what support low-income households might need to monitor and assist their children …
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