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"A family preference for sons over daughters may manifest itself in different ways, including higher mortality, worse … developing world, namely the likelihood of continued childbearing given the gender composition of existing children in the family … that latent son preference in childbearing is more likely to manifest itself when fertility levels are low. As a result of …
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Good nutrition is a cornerstone of healthy child development, starting with conception through especially the first two years of life, when malnutrition can have an irreversible impact on growth and brain development. Without the right nutrition, children will face problems from the start in...
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"This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a reference point for new sample data from Venezuela....
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"This paper estimates the relationship between family background, school characteristics, and student achievement in … is strongly related to students' family background, weakly to some institutional school features, and hardly to schools …' resource endowments. In an international perspective, estimated family background effects are relatively large in Argentina …
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this evaluation shows, the chance for cognitive improvement for the youngest family members too …
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of the present report are: a) to analyze the main characteristics of family agriculture as well as its development … measures aimed at reducing vulnerabilities and increasing development opportunities for family producers; and d) contribute to … presenting a set of policy recommendations and measures to support an economic and environmentally sustainable family agriculture …
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