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. If parents have no claim on their children’s income, then the private benefit from producing a child may be smaller … than the social benefit. We present an overlapping-generations (OLG) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model … ownership by introducing a minimum constraint on transfers from parents to children. …
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The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to measure the change in these basic learning and...
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This paper addresses gender equity in parents‘ educational investments in children in a context of rising school … regarding household influences on education. First, time spent in school is insensitive to factors such as poverty and gender …
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locations over a one-dimensional interval. Parents decide whether or not to educate their children. The model therefore combines …
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Review of Erika Langmuir Imagining Childhood. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-10131-7.
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, parents and children, while women helped their children. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/311.pdf]. …
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An evaluation of a program that aims to improve children’s reading skills by providing classes with age‐appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read‐athon. [Working paper No. 305]. URL: [http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/305.pdf].
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, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2 extra months of schooling. The Vietnamese horoscope being gender …
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rural poor into school. It documents how the objects of policy – rural poor children and parents - are ‘seen’ by the …
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A bill to provide for free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to fourteen years.
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