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inequality concerns over children’s final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the … developing world. I study the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … develop new theory-driven survey measures based on hypothetical scenarios that allow me to separately identify parents …
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trial led to a reduction in school dropout and early marriage. We see large improvements in girls’ mental health but only in … the arm which engages with the wider community. Improvements in mental health can be explained by community engagement …
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This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters …’ schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete choice model in which parents face uncertainty about the quality of their … daughter’s future marriage offers. Parents’ choices are thus partially driven by their beliefs about the likelihood of …
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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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This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment in primary schools among children …
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Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component … effectiveness at scale. This paper describes how the INHP learnt and evolved in its strategies in engaging existing public health …
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This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …
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The paper is a research which studies the government policies and agendas that affect the poor in India. For the research 8 to 10 families, who had been intervened several years ago were re-interviewed to identify and explore the processes that reinforced or helped them escape the situation of...
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