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educational outcomes of beneficiary children. The findings associate Juntos participation with higher overall enrolment rates and … grades of schooling for children aged 12 to 18 years. This effect translates into a higher probability of finishing primary … through grades rather than final years of schooling. We find no impact on enrolment or school progression for younger children …
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Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to diff erent quality … children are signi ficantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families …-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
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Conditional cash transfer programmes have been increasingly adopted by several low and middle-income countries. Despite this overall acceptance, conditionalities remain under scrutiny regarding their possible independent effects on educational and health indicators. This paper is an ecological...
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As part of Germany’s fiscal response to the Covid-19 pandemic, parents received three payments totalling e450 per child. Randomization in the payment dates and daily scanner data allow us to identify the effects of these transfers on household spending. We find a significant but small spending...
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-term outcomes of refugees who migrate as children and young adults. German Democratic Republic (GDR) refugees who escaped to West … similar effects of aid-eligibility for refugees who migrated as children (aged 1-14). The overall results suggest that factors …
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Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms...
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Using longitudinal data for Argentina, we estimate the labor supply reaction of spouses and children to their husband … downgraded employment, and of children to drop-out from education. While effects are stronger among vulnerable households …
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