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Surviving the genocide : the impact of the Rwandan genocide on child mortality

Ciani, Federico; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013

is measured exploiting the differential effects of timing of birth and genocide intensity at the household and geographic …

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Business in genocide : understanding and avoiding complicity

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2016

engaged in genocide to a more analytical exploration of why businesses have made the choices they did in the process of their … engagement with genocide. This is also necessary to advance the debate on how to hold businesses accountable for gross human …

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The effects of conflict on fertility : evidence from the genocide in Rwanda

Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; … - 2019

This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the … hazard of having a child in the early post-genocide period and on the total number of post-genocide births up to 15 years …-level sex ratio. Results indicate that the genocide had heterogeneous effects on fertility, depending on the type of violence …

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The impact of adolescent motherhood on education in Chile

Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana I. - 2014

We analyze the effect of having a child in adolescence on high school completion, educational attainment, and college enrollment in a developing country setting using nine repeated rounds of Chilean household surveys that span the 1990-2009 period. We control for selection bias and household...

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What drives demand for private tutoring in the Middle East and North Africa region? : evidence from a youth survey

Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir; Sleiman, Anastasia - 2022

, Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. The paper uses data extracted from the SAHWA Youth Survey (2016) and runs a …

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Migrant opportunity and the educational attainment of youth in rural China

De Brauw, Alan (contributor); Giles, John (contributor) - 2006

In this paper, we investigate how reductions of barriers to migration affect the decision of middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in the timing of national identity card distribution,...

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Peer effects, unobserved factors and risk behaviours : an analysis of alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents

Duarte, Rosa (contributor); … - 2007

"The objective of this paper is to examine the factors which affect alcohol abuse and truancy among adolescents. We propose a new theoretical specification in which alcohol abuse and truancy appear as derived demands, given that they condition peer group and family acceptance, and we introduce...

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Adolescent motherhood and secondary schooling in Chile

Kruger, Diana I.; Berthelon, Matias; Navia, Rodrigo - 2009

We analyze the determinants of adolescent motherhood and its subsequent effect on high school attendance and completion in Chile. Using eight rounds of household surveys, we find that adolescents who were born to teen mothers, those that live in poor households and in single-mother families, are...

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Delaying the bell : the effects of longer school days on adolescent motherhood in Chile

Kruger, Diana I.; Berthelon, Matias E. - 2009

We analyze the effect of a Chilean school reform that lengthened the school day from half to full-day shifts on the likelihood that adolescent girls become mothers. By increasing the number of hours spent in school, the reform curtails opportunities to engage in risky sexual behaviors. Using...

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Longer-term impacts of mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn : evidence from a randomized trial

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010

employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth … matters. While encouraging results are found for the younger youth; detrimental long-lived outcomes for males suggest that …

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