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While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
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education in many countries across the world. In this paper, in line with some recent studies, we value school quality using …
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variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. -- Education ; peer effects …
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Inequalities in the opportunity to obtain a good education in low-income countries are widely understood to be related … education in East Africa requires policies that go beyond raising average school quality and should attend to the distribution …
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Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) to fight poverty. PWPs provide temporary cash-for-work opportunities to boost poor households' incomes and to provide better infrastructure to local communities. While PWPs do not target children directly, the...
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While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores … to be overweight, to be obese, and to have high blood pressure and high triglycerides. So, unlike education or earnings … unaffected by conditioning on education and earnings, suggesting that these are not the only important pathways to health …
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as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest … of children from poorer families. -- birth weight ; twins ; education ; IQ ; earnings …
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aptitude. -- education ; income subsidy ; child care …
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market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age … -- Education ; earnings ; IQ ; teenage childbearing …
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Transfers from parents - either in the form of gifts or inheritances - have received much attention as a source of inequality. This paper uses administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows (defined as the capitalized sum of net labor income,...
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