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Substitution effects in parental investments
Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Wang, Hui - 2009
The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling investment than his brother, he will obtain 0.7 yuan more...
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Has gender bias in intra-household allocation of education in rural India fallen over time? : a comparison of 1995 and 2017
Datta, Sandip; Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi - 2022
This paper employs a hurdle model approach to ask whether the extent of gender bias in education expenditure within rural households in India changed over time from 1995 to 2017-18. Our most striking finding is that there has been a change over time in the way that gender bias is practiced...
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Economic opportunities and gender equity : the migration and education decisions of young women from rural China
Xing, Chunbing; Sun, Yan - 2019
We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young women has recently disappeared. We propose that the...
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Maternal education, parental investment and non-cognitive characteristics in rural China
Leight, Jessica; Liu, Elaine M. - 2018
The importance of non-cognitive skills in determining long-term human capital and labor market outcomes is widely acknowledged, but relatively little is known about how educational investments by parents may respond to children’s non-cognitive characteristics. This paper evaluates the parental...
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Earnings effects of training programs
Lechner, Michael (contributor); Melly, Blaise (contributor) - 2007
In an evaluation of a job-training program, the influence of the program on the individual earnings capacity is important, because it reflects the program effect on human capital. Estimating these effects is complicated because earnings are observed for employed individuals only, and employment...
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North-South trade liberalization and returns to skill in the south : the case of Mexico
Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); Otero, Rafael (contributor) - 2008
This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model …, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of low-skill workers, that is, lowered returns to skill in Mexico. Analysis …
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Allocation of labour in urban West Africa : implication for development policies
Dimova, Ralitza (contributor);  … - 2008
With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrolment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors. We find that people...
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Family networks and school enrolment : evidence from a randomized social experiment
Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Rangel, Marcos A.; … - 2009
extended family. Using data from the PROGRESA program in Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames …
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Extended family networks in rural Mexico : a descriptive analysis
Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Rangel, Marcos A.; … - 2009
Progresa social assistance program in rural Mexico. We exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames of household …
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Drought of opportunities : contemporaneous and long-term impacts of rainfall shocks on human capital
Shah, Manisha; Steinberg, Bryce Millett - 2015
Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production, particularly in the developing world. We introduce a simple model of human capital production in which investments and time allocation differ by age. Using data on test scores and schooling from rural India, we show that...
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