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Entitled to property: inheritance laws, female bargaining power, and child health in India
Hossain, Md Shahadath; Nikolov, Plamen - 2021
to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …
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Entitled to property : how breaking the gender barrier improves child health in India
Hossain, Shahadat Md.; Nikolov, Plamen - 2023
Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings … larger share of family resources. Policies empowering women can yield additional positive externalities for children's human …
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Dealing with imperfect randomization : inference for the Highscope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Shaikh, Azeem M. - 2023
This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...
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Peaceful coexistence? : the role of religious schools and NGOs in the growth of female secondary schooling in Bangladesh
Asadullah, Niaz; Chaudhury, Nazmul - 2012
effect is much bigger when compared to that on secondary schools. -- externalities ; NGO schools ; madrasas ; female …
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The labeling effect of a child benefits system : evidence from Russia 1994-2015
Grogan, Louise Anne - 2018
Impacts of child benefits and earned incomes on child wellbeing are identified for Russia. To predict earnings, a counter-factual commodity price model is constructed using information on local industrial composition and the evolution of world prices during 1994-2015 for six key commodity...
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The effect of early childhood development program attendance on future school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India
Hazarika, Gautam; Viren, Vejoya - 2010
, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …' grade progression. -- early childhood development ; less developed country ; India ; schooling …
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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
Aygün, Aysun Hızıroglu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
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A closer look: proximity boosts homeless student performance in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters near their schools have 8 percent (2.4 days) better attendance, are a third (18 percentage points) less likely to change schools, and exhibit higher rates of proficiency and...
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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019
This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …
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The long-term cognitive and schooling effects of childhood vaccinations in China
Oskorouchi, Hamid R.; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Bloom, David E. - 2020
By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China …-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are …
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