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Global extreme poverty rates for children, adults and the elderly
Batana, Yélé; Bussolo, Maurizio; Cockburn, John - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 3, pp. 405-407
Chen and Ravallion’s estimates of global extreme poverty rates are well known. This note, by considering how these rates vary by age group, reaches two important and policy relevant conclusions and emphasizes a central avenue for future research. The first is that child extreme poverty rates...
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Child gender and parental borrowing: Evidence from India
Agier, Isabelle; Guérin, Isabelle; Szafarz, Ariane - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 3, pp. 363-365
for their daughters by taking on debt. But wealth asymmetry between mothers and fathers perpetuates gender inequality …
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Reversal of gender gaps in child development: Evidence from young children in India
Lopez Boo, Florencia; Canon, Maria Eugenia - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 1, pp. 55-59
steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses …
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