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, good long-term nutritional status) helps insure resilience to disasters by protecting schooling investments and outcomes … frequent, repeated drought exposure reduces schooling investments in some cases, with larger negative impacts seen among … stock in the household) also help maintain schooling investments to at least the same degree as the stock of human capital …
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Regression discontinuity design (RDD) is a useful tool for evaluating programs when a single variable is used to determine program eligibility. RDD has also been used to evaluate programs when eligibility is based on multiple variables that have been aggregated into a single index using...
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-scores, as well as schooling performance as measured by age at start of schooling and number of grades repeated. The interactions …
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This paper identifies the cumulative impact of early schooling investments on later schooling outcomes in the context … schooling. Using a child-level longitudinal dataset from rural Ethiopia, we estimate a dynamic conditional schooling demand … function where the coefficient estimate on the lagged dependent variable captures the impact of all previous periods’ schooling …
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"This paper investigates children's time allocation to schooling, home production, and market production using a unique … shocks. Assets such as livestock have mixed effects on child labor and schooling, depending on the shock and asset type …
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is to determine the effect that schooling has on HIV/AIDS excess mortality, using panel data from South Africa. This … paper tests the hypothesis that schooling affects when and who one marries and thus impacts the risk of mortality from HIV … for women, who need to increase their time spent in the household. Thus, schooling may increase mortality risks due to the …
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nutrition. Conceptually, there are three main channels for value chains to improve nutrition: (1) through increased consumption … side pathway) or (3) through increased nutrition value-addition in the chain transactions. These three pathways are …
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This paper therefore analyzes agriculture and nutrition linkages in Bangladesh, a country that achieved rapid growth in …
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potential, and agricultural growth has not translated to significant improvements in nutrition outcomes at large. In this study …, we explore the links between agriculture and nutrition in Tanzania and review the evidence on how these links can be … strengthened for improved nutrition. We further quantitatively evaluate the potential nutrition outcome of agricultural growth …
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nutrition security in Africa. CAADP seeks to promote policies and partnerships and raise investments in Africa's agricultural …
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