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permanent endowments as well as on education. We find evidence of statistically significant complementarity, i.e. the higher …
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have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However … particular, boys), while the instrument is insufficiently powerful to reliably estimate effects for younger children. This …
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This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …
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the child's higher education operates through deprivation of economic resources. Using one million siblings, we find that …
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Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …
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women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data with two rounds of post-intervention data …
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Skill development is increasingly viewed as a way to escape the low education – high unemployment trap in developing … countries. Consequently, policy makers in these countries are extensively investing in skill development programs. However … field experiment in India that subsidizes the cost of learning spoken English, we find that full subsidy (compared to …
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vocational trainees on their employment outcomes. The setting of the study is the vocational training program DDU-GKY in India …
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children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in … India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls' outcomes. Using repeated … parities. An examination of the various mechanisms linking between prenatal sex selection and children outcomes suggests that …
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, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …
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