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Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael; Barimah, Alfred; … - 2020

in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys …

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Are there different spillover effects from cash transfers to men and women? : impacts on investments in education in post-war Uganda

Calderone, Margherita - 2017

This paper looks at the spillover effects of grants under the Youth Opportunities Programme (YOP) on human capital investments in conflict-affected Northern Uganda. The YOP grant was primarily aimed at providing start-up money to groups of underemployed young people, and in practice worked...

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Intra-household inequalities in child rights and well-being : a barrier to progress?

Rodriguez Takeuchi, Laura - 2015

obtained from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. It assesses total inequality and its within-household component for two … and break it down into betweenhousehold and within-household components. Overall inequality tends to be higher in … than half of the total inequality. Intra-household inequality is an issue in countries even when, on average, there is …

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Poverty and happiness : an examination of the factors influencing happiness among the extreme poor in rural Ghana

Ayerakwa, Hayford M.; Osei, Robert Darko; Osei-Akoto, Isaac - 2015

Every person desires some level of inner fulfilment at different stages of life and this could come from a combination of several factors including material and resource acquisition and social prestige. The challenge, however, is whether happiness levels across the different social strata are...

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Parental investment, school choice, and the persistent benefits of an early childhood intervention

Wang, Lei; Qian, Yiwei; Warrinnier, Nele; Attanasio, … - In: Journal of development economics 165 (2023), pp. 1-14

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Marriage squeeze, marriage age and the household savings rate in China

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Intra-household bargaining in poor countries

Baland, Jean-Marie; Ziparo, Roberta - 2017

This paper is intended to bridge the theoretical literature describing efficient intra-household behaviour and the … spouses. It examines the key elements of the collective model and discusses its relevance to analysing intra-household …

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Education technologies, wages and technological progress

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Gender bias end economic development in an endogenous growth model

Zhang, Junsen; Zhang, Jie; Li, Tianyou - In: Journal of development economics 59 (1999) 2, pp. 497-525

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Educational mobility in developing countries

Torche, Florencia - 2019

This paper reviews the small but growing literature on intergenerational educational mobility in the developing world. Education is a critical determinant of economic well-being, and it predicts a range of non-pecuniary outcomes such as marriage, fertility, health, crime, and political...

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