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Abstract The Asian economic crisis which began with the floating of the bhat by Thailand on July 1 1997 is still having … spread from Thailand to other Asian countries, subsequently to Russia and more recently to Brazil. Fortunately, timely and …
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on whether or not their mothers were literate: there was no gender discrimination between children of literate mothers … disadvantage than that engendered solely by gender. These were the consequences which stemmed from children being born to …This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 …
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Within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the gender equality in education is considered one of … narrowing down the gender gap in education for the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. More specifically, and among many … other factors, the study focuses on the response of gender gap in education to economic growth, information communication …
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Objective Better measurement of the health and cognitive benefits of breastfeeding by using sibling comparisons to reduce sample selection bias. Data We use data on the breastfeeding history, physical and emotional health, academic performance, cognitive ability, and demographic characteristics...
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in that country. In particular, the study examines how public kindergartens’ effect on children’s early literacy …, largely disregarding that there is a fundamental problem of unequal opportunities among children in terms of access to high …
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policy in that country. In particular, the study examines how public kindergartens’ effect on children’s early literacy … children in terms of access to high-quality early childhood education. Specific policy recommendations that could improve the …
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. They note that under current policy three- and four-year-old children from economically and educationally disadvantaged … families have higher preschool attendance rates than other children. But current programs fail to enroll even half of poor … three-and four-year olds. Hispanics and children of mothers who drop out of school also participate at relatively low rates …
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Conventionally, consumer price indices are constructed on the assumption that we are observing a stable system of consumer demand, and that all price movements are, therefore, the result of supply-side changes. This often leads to an emphasis on consumer price substitution and to a...
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Homotheticity induces a dramatic statistical bias in the estimates of the intratemporal and intertemporal substitutions. I find potent support in favor of nonhomotheticity in aggregate consumption data, with nondurable goods being necessities and durable goods luxuries. I obtain the...
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This paper discusses first results of a comparative study of different environmental policy instruments. In a model with pollution as a side effect of consumption different environmental policies are studied. In simulations we observe the dynamic behavior of models with utility functions of the...
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