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Big sisters
Jakiela, Pamela; Ozier, Owen; Fernald, Lia C. H.; … - 2020
This paper models household investments in young children when parents and older siblings share caregiving … not related to household structure, subsequent birth spacing, or other observable characteristics, so the presence of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390590
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Pension coverage for parents and educational investment in children : evidence from urban China
Mu, Ren; Du, Yang - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379468
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Making education in China equitable and efficient
Hossain, Shaikh I. - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000971725
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The targeting benefit of conditional cash transfers
Bergstrom, Katy; Dodds, William - 2020
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are a popular type of social welfare program that make payments to households conditional on human capital investments in children. Compared to unconditional cash transfers (UCTs), CCTs may exclude some low-income households as access is tied to normal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227985
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Productivity of public spending, sectoral allocation choices, and economic growth
Baffes, John; Shah, Anwar - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000892515
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Earnings and education in Latin America : assessing priorities for schooling investments
Psacharopoulos, George; Ng, Ying-chu - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000138765
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Cash transfers, behavioral changes and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment
Macours, Karen (contributor);  … - 2008
"A variety of theories of skill formation suggest that investments in schooling and other dimensions of human capital will have lower returns if children do not have adequate levels of cognitive and social skills at an early age. This paper analyzes the impact of a randomized cash transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771202
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Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador
Schady, Norbert Rüdiger; Araujo, María Caridad - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003351566
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Labor supply, school attendance, and remittances from international migration : the case of El Salvador
Acosta, Pablo - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003319311
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Natural disasters, self-insurance and human capital investment : evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Yohannes, Yisehac; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - 2009
biological human capital. Asset holdings prior to the disasters, especially the household's stock of intellectual human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003833274