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Informal economy and the World Bank

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COVID-19 mortality in rich and poor countries : a tale of two pandemics?

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the excessive skew towards rich countries is inconsistent with demography. Simulations based on reasonable ranges for …

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Identifying catch-up trajectories in child growth : new methods with evidence from young lives

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Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper distinguishes between catch-up in the mean of a group toward that of a healthy reference population versus catch-up within the group, associated with a narrowing of the outcome...

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Global inequality in a more educated world

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Do demographics matter for African child poverty?

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Free primary education, fertility, and women’s access to the labor market : evidence from Ethiopia

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This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and … fertility finds that the decline in fertility is associated with an increase in labor market opportunity and a reduction in …

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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality

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mechanisms finds a narrowing of gender gaps in parental investments in children, moderation of son-biased fertility stopping, and … shrinking of the gap between actual and desired fertility. Heterogeneity in fertility responses suggests a shift in the …

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Fertility and parental labor-force participation : new evidence from a developing country in the Balkans

Trako, Iva - 2019

This paper examines the effect of fertility on parental labor force participation in a developing country in the … address the potential endogeneity in the fertility decision, the analysis exploits the Albanian parental preference for having …-section of parents with at least two children, the analysis finds a positive and statistically significant effect of fertility on …

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Education, externalities, fertility, and economic growth

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