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Intergenerational social mobility based on the investments in human capital : evidence of the long-term results of PROSPERA in health
Gutiérrez, Juan Pablo; Shamah Levy, Teresa; Bertozzi, … - 2019
health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … helping children and youth build human capital through better health and education, which has led to positive returns in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114345
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Intervening at home and then at school : a randomized evaluation of two approaches to improve early educational outcomes in Tonga
Macdonald, Kevin; Brinkman, Sally; Jarvie, Wendy; … - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002660
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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020
intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241186
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Human capital and macro-economic development : a review of the evidence
Rossi, Federico - 2018
This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of human capital for macro-economic development. Through the lens of a simple aggregate production function, human capital might increase output per capita by directly entering in the production process, incentivising the accumulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002419
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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings
Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020
Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388740
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Mama knows (and does) best : maternal schooling opportunities and child development in Indonesia
Hasan, Amer; Nakajima, Nozomi; Rangel, Marcos A. - 2020
-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the … children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional … effects on children. The effects are particularly salient at the bottom of the distributions of outcomes. Drawing on insights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297484
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Long-term study of PROSPERA on intergenerational occupational mobility
Yaschine, Iliana; Vargas Chanes, Delfino; Huffman, Curtis; … - 2019
Two decades after the inception of Mexico's conditional cash transfer program, PROSPERA, this study analyzes the intergenerational occupational mobility and occupational attainment of a group of rural beneficiary youths between ages 18 and 35 years, segmented into subgroups by sex, ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114341
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Is it what you inherited or what you learnt? : intergenerational linkage and interpersonal inequality in Senegal
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009384838
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Intergenerational education mobility in Africa : has progress been inclusive?
Azomahou, Théophile; Yitbarek, Eleni A. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568833
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Inheritance law reform, empowerment, and human capital accumulation : second-generation effects from India
Deininger, Klaus W.; Fang, Xia; Jin, Songqing; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440601