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children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional … who were exposed to more schooling opportunities during childhood demonstrate less hostility toward their children when …-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the …
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schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life expectancy at birth. Lifetime earnings increase by 1.7 percent per year of added … average years of schooling worldwide for birth cohorts between 1922 and 1987 and 38 percent of the increase in average gross …
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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...
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children. Of the 200 million children who do not reach their developmental potential worldwide, 66 percent live in South Asia …. This paper explores gaps in knowledge among educators in Eastern Nepal about the importance of early childhood. The results … that contribute to the growth and development of children in early childhood. There are also large gaps in teachers …
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This article investigates the effect increasing secondary education opportunities has on teenage fertility in Brazil. Using a novel dataset to exploit variation from a 57 increase in secondary schools across 4,884 Brazilian municipalities between 1997 and 2009, the analysis shows an important...
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1,000 children increases the work participation of mothers of preschool age eligible children by 11-16 percent from the …-in-difference-in-differences framework. With a longitudinal survey that tracks individuals for an average of 22 years, a panel of mothers was constructed to … of holding a second job. The availability of preschools induces mothers to informal sector occupations that do not …
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