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Remote-learning, time-use, and mental health of ecuadorian high-school students during the COVID-19 quarantine
Asanov, Igor A.; Flores, Francisco; McKenzie, David J.; … - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed schools around the world, forcing school systems and students to quickly attempt … remote learning. A rapid response phone survey of over 1,500 high school students aged 14 to 18 in Ecuador was conducted to … gender and wealth differences emerge in time spent working and on household tasks. Closure of schools and social isolation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241193
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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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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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Children's work and schooling: does gender matter? : evidence from the LSMS panel data
Ilahi, Nadeem - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001640948
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The week
Eden, Maya - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454357
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Modeling and predicting the spread of Covid-19 : comparative results for the United States, the Philippines, and South Africa
Dasgupta, Susmita; Wheeler, David - 2020
A model of Covid-19 transmission among locations within a country has been developed that is (1) implementable anywhere spatially-disaggregated Covid-19 infection data are available; (2) scalable for locations of different sizes, from individual regions to countries of continental scale; (3)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388742
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Cross-region transfers in a monetary union : evidence from the US and some implications
Pennings, Steven - 2020
US federal transfers to individuals are large, countercyclical, vary geographically, and are often credited for helping stabilize regional economies. This paper estimates the short-run effects of these transfers using plausibly exogenous regional variation in temporary stimulus packages and...
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Implications of cheap oil for emerging markets
Kabundi, Alain; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2020
The COVID-19-triggered collapse in oil prices in March and April 2020 was the seventh, and by far the most severe, in a series of such collapses since 1970. This paper, first, compares this most recent collapse and its drivers with previous ones in an event study. It finds that it was associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388647
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Adding fuel to the fire : cheap oil during the COVID-19 pandemic
Wheeler, Collette Mari; Baffes, John; Kabundi, Alain; … - 2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 and the wide-ranging measures needed to slow its advance triggered an unprecedented collapse in oil demand, a surge in oil inventories, and a record one-month decline in oil prices in March 2020. This paper examines the likely implications of the 2020 oil price plunge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257329
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Banking sector performance during the COVID-19 crisis
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Pedraza, Alvaro; Ruiz-Ortega, Claudia - 2020
This paper analyzes bank stock prices around the world to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the banking sector. Using a global database of policy responses during the crisis, the paper also examines the role of financial sector policy announcements on the performance of bank stocks....
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