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What drives parental investments in early childhood? : experimental evidence from a video intervention in Rwanda

Justino, Patricia; Leone, Marinella; Rolla, Pierfrancesco; … - 2023

This paper investigates the causal impact of a randomized video intervention designed to study the determinants of parental time investments in early childhood among low-income parents. We designed and screened a video that provided information and conveyed persuasive messages about the...

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Children and the youth in rural Viet Nam

Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol - 2015

Structural transformation in rural Viet Nam has led to rising incomes and a diversification of livelihoods away from agriculture. Using panel data on children in 2,181 rural households surveyed over the 2008-14 period, we examine how the welfare of children has been impacted by structural...

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Less restrictive birth control, less education? : evidence from ethnic minorities in China

Liu, Yishen; Pan, Yao - 2016

affect education. The documented negative impact on education of urban ethnic minorities, combined with the improved quality …

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Affirmative action and long-run changes in group inequality in India

Kumar, Hemanshu; Somanathan, Rohini - 2016

points to divergence: communities with more education in 1961 also had higher educational attainment in 2001. Also, while …

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Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision in Zambia : further evidence of a subnational 'diversity dividend'

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Leiderer, Stefan; … - 2014

The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical evidence in particular is inconclusive, and...

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Group-based inequalities : the case of Viet Nam

Hoai, Dang Thi Thu - 2017

/urban groups. While there has been an improvement in horizontal inequality in education, this paper shows little change in other …

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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...

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Is the education of local children influenced by living nearby a refugee camp? : evidence from host communities in Rwanda

Bilgili, Özge; Fransen, Sonja; Loschmann, Craig; … - 2018

camp does not have a negative influence on the education of local children. On the contrary, children residing closer to … views regarding the effects of refugees on local education. These results contribute to the body of literature on the …

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The effect of China's One Child Policy on sex selection, family size, and the school enrolment of daughters

Qian, Nancy - 2017

I first document that the introduction of the One Child Policy dramatically increased sex selection in certain regions, and that the Chinese government responded to this by allowing parents who had a daughter as their first child to try for a second child. Next, I show that the increase in...

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The education backlash : how assimilative primary school education affects insurgency in areas of ethnic conflict

Bozçağa, Tuğba; Cansunar, Asli - 2023

Education is a public service, assumed to be highly valued by citizens, allowing politicians to use it to reward their … co-ethnics. However, nation-states have also used education to create loyal citizens, leaving politicians in times of … minority areas induce violence. To examine this question, we leverage the spatial and temporal variations in education …

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