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Lowes, Sara; Nunn, Nathan - 2017

Bride price, which is payment from the groom and/or the groom's family to the bride's family at the time of marriage … for girls and women because it may: incentivize early marriage and lead to higher fertility; promote the view that … larger bride price payment is associated with earlier marriage or with higher fertility. We also find that larger bride price …

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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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The power to choose: Gender balance of power and intra-household educational spending in India

Nordman, Christophe; Sharma, Smriti - 2016

We assess the effect of female bargaining power on the share of educational expenditures in the household budget in India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining...

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Class size versus class composition: What matters for learning in East Africa?

Jones, Sam - 2013

Raising schooling quality in low-income countries is a pressing challenge. Substantial research has considered the impact of cutting class sizes on skills acquisition. Considerably less attention has been given to the extent to which peer effects, which refer to class composition, also may...

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Impact of school feeding programmes on educational outcomes: Evidence from dry cereals in schools in Burkina Faso

Nikiema, Pouirkèta Rita - 2017

Food for Education (FFE) programmes have been implemented in developing countries since the 1960s. This paper examines the impact of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) school feeding programme on pupils' attendance and girls' enrolment rate within primary schools in northern Burkina Faso. Using...

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Exploring regional and gender disparities in Beninese primary school attendance: A multilevel approach

McNabb, Kyle - 2017

This study combines household survey data from the Beninese Demographic and Health Survey with school supply statistics in order to investigate regional and gender disparities in primary school attendance rates in Benin. Despite almost unparalleled increases in enrolment since the 1990s, Benin...

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Revisiting the returns to education during rapid structural and rural transformation in Thailand: A regression discontinuity approach

Korwatanasakul, Upalat - 2019

This paper estimates returns to schooling in Thailand, applying a regression discontinuity approach to the change in the compulsory schooling law in 1978. This law helped to enhance human capital investment on the eve of rapid structural transformation. The returns to schooling based on our...

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Effect of girls' secondary school stipend on completed schooling, age at marriage, and age at first birth: Evidence from Bangladesh

Sayeed, Yeasmin - 2016

reduction but very few on causal effects on ages at marriage and first birth. And none of them considers the convergence effect … variation in time and region on schooling, ages at marriage and first birth outcomes with regression discontinuity and … schooling by at least 0.4 years, and delayed age at first marriage and age at first birth by at least 0.4 and 0.3 years …

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Gender, age cohort, and household investment in child schooling: New evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Danquah, Michael; Barimah, Alfred; … - 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa continues to post one of the highest gender gaps in educational outcomes in the world. Gender gaps in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys and girls. In this paper, we interrogate this issue using...

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Transforming rural economies through tertiary education: Evidence from India

Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - 2023

This paper analyses the role of tertiary education on rural development. Using census data on villages in India for 2011, we find that skilled workers have had an important impact on rural prosperity. A 1 percentage point rise in the share of the village population with tertiary education raises...

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