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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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Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
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children. For rural ethnic minorities, however, the level of enforcement of the birth control policy does not significantly …
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targeting parents of children aged six to 24 months in a poor, rural district of Rwanda. The programme engaged parents through … baseline, children's communication, problem-solving, and personal social skills improved in treated groups. After almost three … with their children. …
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proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I …
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, incorporating test score data for over 250,000 children, to compare the likely efficacy of these two types of interventions …
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This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both their primary and lower secondary school exam records,...
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children's risk of malaria infection. For identification, we rely on exogenous variation in educational attainment generated by … prophylaxis during pregnancy by between 3.7 and 14.5 percentage points, and their children's probability of sleeping under an … insecticide-treated bed net (ITN) by between 1.8 and 3.0 percentage points. Results for both women's use of ITN and children …
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needed to provide core inputs for children's health and education. However, maternal employment comes at the cost of time … spent with children, which is also a critical input into children's development. The net impact is therefore theoretically … children's health and education in Indonesia. We mobilize several data sources to construct a dataset of more than 32 …
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We investigate whether there are racial and ethnic disparities in children's education in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and … Viet Nam. We find that in all the four countries, and especially in Viet Nam, children from small ethnic groups have lower … education attainment and cognitive ability. The gap in educational attainment and cognitive ability among ethnic children is …
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