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that either directly support the education of children with disabled parents and/or have policies that support disabled …This paper examines the effect of parental disability on school enrollment and educational performance for children in … the 2006 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey. Results from instrumental-variables regressions indicate that children …
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finds that children born into consanguineous marriages have lower test scores, lower height-for-age, and a higher likelihood … maternal grandparent mortality as instruments for consanguineous marriage of parents …
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stimulation to boost child development, particularly for children ages 0-3 years. The paper reviews the rationale for linking both …
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guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading. Three years after the end … of the intervention, the receptive vocabulary and the socio-emotional development of children of families participating … in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0.43 and 0.54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of …
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Household expenditures for children-related goods may change when one of the parent migrates and do so differently … migration is accounted for using a set of instrumental variables derived from the model. Results show that when children are … of budget devoted to children remains unaffected because mothers compensate by giving up their own private consumption …
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When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial … social security on education investments in children. In a difference-in-differences framework, a significant increase in the …
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Substantial work has demonstrated that early nutrition and home environments, including the degree to which children … receive cognitive stimulation and emotional support from parents, play a profound role in influencing early childhood … children in the preschool years living in low-income countries. Using panel data on parenting, nutrition status, and early …
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The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses - the average number of years of schooling in a population - is based only on quantity. But ignoring schooling quality turns out to be a major omission. As recent research shows, students in different countries...
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It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the educational upgrading of its labor force. Between 1990 and 2010, the proportion of the labor force in the region with at least secondary education increased from 40 to 60 percent....
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Using a rich data set of almost the entire population of Ukrainian secondary schools, the authors estimate the effect of school size and class size on the performance of secondary schools on Ukraine's External Independent Test. They find that larger schools tend to have somewhat better...
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