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The Economics of Consanguineous Marriages

Do, Quy-Toan - 2016

The institution of consanguineous marriage - a marriage contracted between close biological relatives - has been a … a bride and a groom. When marriage contracts are incomplete, dowries transfer control rights to the party with the … highest incentives to invest in a marriage. When these transactions are costly however, consanguinity can be a more …

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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?

Doepke, Matthias - 2017

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? The authors develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind...

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Intimate Partner Violence : The Influence of Job Opportunities for Men and Women

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2020

This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data from thirty-one developing countries, through 2005 to 2016. It finds that a 1 percent increase in the male unemployment rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of...

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Impact of Early Life Exposure to Environments with Unimproved Sanitation on Education Outcomes : Evidence from Bangladesh

Joseph, George - 2019

Despite Bangladesh's notable progress toward the eradication of open defecation, the country still faces severe deficits in the availability of improved sanitation. This paper analyzes the impact of exposure to unimproved sanitation early in childhood on primary school enrollment status, using...

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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 - 2019

This paper evaluates and compares two randomized interventions in Tonga, one targeting the home environment of children up to age 5 and one targeting the school environment for first and second grade students. The first intervention supports communities to set up and run playgroups that aim to...

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The Lost Human Capital : Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement in Africa

Bold, Tessa - 2019

In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper proposes a methodology to assess the effect...

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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America : Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010

Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017

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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The Measurement of Educational Inequality : Achievement and Opportunity

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017

This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...

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Heterogenous Peer Effects, Segregation and Academic Attainment

Lugo, Maria Ana - 2017

Socioeconomic segregation is often decried for denying poorer children the benefits of positive' peer effects'. Yet standard, linear-in-means models of peer effects (a) implicitly assume that segregation is zero sum, with gains and losses to rich and poor perfectly offsetting, and (b) rule out...

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Education Outcomes, School Governance and Parents'Demand for Accountability : Evidence from Albania

Serra, Danila - 2017

The extent to which teachers and school directors are held to account may play a central role in determining education outcomes, particularly in developing and transition countries where institutional deficiencies can distort incentives. This paper investigates the relationship between an...

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