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Gender gaps in cognitive and noncognitive skills: roles of SES and gender attitudes
Hervé, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere R.; Nandi, … - 2021
Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433603
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Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills: Roles of SES and Gender Attitudes
Hervé, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere R.; Nandi, … - 2021
Gender gaps in skills exist around the world but differ remarkably among the high and low-and-middle income countries. This paper uses a unique data set with more than 20,000 adolescents in rural India to examine whether socioeconomic status and gender attitudes predict gender gaps in cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498033
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Long-term effects of rainfall shocks on foundational cognitive skills : evidence from Peru
Pazos, Nicolas; Favara, Marta; Sanchez, Alan; Scott, Douglas - 2023
Global warming is changing precipitation patterns, harming communities strongly tied to agricultural production, particularly in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs). Whilst the long-term effects of being exposed to rainfall shocks early in life on school achievement tests are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545819
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Partner + children
Kohler, Hans-Peter; Behrman, Jere R.; Skytthe, Axel - In: Population and development review 31 (2005) 3, pp. 407-445
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Maternal undernutrition in adolescence and child human capital formation over the lif er the life-course : evidence from an international cohort study
Georgiadis, Andreas; Benny, Liza; Dornan, Paul; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593289
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Long-run economic losses from COVID-related preprimary program closures in Latin America and the Caribbean
López Bóo, Florencia; Behrman, Jere R.; Vazquez, Claudia - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 22 (2023) 1, pp. 19-30
Hundreds of millions of children are losing learning opportunities, resulting in potentially large losses in their …-when current preschool-age children become adults-due to COVID-19 related preprimary-program closures in Latin America and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332073
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Decomposing fertility differences across world regions and over time : is improved health more important than women's schooling?
Behrman, Jere R.; Duryea, Suzanne; Székely, Miguel - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001427952
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Decomposing fertility differences across world regions and over time : is improved health more important than women's schooling? ; background paper for the Economic and Social Prog...
Behrman, Jere R.; Duryea, Suzanne; Székely, Miguel - 1999
economic outcomes. These shifts are triggered by changes in fertility and mortality that take place some years before becoming … countries in the world are still experiencing, or probably about to experience, fertility declines. This paper first … characterizes differences in fertility and mortality and in related dependency ratios across regions and over time. The paper then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542224
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Parental wealth and adult children's welfare in marriage
Behrman, Jere R.; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - In: The review of economics and statistics 88 (2006) 3, pp. 496-509
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003384408
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A framework for physical growth and child development
Alderman, Harold; Behrman, Jere R.; Glewwe, Paul - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333618