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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...

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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

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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...

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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

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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 …

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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 …

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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

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A framework for physical growth and child development

Alderman, Harold; Behrman, Jere R.; Glewwe, Paul - 2015

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Parental investments and children's human capital in low-to-middle-income countries

Behrman, Jere R. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2022

This Element reviews what we know about parental investments and children's human capital in low …-to-middle-income countries (LMICs). First, it presents definitions and a simple analytical framework; then discusses determinants of children …; and concludes with a summary suggesting some positive impacts of parental investments on children's human capital in LMICs …

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