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Early childhood development : wealth, the nurturing environment and inequality first results from the PRIDI database

Verdisco, Aimée E.; Cueto, Santiago; Thompson, Jennelle - 2016

This paper presents findings from the Regional Project on Child Development Indicators, PRIDI for its acronym in Spanish. PRIDI created a new tool, the Engle Scale, for evaluating development in children aged 24 to 59 months in four domains: cognition, language and communication, socio-emotional...

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Training and individual performance in Europe : evidence from microeconometric studies

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000

Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms...

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How children's schooling and work are affected when their father leaves permanently : evidence from Colombia

Fitzsimons, Emla; Mesnard, Alice - 2012

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school enrolment by around 4 percentage points, and increases...

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Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Papageorge, Nicholas W. - 2016

Recent advances in behavioral genetics allow us to overcome past limitations on the study of genes and human capital accumulation. We build on this progress to explore the relationship between observed genetic variants, educational attainment, and labor market outcomes in the Health and...

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Inequality in household adaptation to schooling shocks : Covid-induced online learning engagement in real time

Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; Goodman, Joshua S.; Mulhern, Christine - 2020

We use high frequency internet search data to study in real time how US households sought out online learning resources as schools closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. By April 2020, nationwide search intensity for both school- and parent-centered online learning resources had roughly doubled...

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Socioeconomic Determinants of School Progression in Pakistan

Siddiqui, Anjum; Iram, Uzma - 2008

Low enrollment and high drop out rates can best be understood by examining a range of socioeconomic factors that affect school progression from primary through secondary to post secondary schools in Pakistan. The study employs a sequential approach which captures the different opportunity costs...

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Tiebout Sorting and Neighborhood Stratification

Bayer, Patrick J. - 2011

Tiebout's classic 1956 paper has strong implications regarding stratification across and within jurisdictions, predicting (in the simplest instance) a hierarchy of internally homogeneous communities, ordered by household income. In practice, urban areas tend to exhibit varying degrees of...

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The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program on Schooling and Child Labor

Hoddinott, John - 2012

We investigate the impact of participation in the Public Works component of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program, the largest social protection program in Sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa, on schooling and child labor. Income from Public Works should reduce demand for child labor...

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Impact of early life shocks on human capital formation : El Niño floods in Ecuador

Rosales, María Fernanda - 2014

variation in children's exposure to a negative shock at different periods early in life. It is shown that children exposed to … explored by studying how exposure to the El Niño shock affected key inputs to the production of children's human capital: birth … 1997-98 suffered a decline in income, total consumption, and food consumption in the aftermath of the shock. Moreover …

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Going back to school takes time : evidence from a negative trade shock

Garon, Jean-Denis; Haeck, Catherine; Bourassa-Viau, Simon - 2020

We estimate the impact of a negative trade shock on labour market outcomes and educational choices of workers. We …

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