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Disabled children are known to fare worse in terms of educational attainment during their school years, with subsequent … consequences for their later transitions and adult outcomes. But despite the acknowledged importance of the early years in children …'s later outcomes, we know relatively little about when disabled children's educational problems emerge or how they develop in …
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groups. Additionally, our analysis allows us to provide an answer to the old question of how health protecting are education … least important for most socioeconomic characteristics. In particular, education and wealth are health protecting but have …
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The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to...
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groups. Additionally, our analysis allows us to provide an answer to the old question of how health protecting are education … least important for most socioeconomic characteristics. In particular, education and wealth are health protecting but have …
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Este documento de política se propone (i) documentar la evidencia existente sobre las desigualdades definidas por la pertenencia a un grupo étnico, la identidad sexual o una situación de discapacidad en Colombia, (ii) analizar las mejores prácticas internacionales y nacionales para reducir...
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En este documento se presenta un conjunto de recomendaciones de política para generar una efectiva igualdad de oportunidades para hombres y mujeres y, de esta forma, mejorar las dinámicas de movilidad social en Colombia. Para esto, inicialmente se explora la evidencia existente sobre la...
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consequences of poor vision among children in China's vast but understudied rural areas. We find that 24% of sample students suffer …Using a survey of 19,977 children in two provinces, this paper explores the prevalence, correlates and potential …
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infants. The sample is partitioned into eight types by mothers’ education and mothers’ smoking status. Stochastic …
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La presente investigacion contribuye con evidencia acerca del efecto del ahorro en cuatro medidas de empoderamiento femenino. Estimamos un modelo de tratamiento endógeno para el acceso a ahorro en el sistema formal en 2004 utilizando como variable de exclusión el número de agencias de...
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The demographic transition is perhaps the most important event to occur in human affairs during the last 250 years, since the time of the enlightenment. It started in the countries of north-western Europe, and it has gone on to affect the rest of the world (Dyson 2009). Signified by the...
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