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The Impact of Nutrition during Early Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults
Maluccio, John A.; Hoddinott, John; Behrman, Jere R.; … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2003
Early childhood nutrition is thought to have important effects on education, broadly defined to include various forms … of learning. We advance beyond previous literature on the effect of early childhood nutrition on education in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126682
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What Determines Adult Cognitive Skills? Impacts of Pre-Schooling, Schooling and Post-Schooling Experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2006
Most investigations of the importance of and the determinants of adult cognitive skills assume that (a) they are produced primarily by schooling and (b) schooling is statistically predetermined. But these assumptions may lead to misleading inferences about impacts of schooling and of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102107
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What determines adult cognitive skills? : influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-32
Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, we find that: (1) School attainment has a significant and substantial effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254285
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Do More-Schooled Women have Fewer Children and Delay Childbearing? Evidence from a Sample of U.S. Twins
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R. - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2011
Using data on MZ (monozygotic, identical) female twins from the Minnesota Twin Registry, we estimate the causal effect of schooling on completed fertility, probability of being childless and age at first birth, using the within-MZ twins methodology. We find strong cross-sectional associations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366837
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Intergenerational mobility in Latin America
Behrman, Jere R.; Uribe, Alejandro Gaviria; Székely, Miguel - FEDESARROLLO - 2001
Abstract: High inequality has long been regarded as one of the main problems facing Latin American countries. To understand better the determinants of inequality and to help guide thinking about policy options, it would be useful to know whether inequality mainly reflects low intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961640
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Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa
Anand, Paul; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh; Jones, Sam - 2019
Inequalities in the opportunity to obtain a good education in low-income countries are widely understood to be related … education in East Africa requires policies that go beyond raising average school quality and should attend to the distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984630
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Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence: Evidence from a Large Public Works Programme
Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - 2022
Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) to fight poverty. PWPs provide temporary cash-for-work opportunities to boost poor households' incomes and to provide better infrastructure to local communities. While PWPs do not target children directly, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426400
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Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America
Behrman, Jere R.; Uribe, Alejandro Gaviria; Székely, Miguel - FEDESARROLLO - 2001
Abstract: High inequality has long been regarded as one of the main problems facing Latin American countries. To understand better the determinants of inequality and to help guide thinking about policy options, it would be useful to know whether inequality mainly reflects low intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005597771
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What determines adult cognitive skills? Influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American Economic Review 23 (2014) 1, pp. 1-32
Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, we find that: (1) School attainment has a significant and substantial effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500566
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Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa
Anand, Paul; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Jones, Sam - 2018
Inequalities in the opportunity to obtain a good education in low-income countries are widely understood to be related … education in East Africa requires policies that go beyond raising average school quality and should attend to the distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918294