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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 … control for endogeneity; and (4) point to limitations in using adult school attainment alone to represent human capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500566
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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 … control for endogeneity; and (4) point to limitations in using adult school attainment alone to represent human capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254285
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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 countries by using unique longitudinal data begun during...
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
produced primarily by schooling and (b) schooling is statistically predetermined. But these assumptions may lead to misleading … inferences about impacts of schooling and of pre-schooling and post-schooling experiences on adult cognitive skills. This study … adult (i) reading-comprehension and (ii) nonverbal cognitive skills as dependent on behaviorally-determined pre-schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005102107
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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
to household resources and schooling quality. Yet, to date, most researchers have investigated the contributions of these … finds evidence of substantial geographical heterogeneity in schooling quality. The paper concludes that promoting equity in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984630
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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
to household resources and schooling quality. Yet, to date, most researchers have investigated the contributions of these … finds evidence of substantial geographical heterogeneity in schooling quality. The paper concludes that promoting equity in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918294
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Female Headship and Poverty in the Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on a New Typology
AlAzzawi, Shireen; Dang, Hai-Anh; Hlasny, Vladimir; … - 2023
Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet, previous studies have mixed results and despite the availability of cross-sectional data, the absence of household panel survey data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469651
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Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countries
Behrman, Jere R. - 2019
Parental human capital and endowments may affect children's human capital, which in turn may affect children's earning … middle-income countries. It starts with definitions of human capital and endowments and simple frameworks for guiding the … children's human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and health, which pertain directly to some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146581
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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 - 2019
to household resources and schooling quality. Yet, to date, most researchers have investigated the contributions of these … finds evidence of substantial geographical heterogeneity in schooling quality. The paper concludes that promoting equity in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964916
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Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countries
Behrman, Jere R. - 2019
Parental human capital and endowments may affect children's human capital, which in turn may affect children's earning … middle-income countries. It starts with definitions of human capital and endowments and simple frameworks for guiding the … children’s human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and health, which pertain directly to some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129659