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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. …
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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 …
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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...
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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
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...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Schooling is a major factor in economic development. There is a large empirical literature on what determines schooling … attainment. But most of this literature uses micro data to explore connections between schooling attainment and family background … schooling attainment closely to changes in aggregate economic conditions. This paper uses a new high quality data set for 18 …
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Economic inequalities reflect inequalities in educational opportunities which in turnare due to both household and school-related factors. Although these factors plausiblyco-vary, few studies have considered the extent to which sorting between schools andhouseholds might aggravate educational...
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