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Female secondary school attendance has recently increased in Sub-Saharan Africa and so has the risk of becoming pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women's human capital. We instrument early pregnancy with the young...
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We study the determinants of educational and cognitive outcomes of young adults in Madagascar and Senegal employing a production function approach. Using unique and comparable long-term panel data sets from both countries, we find that cognitive skills measured using test scores in second grade...
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characteristics and school factors to the cognitive skills of children ages 8-10 and 14-16. In contrast to most achievement test … studies in developing countries, the study uses representative rather than school-based samples of children and combines … fathers, perhaps reflecting differences in parental time spent with children on schoolwork. Even these effects, however, are …
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