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Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor
Bau, Natalie; Rotemberg, Martin; Shah, Manisha; … - 2022
investment, we show that increased early life investment reduces schooling in districts with high child labor. These effects … rich set of district-level characteristics. We provide evidence that reductions in educational investment in response to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312318
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Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor
Bau, Natalie - 2020
investment, we show that increased early life investment reduces schooling in districts with high child labor, especially for … evidence that reductions in educational investment in response to positive early life shocks are inefficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481824
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Drought of opportunities : contemporaneous and long-term impacts of rainfall shocks on human capital
Shah, Manisha; Steinberg, Bryce Millett - 2015
scores and schooling from rural India, we show that higher wages increase human capital investment in early life (in utero to … fairly young children, is an important factor in determining overall human capital investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375976
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Workfare and human capital investment : evidence from India
Shah, Manisha; Steinberg, Bryce Millett - 2015
programs in the world, on human capital investment. Since NREGS increases labor demand, it could increase the opportunity cost … of schooling, lowering human capital investment even as incomes increase. We exploit the staged rollout of the program … investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387105
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The Right to Education Act : Trends in Enrollment, Test Scores, and School Quality
Shah, Manisha - 2019
The Right to Education Act in 2009 guaranteed access to free primary education for all children in India ages 6-14. This paper investigates whether national trends in educational data changed around the time of this law using household surveys and administrative data. We document four trends:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891328
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The Right to Education Act : Trends in Enrollment, Test Scores, and School Quality
Shah, Manisha - 2019
The Right to Education Act in 2009 guaranteed access to free primary education for all children in India ages 6-14. This paper investigates whether national trends in educational data changed around the time of this law using household surveys and administrative data. We document four trends:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479561
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The right to education act : trends in enrollment, test scores, and school quality
Shah, Manisha; Steinberg, Bryce Millett - In: AEA papers and proceedings 109 (2019), pp. 232-238
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The Right to Education Act : trends in enrollment, test scores, and school quality
Shah, Manisha; Steinberg, Bryce Millett - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997485
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Intra-household resource allocation : do parents educe or reinforce child cognitive ability gaps?
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shah, Manisha - 2010
observed ability differences and observed investment differences between siblings in the NLSY. To overcome endogeneity issues … implications for education policy. -- children ; cognitive ability ; parental investment ; handedness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008989713
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Drought of opportunities : contemporaneous and long term impacts of rainfall shocks on human capital
Shah, Manisha; Steinberg, Bryce Millett - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766863