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-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic poverty into account as an important …
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community-model continues to take aggregate and idiosyncratic poverty into account as an important driver of absence from school …
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Household poverty is a powerful motive for child labor and working frequently comes at the expense of schooling for …
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In this paper, I explore in an overlapping generations framework, a mechanism motivating a neurobiological poverty trap …. Poverty causes stress and depression in individuals susceptible to depression. Poor and depressed individuals discount the … depression but also stress and poverty. I show that a successful one-time intervention has the power to permanently eliminate the …
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We set up a unified growth model with gender-specific differences in tastes for consumption, fertility, education of daughters and sons, and consider the intra-household bargaining power of spouses. In line with the empirical regularity for less developed countries, we assume that mothers desire...
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Messung menschlicher Armut und Entwicklung gibt es seit den späten 70er Jahren zunehmendes Interesse an der Ökonomie des …
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Women in developing countries face challenges in terms of managing their menstrual hygiene. Oftentimes they do not possess the right means nor materials nor have access to the right facilities. Using a newly released dataset for Burkina Faso and propensity score matching, we provide for the...
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