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mechanisms on education. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional (CCT) or …
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constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure of child ability for all primary school … and how much to invest in their child’s education. We find children with one standard deviation higher own ability are 16 …
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recent macroeconomic literature on child labor: the substitution, subsistence, capital market and parental education …
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. Similarly to international evidence, we found that education, age, family size, employment and occupation of the household head …'s student enrollment rates over different generations improved considerably, reducing the education-gap compared to Arab men … indirect effect toward the completion of schooling, thus keeping mothers’ fertility relatively high and reducing education …
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recent macroeconomic literature on child labor: the substitution, subsistence, <p> capital market and parental education …
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This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...
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From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …
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mediation effects are found for parenting or child care. Results imply that encouraging mothers to continue their education soon …
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We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...
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We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183122