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This dissertation contains three essays at the interface of agricultural and development economics. The motivation for this lies in the fact that various studies have shown the agricultural sector to be the main income source for the majority of the global poor and it will hence have to play a...
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rising average attendance, while inequality in completion rates or schooling years increases with rising completion rates or … initial inequality in education. At the regional level, educational progress was generally more pro-poor in Asia and Latin … America, while in Africa the experience is very heterogeneous. While gender inequality has decreased slightly, large …
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One consequence of the rise in inequality witnessed over the past 40 years is its potentially negative impact on … capital. I consider whether public investments in children can potentially offset the inequality of private investments … of family background and declines in inequality in the production of child human capital as measured by the Program for …
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We study the contribution of parental similarity in schooling levels to the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within the family in which parental sorting can translate into intergenerational transmission, or...
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We study the contribution of parental similarity in schooling levels to the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within the family in which parental sorting can translate into intergenerational transmission, or...
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tend to receive care of higher measured quality and higher cost. Inequality is evident at home as well: measures of …-income households, reduces inequality in care provided, but it is mainly limited to older children and to the lowest income households …
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