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Gone with the flood : natural disasters and children's schooling in Pakistan
Khan, Qaisar; Hussain, Karrar - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 23 (2023) 1, pp. 271-283
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Impact of paternal temporary absence on children left behind
Booth, Alison L.; Tamura, Yuji - 2009
Using the first two waves of the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, we investigate how a father's temporary absence affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is...
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Entrepreneurship and human capital development in children
Brandt, Kasper; Rutasitara, Longinus; Selejio, Onesmo; … - 2017
operating a non-farm enterprise (NFE) as opposed to working in agriculture relates to child labour and schooling outcomes …
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Price shocks and human capital : timing matters
Beshir, Habtamu Ali; Maystadt, Jean-François - 2022
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The fading productivity of schooling in East Asia.
Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2001
We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on … changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors … should indicate declining relative schooling productivity. We find that the price of schooling increased by more than the …
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Education, child labor and human capital formation in selected urban and rural settings of Pakistan
Lodhi, Abdul Salam - 2013
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The impact of remittances on children's human capital accumulation : evidence from Morocco
Bouoiyour, Jamal; Miftah, Amal - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 28 (2016) 2, pp. 266-280
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School, shocks, and safety nets : can conditional cash transfers protect human capital investments during rainfall shocks?
Fitz, Dylan; League, Riley - In: The journal of development studies 57 (2021) 12, pp. 2002-2026
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Women's economic capacity and children's human capital accumulation
Hoop, Jacobus de; Premand, Patrick; Rosati, Furio Camillo; … - 2017
Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through which these programs may affect children's activities....
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What happens to the labor supply and schooling of the children left behind by temporary migrants?
Booth, Alison L.; Tamura, Yuji - In: The Singapore economic review 67 (2022) 4, pp. 1457-1478
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