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The long(er)-term impacts of Chile Solidario on human capital and labour income
Neidhöfer, Guido; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017
preferential access to a conditional cash transfer programme designed to facilitate investments in children's health and education … children, but is positive and significant for women without children. The effects on both education and labour income are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775918
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Chapter 2. The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries : Evidence From 196 Randomized Field Experiments
Fryer, R.G. - 2017
Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
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Can we grow with our children? : the effects of a comprehensive early childhood development program
Rude, Britta - 2022
I exploit the staggered roll-out of a universal early childhood development program in Chile to assess the impact of a comprehensive approach to early childhood development on outcomes in middle childhood. Using variation across time and municipalities, I study outcomes such as school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190728
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Middle-run impacts of comprehensive early childhood interventions : evidence from a pioneer program in Chile
Rude, Britta - 2022
pronounced for girls and socioeconomically vulnerable children. Impacts on several other child development outcomes also differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013443702
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Are returns to education on the decline in Venezuela and does mission sucre have a role to play?
Gonzales, Naihobe; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2009
There is anecdotal evidence that the standard of living for the educated has fallen in Venezuela over the last few years. This evidence comes as a surprise because after experiencing an economic downturn in 2002 and 2003, Venezuela's economy has boomed (gross domestic product growth has hovered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269036
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Access to Schools & Intergenerational Human Capital : Evidence from India
Sunder, Naveen - 2018
Programme (DPEP), on educational outcomes of direct beneficiaries and their children. Between the years 1993-2004, DPEP served … over 50 million children and prioritized districts with below-average female literacy rates. This structure facilitates a … fuzzy regression discontinuity design that compares outcomes of school-age children in districts near the average female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932251
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Chapter 73. Investment in EducationInputs and Incentives
Behrman, Jere R. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4883-4975). 2010
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, but is not limited to, formal educational activities such...
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Skill formation and the trouble with child non-cognitive skill measures
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293676
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A note on the importance of normalizations in dynamic latent factor models of skill formation
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293678
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
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