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The effect of rainfall shocks on early childhood development in Uganda
Moorthy, Akshay - In: Economics letters 200 (2021), pp. 1-4
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Mothers care more, but fathers decide : educating parents about child health in Uganda
Björkman-Nyqvist, Martina; Jayachandran, Seema - In: The American economic review 107 (2017) 5, pp. 496-500
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Determinants of Public Investment in Early Childhood Development at Local and National Levels in Uganda
Ejuu, Godfrey - 2011
environment from Uganda have identified policy and contextual determinants as crucial for investment in ECD, while those specific … to Uganda are yet to be determined. The purpose of this study was to establish the level of investment in ECD and … 77 districts in Uganda that were stratified and later randomly selected. A total of 90 respondents including 10 ECD …
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Delivering a parenting programme in rural South Africa : the local child and youth care worker experience
Doubt, Jenny; Loening-Voysey, Heidi; Blanc, Daphnée; … - 2018
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Little cash to large households : cash transfers and children's care in disadvantaged families in Ghana
Roelen, Keetie; Chettri, Helen Karki; Delap, Emily - In: International social security review 68 (2015) 2, pp. 63-83
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Delay of gratification and the role of defaults : an experiment with kindergarten children
Sutter, Matthias; Yilmaz, Levent; Oberauer, Manuela - 2015
. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior … is malleable. In a control condition, about 50% of children prefer two rewards the next day over one reward immediately … successfully in promoting delay of gratification. We also find that patience increases with age and that more patient children have …
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Parental leave and maternal labor supply : parental leave increases the family-work balance, but may have negative impacts on mothers' careers
Kunze, Astrid - 2016
Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...
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The stress cost of children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...
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