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parents who openly expressed appreciation of the importance of secular schooling were more likely to send male children to …Using data from Pakistan, this study analyzed the effect of various individual, household, and community level … characteristics on the probability that children engage in different activities. According to the existing trend of their prevalence …
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In 2008, about 12 percent of five- to fifteen-year-old children were not in school, five years later this had gone down ….45 percent in 2013. In this paper, we examine this decline in the proportion of out-of-school children and improved primary … program that requires families under the program to send their children to school. These three broad public programs to invest …
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This paper theoretically investigates how community approval or disapproval affects school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of the community feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-) schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take...
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children age 5-14 in Mexico. I accomplish this using a household fixed effects model and data from two waves of the Mexican … Family Life Survey (MxFLS). The results indicate that working increases school expenditure shares for working children. In …
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