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This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …
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encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape … variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income …
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education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …
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could also improve their education outcomes. Given the importance of education for economic development, this link could be … the impact of child health on education outcomes, but there are formidable obstacles to obtaining credible estimates. Data … sources of bias when attempting to estimate relationships between child health and education. This Chapter provides an …
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This article deals with the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic on poverty and education in Africa. It considers the scale … and scope of the pandemic and its anticipated impact on education systems in heavily infected sub-Saharan African … (SADC) region. The paper concludes by suggesting how the education sector can improve its management response to the …
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Despite continuous efforts to improve the coverage, the access to electricity remains insufficient in many developing countries, particularly in geographically challenged locations, due mostly to the high cost of grid extension. To rigorously investigate the effectiveness of solar products as an...
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educational vulnerability and capability formation. They are deprived of basic education and therefore become bonded to the low … policies taken by Sarva Shikhsa Abhiyan in ensuring education of these migrant children has also been examined. Children are …
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and education are often included. But these are not necessarily the most direct measures of the things that matter to …
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educated mothers. Also the father's education is positively (negatively) related to child schooling (work), but the effect is …
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The purpose of this article is to identify to what extent there is a causal relationship between wealth and non-cognitive skills for children in Colombia. This article contributes to the existing literature of skills formation in three ways. First, methodological shortcomings of previous works...
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