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This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...
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-employed rises for an individual with education but not monotonically so. Indeed, the impact of education on likelihood of self …-employed varies considerably based on gender, caste and age when the level of education rises. A cohort based analysis for …-employment and education, usually part of analytical frameworks but inadequately addressed empirically, should be useful for better …
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migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant children are left-behind in rural villages and … growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes … and education outcomes. We also find that what the literature has always done (using contemporaneous measure for parental …
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We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides identifying variation. We find no effects of the hardship...
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We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides identifying variation. We find no effects of the hardship...
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; Age-heaping ; Education ; Gender inequality ; Numeracy ; Development ; Asia …
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This paper begins by highlighting some key characteristics of the demographic transition and child education and their … over the last three censuses of India there is considerable variation by space, by poverty status and by education of women …, female education and per capita monthly expenditure of households as well as by social groups. We find evidence of gender …
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This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from … a large survey of households. Three generations who completed education during the period from pre-1949 to the beginning … of the 2000s are included. The focus is on the influence of family class status (chengfen) on offspring education. Our …
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youth were mandated to resettle in the countryside---on rural education. Using a county-level dataset compiled from local …
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education in Protestant denominations …
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