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The impact of extreme weather events on education

Groppo, Valeria; Kraehnert, Kati - 2015

This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our focus is on two extremely severe winters that caused mass livestock mortality. We use household panel data with comprehensive retrospective information on households’ historic...

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Natural disasters and the dynamics of intangible assets

López, Ramón - 2009

temporary shock such as a natural disaster may leave permanent consequences for the economy. An obvious permanent effect of a … one-time disaster shock is that physical man-made and natural assets owned especially by poor households may end up … completely wiped out. The disaster may not be the direct cause; it may be that poor households would have to obtain minimum …

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Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countries

Behrman, Jere R. - 2019

Parental human capital and endowments may affect children's human capital, which in turn may affect children's earning and occupations and thus affect social mobility. This paper focuses on what we know about these possible links in low- and middle-income countries. It starts with definitions of...

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Child labour, human capital accumulation and foreign aid

Sirohi, Rahul A. - In: Journal of economic development 39 (2014) 3, pp. 1-14

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Gender bias and child labor in LDCs

Kumar, Alok; Underhill, Emma - 2014

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Optimal policy for secondary education in developing countries

Dosmagambet, Yergali - 2015

This paper shows that an accelerated increase in educational attainments in many East Asian countries derives from a dramatic augmentation of working population with vocational education relative to general education. This is consistent with the recent literature, which argues that the ratio of...

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