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that improving the access of poor households to better education is expected to increase their income and reduce inequality …Using data from the 2018 Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, our study investigates the impact of education on … household income in rural Vietnam. Both mean and quantile regression analyses were employed to analyze the impact of education …
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on household demand for education in rural Thailand, using the Townsend Thai panel data spanning from 2013 to 2017 … results in increased household education expenditures conditional on children's attendance at school. These findings suggest …
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The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus and the resulting falls in demand due both to uncertainty and policy interventions such as lockdowns, "social distancing", and travel restrictions are having a severe impact on Asian economies and hence on Asian households. These negative impacts come through a...
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effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the … unobserved characteristics, a $300,000 differential in family income generated more than 2 years of education in the early 1980's …
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This study investigates the long-term effect of the density of the elite - the highest educated - during the period 1075-1919 on today's educational attainment and economic performance in Vietnam. Using nearly 20,000 elites, including 17,061 junior bachelors and bachelors, and 2,895 doctors who...
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The impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak have heavily affected CAREC member countries, which include Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Pakistan, the People's Republic of China (PRC), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The COVID-19 crisis and the...
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financial difficulty: being in a lower-income group, lower education of household head, female household head, having at least …
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We examine the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer in Lesotho using an experimental impact evaluation design. We find that the cash transfer led to different outcomes for girls and boys, overall favouring secondary school-aged girls. Girls in this age group were less likely to miss school,...
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