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-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal … phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …
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early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied …, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …
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early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied …, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037965
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
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Prior to the introduction of mother tongue-based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447269
, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …
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, this paper analyzes the relation between preschool care and the well-being of children and adolescents in Germany. It also … children. Our findings, based on data from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey of Children and Adolescents …, suggest that children who have experienced child care have a slightly lower well-being overall. For migrant children, however …
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affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro …-level data from India, we find that an increase in female labor supply due to the tariff reductions was associated with a 7 … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …
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We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … program is associated with better educational outcomes of their children. Father's participation in the NREGS, on the other … hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …
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