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Intergenerational effects of grandparental care on children and parents
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021 - First draft
Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in most OECD countries. Despite its relevance, the effects of child care provided by grandparents on child and parental outcomes have received little attention in the literature....
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Child education and work : evidence from Mexico's full-time school program
Kozhaya, Mireille; Martinez Flores, Fernanda - 2020 - This version: June 2020
Mexico, on school enrollment, time spent on schooling activities, and child labor of children aged 7 to 14. We take advantage …
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Does test-based teacher recruitment work in the developing world? : experimental evidence from Ecuador
Araujo P., Maria Daniela; Heineck, Guido; Cruz Aguayo, … - 2021
Since 2007, the Ecuadorian government has required teacher candidates to pass national skill and content knowledge tests before they are allowed to participate in merit-based selection competitions for tenured positions at public schools in an attempt to raise teacher quality. We evaluate the...
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An intensive, school-based learning camp targeting academic and non-cognitive skills evaluated in a randomized trial
Hvidman, Charlotte; Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia; … - 2021
We evaluate two variants of a school-based, intensive learning camp for pupils who are assessed 'not ready' for further education after compulsory school, using a stratified cluster randomized trial involving 15,559 pupils in 264 schools in Denmark. Next to training pupils in Danish and...
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The informational life of the poor : a study of digital access in three Mexican towns
Mariscal Avilés, Judith; Benítez Larghi, Sebastián; … - 2015
different levels of marginalization and connectivity in Mexico. Using "before and after" studies we attempt to identify and …
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Fiscal policy, income redistribution and poverty reduction in Latin America: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay
Lustig, Nora - In: Contemporary issues in development economics, (pp. 11-18). 2016
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Regional GDP in Mexico, 1895-2010
Aguilar Retureta, José; Badia-Miró, Marc; Herranz … - In: Time and space : Latin American regional development in …, (pp. 211-239). 2020
analysing the case of Mexico from 1895 to 2010. Economic differences among Mexican regions are substantial and have been … may have different trends and determinants from those of the industrialized economies. In the case of Mexico, regional … activity in Mexico City and a clear division between the rich North and the poor South. By contrast, the period from 1940 to …
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An ordinal approach to the measurement of inequality in asset ownership : methodology and an application to Mexican data
Berenger, Valérie; Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques; … - In: Revue d'économie politique 128 (2018) 5, pp. 969-1012
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Testing the core-competency model of multi-product exporters
Eckel, Carsten; Iacovone, Leonardo; Javorcik, Beata K. … - In: Review of international economics 24 (2016) 4, pp. 699-716
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Are social exclusion and poverty measures interrelated? : a study with Spanish data
Sánchez, Cristina; Cortiñas, Pedro; Calvo, José Luís - 2012
One of the targets of Europe's growth strategy (Europe 2020) is "reduction of poverty by aiming to lift at least 20 million people out of the risk of poverty or social exclusion". Since poverty is a multidimensional concept, EUROSTAT proposes three indicators to calculate it: people at...
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