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How children's schooling and work are affected when their father leaves permanently : evidence from Colombia
Fitzsimons, Emla; Mesnard, Alice - 2012
This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school enrolment by around 4 percentage points, and increases...
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A roma és nem roma tanulók teszteredményei közti különbségekről és e különbségek okairól
Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor - 2012
This study quantifies the achievement gap between Roma and non-Roma students in Hungary and assesses the potential causes of the gap. According to reading and mathematics test scores measured in eighth grade, the gap is substantial. Its magnitude is similar to the gap between African American...
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Training and individual performance in Europe : evidence from microeconometric studies
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000
Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms...
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Early childhood development : wealth, the nurturing environment and inequality first results from the PRIDI database
Verdisco, Aimée E.; Cueto, Santiago; Thompson, Jennelle - 2016
This paper presents findings from the Regional Project on Child Development Indicators, PRIDI for its acronym in Spanish. PRIDI created a new tool, the Engle Scale, for evaluating development in children aged 24 to 59 months in four domains: cognition, language and communication, socio-emotional...
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Inequality in household adaptation to schooling shocks : Covid-induced online learning engagement in real time
Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; Goodman, Joshua S.; Mulhern, Christine - 2020
We use high frequency internet search data to study in real time how US households sought out online learning resources as schools closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. By April 2020, nationwide search intensity for both school- and parent-centered online learning resources had roughly doubled...
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Impact of early life shocks on human capital formation : El Niño floods in Ecuador
Rosales, María Fernanda - 2014
variation in children's exposure to a negative shock at different periods early in life. It is shown that children exposed to … explored by studying how exposure to the El Niño shock affected key inputs to the production of children's human capital: birth … 1997-98 suffered a decline in income, total consumption, and food consumption in the aftermath of the shock. Moreover …
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"Too shocked to search": the COVID-19 shutdowns' impact on the search for apprenticeships
Goller, Daniel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2021
This study is, to the best of our knowledge, the first analysis of apprenticeship supply that allows us to analyse the effects of the shutdowns triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic before, during and after these shutdowns by means of daily searches for vacant apprenticeships. Analysing over 10...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517845
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The effect of labor market shocks across the life cycle
Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2021
considerably depending on when the shock occurs. We conclude that effects of adverse labor shocks are both more varied and more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745247
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Going back to school takes time : evidence from a negative trade shock
Garon, Jean-Denis; Haeck, Catherine; Bourassa-Viau, Simon - 2020
We estimate the impact of a negative trade shock on labour market outcomes and educational choices of workers. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162505
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Labour market shocks during the COVID-19 pandemic, inequalities and child outcomes
Hupkau, Claudia; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Machin, Stephen; … - 2020
We study the effect of negative labour market shocks borne by parents during the Covid-19 crisis on resource and time investments in children and the channels through which negative labour market shocks experienced by parents might affect children. Using data collected in the UK before and...
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