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Multidimensional energy poverty and human capital development : empirical evidence from India

Rafi, Muhammed; Naseef, Mohemmad; Prasad, Salu - In: Energy economics 101 (2021), pp. 1-10

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Economic growth, income inequality and poverty in Nigeria

Tolulope, Apanisile Olumuyiwa; Osinubi, Tolulope Temilola; … - In: Journal of economics and policy analysis : a … 5 (2020) 1, pp. 1-18

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Niger Investing in Human Capital, Agricultural Productivity, and Social Protection for Faster Poverty Reduction : A Poverty Assessment

World Bank Group - 2021

pushed up to an additional people into poverty. Niger is further beset by vast infrastructure gaps, intensifying terrorism … attacks domestically, persisting conflict in the Sahel region, and intensifying environmental pressures. Robust poverty … enhanced security. This poverty assessment aims to strengthen the analytical foundation for poverty-reduction policies and …

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Aspirations, Human Capital Investment, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Indonesia

Lim, Sung Soo - 2020

This study investigates the effect of parental aspirations gap on children's educational attainment between 2007 and 2014, using two waves of Indonesian Family Life Survey data. The aspirations gap is measured by the difference between one's future reference point and his or her current life...

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The Length of Exposure to Antipoverty Transfer Programmes : What is the Relevance for Children's Human Capital Formation?

Villa, Juan Miguel - 2014

Within social protection, antipoverty transfer programmes have significantly emerged in developing countries since the late 1990s. The effects of long-term participation and the assessment of the response of children's human capital formation to different levels of exposure are still unclear....

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No small matter : the impact of poverty, shocks, and human capital investments in early childhood devlopment

Alderman, Harold (contributor) - 2011

Education is often seen as a fundamental means to improve economic prospects for individuals from low income settings. However, even with increased emphasis on basic education for all, many individuals fail to achieve basic skills to succeed in life. The book presents evidence that one core...

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The psychological effects of poverty on investments in children's human capital

Lichand, Guilherme; Bettinger, Eric; Cunha, Nina Menezes; … - 2021 - Revised version

Do poor parents respond inefficiently to future returns on investments, even when they would have the financial means to invest optimally? Combining multiple experiments, we document that when parents of high-school students in Brazil are offered the opportunity to invest in an educational...

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The Psychological Effects of Poverty on Investments in Children’s Human Capital

Lichand, Guilherme - 2020

Poverty focuses attention on present needs. Does that mean that poor parents respond inefficiently to future returns on …, significantly more when predicted returns are low. We show that such inefficient responses are driven by poverty-induced attention …

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The Psychological Effects of Poverty on Investments in Children’s Human Capital

Lichand, Guilherme - 2020

Poverty focuses attention on present needs. Does that mean that poor parents respond inefficiently to future returns on …, but also, significantly more when predicted returns are low. We show that such inefficient responses are driven by poverty …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830329

Human capital development and parental investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - In: The review of economic studies : RES 87 (2020) 6, pp. 2511-2541

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