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matter of concern in the region. We study this issue for Uganda, investigating whether the migration of household members …
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This paper studies household financial choices: why are these decisions dependent on the education level of the … household? A life-cycle model is constructed to understand a rich set of facts about decisions of households with different …, education affects household finance mainly through increased average income. The estimation also finds evidence that higher …
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factors influence a household's schooling decision, the direct and indirect costs of education are important particularly for … schools are allowed to charge. This brief examines household education spending patterns and trends between 2003 and 2009. It …
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This paper finds households with children and elderly dependents, the "Sandwich Generation," significantly reduce both college savings and stockholding. Having any elderly dependents decreases the probability of both stockholding and college savings by twice as much as poor personal health....
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Access to electricity is crucial for economic development and there is a growing body of literature on the impact of rural electrification on development. However, most studies have so far relied on cross-sectional surveys comparing households with and without electricity, which have well known...
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We provide empirical evidence supporting a causal link between education and risk attitudes when using representative data from representative surveys and artefactual or lab-on-the-field experiments in Lima, Peru. We employ three standard experimental measures of risk attitudes and find that...
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collected through census collections, labour force surveys or through omnibus household surveys. These commonly use simple … measures: respondents’ reports of their own or other household members’ capacity to read and write or the capacity of the … information regarding literacy proficiency, household surveys using simple measures will continue to be a primary source of data …
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various channels. Men’s migration may lead to women taking over household decisions regarding education expenditures … results of the selection model suggest that being a left-behind household is significantly positively associated with …
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