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Mothers’ Non-Farm Entrepreneurship and Child Secondary Education in Rural Ghana
Janssens, Charlotte - 2018
In this paper we empirically analyse the impact of mothers' non-farm entrepreneurship on child secondary school … estimation techniques with instruments that pass weak and overidentification tests. We test interaction effects between mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928241
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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Characteristics in Rural China
Leight, Jessica - 2018
suggest that there is significant heterogeneity with respect to maternal education. More educated mothers appear to compensate … educated mothers reinforce these differences. Most importantly, there is evidence that these compensatory investments are … associated with the narrowing of non-cognitive deficits over time for children of more educated mothers, while there is no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915708
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The Effect of Maternal Migration on Early Childhood Development in Rural China
Yue, Ai - 2016
Nearly a quarter of all children under the age of two in China are left behind in the countryside as parents migrate to urban areas for work. We use a longitudinal survey following young children and their caregivers from 6 to 30 months of age to estimate the effects of maternal migration on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976971
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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Skills in Rural China
Leight, Jessica - 2016
education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more … educated mothers compensate for these differences. Most importantly, there is evidence that these compensatory investments lead … to catch-up in non-cognitive skills over time for children of more educated mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992648
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Effects of maternal immunization on birth weight in rural Cameroon
Tambi, Mbu Daniel - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427058
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Maternal investments in children : the role of expected effort and returns
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Delavande, Adeline; Gilabert, … - 2020
that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193696
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An in-depth analysis of the entrepreneurship of rural Chinese mothers and the digital inclusive finance
Shao, Kaichao; Ma, Ruixue; Kamber, Joseph - In: Telecommunications policy : the international journal … 47 (2023) 7, pp. 1-21
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014367375
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Economic Consequences of Maternal Illness in Rural Bangladesh
Hoque, Mohammad Enamul; Powell-Jackson, Timothy - 2010
We use panel data on household consumption combined with information taken from the medical records of women who gave birth in health facilities to explore the economic consequences of maternal ill health, in the context of a rural population in Bangladesh. We find that households are able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196498
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Maternal Education, Parental Investment and Non-Cognitive Skills in Rural China
Leight, Jessica - 2016
education; less educated mothers appear to reinforce differences in non-cognitive skills between their children, while more … educated mothers compensate for these differences. Most importantly, there is evidence that these compensatory investments lead … to catch-up in non-cognitive skills over time for children of more educated mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456442