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children’s human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and health, which pertain directly to some …
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We are on the threshold of a truly revolutionary era of discovery - ranging from the origins of the universe to new states of matter and microscopic machines, from a new understanding of the oceans and of the biological connections across the Earth's species to the functioning of the human brain...
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Countries in sub-Saharan Africa are some of the poorest and least developed in the world, with deplorable health and … health levels, education and institutional quality as explanatory variables. My analysis yields some evidence, especially in … panel regressions with time-fixed effects, in support of the hypothesis that countries with poorer health and education …
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We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital through a combination of the quality of child-rearing and formal schooling. The existence of multiple steady states is established, including a poverty trap, wherein children work...
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health, household income, and labor market participation by enhancing participants’ health knowledge and income …
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children's human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and health, which pertain directly to some …
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Health is one of the most important assets for human beings, since it allows people to fully use their capacity. Poor … or compromised health reduces the well-being of individuals, by affecting their future incomes, wealth and consumption …
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overlapping generations framework with finite-lived households we analyze the relevance of government expenditure on health and …
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Uneven success of poverty-based approaches calls for a re-think of the causes behind persistent child labour in many developing societies. We develop a theoretical model to highlight the role of income inequality as a channel of persistence. The interplay between income inequality and...
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This paper assesses the effect of a sequence of natural disasters on children’s health that hit Mozambique at the start … literature on the subject of the impact of shocks on child health in the developing world by focusing on measurement errors …
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