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Education is considered an important means of alleviating poverty and of improving an individual's job and earnings …
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education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in developing counties since 1960, but many children … of education and other policies on the quantity and quality of education obtained by children in developing countries …
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could also improve their education outcomes. Given the importance of education for economic development, this link could be … the impact of child health on education outcomes, but there are formidable obstacles to obtaining credible estimates. Data … sources of bias when attempting to estimate relationships between child health and education. This Chapter provides an …
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of education. Relationships are stronger in countries characterized by higher GDP per capita, Human Development Index … the child, yet less so by sex and birth order. Homogamous couples where both partners share high levels of education are …, and female education, yet also in countries with higher income and gender inequalities. Besides stressing the importance …
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Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...
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Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...
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. Similarly to international evidence, we found that education, age, family size, employment and occupation of the household head …'s student enrollment rates over different generations improved considerably, reducing the education-gap compared to Arab men … indirect effect toward the completion of schooling, thus keeping mothers’ fertility relatively high and reducing education …
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; education ; development …Education is considered an important means of alleviating poverty and of improving an individual’s job and earnings … importance of these higher levels over time. -- Primary school enrollment ; household-level ; multilevel modeling ; Caribbean …
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Using two dimensions of exogenous geographic variation in exposure to 1992 reforms that introduced seat quotas for women in local government in India, I find a one percentage-point increase in the school enrollment rate of young women for each additional year of exposure to women leaders. This...
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