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Identifying National Level Education Reforms in Developing Settings: An Application to Ethiopia

Chicoine, Luke E. - 2016

of the national reform on schooling. This paper provides a method with which these types of reforms can be identified in … 1990s reform in Ethiopia based around the release of the Education and Training Policy, which removed schooling fees from … grades one to ten. The model estimates that the reform led to an increase in schooling of at least 1.2 years, and provides …

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The Impact of HIV/Aids on Human Capital Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Evidence

Chicoine, Luke; Lyons, Emily; Sahue, Alexia - 2020

prevalence and schooling steepened as mortality risk increased. The reduction in schooling is largest for women, and along the … extensive margin of the schooling decision. The findings indicate that the decline in human capital investment associated with …

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Covid-19 Crisis, Economic Hardships and Schooling Outcomes

Gehrke, Esther; Lenel, Friederike; Schupp, Claudia - 2022

We combine phone-survey data from 2,200 students collected in July-August of 2020 with student-level administrative data from 54 schools in four Northwestern provinces of Cambodia to investigate the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for grade 9 students. These students were particularly...

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Inequality in Internet Access in India: Implications for Learning during COVID

Datta, Sandip; Kingdon, Geeta G. - 2022

During COVID school closures, learning become mostly restricted to young people who had internet access at home. This paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young people's internet access across gender, caste, religion,...

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The Impact of Body Mass Index on Growth, Schooling, Productivity, and Savings: A Cross-Country Study

Tansel, Aysit; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021

of cognitive ability. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing …

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Income diversification and working children

Vimefall, Elin - 2015

During recent years (2004-2008) the proportion of working children in sub-Saharan Africa has increased (Diallo et al. 2010). At the same time, there has been a shift in the patterns of livelihoods, whereby households rely more on sources of income from outside their own farms. When the adult in...

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The Impact of Body Mass Index on Growth, Schooling, Productivity, and Savings: A Cross-Country Study

Tansel, Aysit; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021

relationship. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing productivities, and savings …

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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings: A cross-country study

Tansel, Aysit; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021

of cognitive ability. The growth indicators utilized are GDP per capita, schooling, overall and manufacturing …

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Impact of the right to education on school enrolment of children with disabilities: Evidence from India

Varghese, Vinitha Rachel - 2022

cent increase in schooling among children with disabilities within three years. The estimate is driven by enrolment across …

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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women

Heath, Rachel; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - 2014

educational attainment compared to a large-scale government conditional cash transfer program to encourage female schooling. …

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