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Wellbeing Study, I examine the prevalence of obtaining additional education (N=3812) in the five years after a birth …. Controlling for mothers? background and resources, married mothers are less likely to obtain additional education. Cohabiting … dissolution or divorce are also more likely to obtain additional education. Postnatal educational attainment appears to be an …
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, education for all, gender equality, combating HIV/AIDS and creation of a global partnership for development. To understand … resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of education programme and poverty reduction programmes. An attempt is … made in this article to demonstrate how increased education opportunities and increased welfare reduces child labour. …
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parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child performance. We find no effects on … health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of time … education and school outcomes. …
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role of education. Estimating lifetime fertility from micro data sets is generally quite difficult since a large proportion … modelled as a function of education and a host of other variables reflecting the opportunity costs and consumption elements of … roles are examined as well. The main result is that education lowers total lifetime fertility, although the strength of this …
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In this paper, a variety of potentially explanatory indicators for child labor and school attendance in Zambia is scrutinized. By analysing the results from a bivariate probit model, new doubt is raised with regard to the income sensitivity of the child labor choice. Different factors in the...
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Mixed-aged classes (MA-classes) are a common phenomenon around the world. In Sweden, these types of classes increased rapidly during the 1980:s and 1990:s. But the scientific evidence of the benefits of MA-classes is not convincing. In this paper, we estimate the effect of attending an MA-class...
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's involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity. For high-educated parents, we also find that both … parents' involvement in education and neighborhood's quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of … education, the former being more potent than the latter. Low-educated parents do not spend much time educating their offspring …
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recent macroeconomic literature on child labor: the substitution, subsistence, <p> capital market and parental education …
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mechanisms on education. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional (CCT) or …
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as well. This is manifested as low intergenerational mobility in terms of both education and occupation in developing …
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