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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011564646
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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309995
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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317637
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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476554
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Heterogeneous Effects of Women's Schooling on Fertility, Literacy and Work: Evidence from Burundi's Free Primary Education Policy
Wild, Frederik; Stadelmann, David - 2020
This article investigates women's returns to schooling by exploiting Burundi's free primary education policy (FPE) of … 2005 as a natural experiment. Credibly exogenous variation in education is identified through a fuzzy regression … reduced fertility through policy induced education, while there are almost no effects of additional education for non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287895
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The Impact of Hiv/Aids on Human Capital Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa : New Evidence
Chicoine, Luke - 2020
The risk of AIDS-related mortality increased dramatically throughout the 1990s. This paper updates previous work by Fortson (2011) to examine the impact of mortality risk on human capital investment during the deadliest period of the pandemic. We combine Demographic Health Survey data from 30...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825005
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The impact of HIV/Aids on human capital investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: new evidence
Chicoine, Luke E.; Lyons, Emily; Sahue, Alexia - 2020
The risk of AIDS-related mortality increased dramatically throughout the 1990s. This paper updates previous work by Fortson (2011) to examine the impact of mortality risk on human capital investment during the deadliest period of the pandemic. We combine Demographic Health Survey data from 30...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267597
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Heterogeneous effects of women's schooling on fertility, literacy and work : evidence from Burundi's free primary education policy
Wild, Frederik; Stadelmann, David - 2020
This article investigates women's returns to schooling by exploiting Burundi's free primary education policy (FPE) of … 2005 as a natural experiment. Credibly exogenous variation in education is identified through a fuzzy regression … reduced fertility through policy induced education, while there are almost no effects of additional education for non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012435569
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The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Human Capital Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa : New Evidence
Chicoine, Luke - 2020
The risk of AIDS-related mortality increased dramatically throughout the 1990s. This paper updates previous work by Fortson (2011) to examine the impact of mortality risk on human capital investment during the deadliest period of the pandemic. We combine Demographic Health Survey data from 30...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848213
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Does Famine Matter For Aggregate Adolescent Human Capital Acquisition In Sub-Saharan Africa?
Agbor, Julius A.; Price, Gregory N. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012
To the extent that in utero and childhood malnutrition negatively affects later stage mental and physical health, it can possibly constrain later stage human capital acquisition, which is an important driver of economic growth. This paper considers the impact of famine on aggregate adolescent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598098