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Nudging parents to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay
Mateo Díaz, Mercedes; Becerra Luna, Laura; … - 2020
-year-olds. However, more than a third of children enrolled in preschool programs have insufficient attendance, with absenteeism higher in … results ranged widely across groups. Attendance by children in the 25th 75th percentiles of absenteeism rose by 0.320.68 days …. Behavioral interventions seeking to reduce absenteeism and raise test scores usually nudge parents on both the importance of …
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Migrant Adolescent Girls in Urban Slums India : Aspirations, Opportunities and Challenges
Agarwal, Siddharth; Jones, Eleri; Verma, Shabnam - 2017
Background: Many adolescents grow-up with inadequate access to opportunities facing challenges and risks. This study focuses on recently migrant adolescent girls in India’s fast growing urban slum population for whom multiple vulnerabilities intersect, including gender, poverty and migrant...
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Financial Incentives for Adoption and Kin Guardianship Improve Achievement for Foster Children
Simon, David; Sojourner, Aaron; Pedersen, Jon; Skallet, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper reports new evidence that giving financial rewards for adopting a child from foster care or becoming a kin guardian improves the later school performance of these children. It uses linked administrative data to examine a policy change in Minnesota. This change increased the payments...
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The Effect of a Large Expansion of Pre-Primary School Facilities on Preschool Attendance and Maternal Employment
Galiani, Sebastian; Berlinski, Samuel - Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés - 2005
We provide evidence on the impact of a large construction of pre-primary school facilities in Argentina. We estimate the causal impact of the program on pre-primary school attendance and maternal labor supply. Identification relies on a differences-in-differences strategy where we combine...
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HISTORICAL AND SOCIO-POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE STRATIFICATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA’S SOCIETY
MOCANU, Victor; DUMBRĂVEANU, Andrei - In: ECONOMY AND SOCIOLOGY: Theoretical and Scientifical Journal (2013) 2, pp. 190-199
This paper represents a collection of studies on the formation processes of new social structures, trends stratification of society in Moldova after two decades of independence, on assuming democratic values, on promoting economic, political, scientific and cultural freedom, as well as the human...
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Poor parents, rich children: the role of schooling, nonfarm work, and migration in rural Philippines
Estudillo, Jonna P.; Mano, Yukichi; Sawada, Yasuyuki; … - In: Philippine Review of Economics 51 (2014) 2, pp. 21-46
This paper explores how migration to local towns, big cities, and overseas has halted the transmission of poverty from parents to children in rural Philippines. Parents’ income has come mainly from agricultural sources while children’s income has come largely from nonfarm sources. Initially,...
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Not just for poor kids: The impact of universal free school breakfast on meal participation and student outcomes
Leos-Urbel, Jacob; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Weinstein, Meryle; … - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 88-107
This paper examines the impact of the implementation of a universal free school breakfast policy on meals program participation, attendance, and academic achievement. In 2003, New York City made school breakfast free for all students regardless of income, while increasing the price of lunch for...
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Social inequalities in Europe: Facing the challenge
Allmendinger, Jutta; von den Driesch, Ellen - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2014
This discussion paper describes the extent of social inequalities both within and between the countries of the European Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income. The following chapters analyse the societal...
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Learning versus Working; Factors Affecting Adolescent Time Allocation in Pakista
Mete, Cem; Lloyd, Cynthia B.; Salam, Naveeda - In: The Pakistan Development Review 51 (2012) 2, pp. 131-151
This paper explores how family, school and community factors influence adolescents’ time allocation among market work, domestic work, learning and leisure. We model adolescents’ time use in a multivariate framework, using explanatory variables characterising the household as well as labour...
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Canadian Inequality: Recent Development and Policy Options
Fortin, Nicole M.; Green, David A.; Lemieux, Thomas; … - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Considerable concern has recently been expressed about growing income inequality. Much of the discussion, though, has been in general terms and focused on the U.S. experience. To understand whether and how Canada ought to respond to this development, we need to be clear on the facts. This paper...
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