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What determines adult cognitive skills? : influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala

Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 23 (2014), pp. 1-32

Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, we find that: (1) School attainment has a significant and substantial effect...

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What determines adult cognitive skills? Influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala

Behrman, Jere; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John; … - In: Latin American Economic Review 23 (2014) 1, pp. 1-32

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Effects of a single cash transfer on school re-enrollment during COVID-19 among vulnerable adolescent girls in Kenya : randomized controlled trial

Maluccio, John A.; Soler-Hampejsek, Erica; Kangwana, Beth; … - In: Economics of education review 95 (2023), pp. 1-12

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Disability and self-rated health among older women and men in rural Guatemala: The role of obesity and chronic conditions

Yount, Kathryn M.; Hoddinott, John; Stein, Aryeh D. - In: Social Science & Medicine 71 (2010) 8, pp. 1418-1427

Unprecedented population aging in poorer settings is coinciding with the rapid spread of obesity and other chronic conditions. These conditions predict disability and poor self-rated health and often are more prevalent in women than men. Thus, gender gaps in obesity and other chronic conditions...

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Periods of child growth up to age 8 years in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam: Key distal household and community factors

Schott, Whitney B.; Crookston, Benjamin T.; Lundeen, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 97 (2013) C, pp. 278-287

Recent research has demonstrated some growth recovery among children stunted in infancy. Less is known about key age ranges for such growth recovery, and what factors are correlates with this growth. This study characterized child growth up to age 1 year, and from ages 1 to 5 and 5 to 8 years...

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Intergenerational transmission of poverty and inequality : parental resources and schooling attainment and children's human capital in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam

Behrman, Jere R.; Schott, Whitney; Mani, Subha; … - In: Economic development and cultural change 65 (2017) 4, pp. 657-697

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Health and Nutrition and Economic Development

Alderman, Harold; Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John - In: International Handbook of Development Economics, …

This two-volume original reference work provides a comprehensive overview of development economics and comprises contributions by some of the leading scholars working in the field. Authors are drawn from around the world and write on a wide range of topics.

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Challenges in Measuring the Sequencing of Life Events Among Adolescents in Malawi: A Cautionary Note

Mensch, Barbara; Soler-Hampejsek, Erica; Kelly, Christine; … - In: Demography 51 (2014) 1, pp. 277-285

Using data from two rounds of the Malawi Schooling and Adolescent Survey, this research note examines consistency of retrospective reporting on the timing and sequencing of sexual initiation, school leaving, and marriage. The analysis, which compares reporting of events both within and between...

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Childhood nutrition and later fertility: Pathways through education and pre-pregnant nutritional status

Graff, Mariaelisa; Yount, Kathryn; Ramakrishnan, Usha; … - In: Demography 47 (2010) 1, pp. 125-144

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Malnutrition in early life and adult mental health: Evidence from a natural experiment

Huang, Cheng; Phillips, Michael R.; Zhang, Yali; Zhang, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 97 (2013) C, pp. 259-266

As natural experiments, famines provide a unique opportunity to test the health consequences of nutritional deprivation during the critical period of early life. Using data on 4972 Chinese born between 1956 and 1963 who participated in a large mental health epidemiology survey conducted between...

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