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What determines adult cognitive skills?: Impacts of preschooling, schooling, and post-schooling experiences in Guatemala
Behrman, Jere R.; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"Most investigations into the importance and determinants of adult cognitive skills assume that (1) they are produced primarily by schooling, and (2) schooling is statistically predetermined or exogenous. This study uses longitudinal data collected in Guatemala over 35 years to investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038027
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Child labor and schooling responses to production and health shocks in northern Mali:
Dillon, Andrew - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
"This paper investigates children's time allocation to schooling, home production, and market production using a unique data set collected from northern Mali. Production shocks from harvest period pest infestations induce households to withdraw children from school and increase the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038087
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An analysis of institutions and policy processes for selected antipoverty interventions in Bangladesh:
Ahmed, Akhter U.; Khondkar, Mubina - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
aspects of new agricultural technology interventions and the policy processes of food- and cash-based education incentive …. The paper then examines the motivation and policy processes of the Food for Education program and its subsequent … replacement, the cash-based Primary Education Stipend program. The study reviews similarities and differences among selected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862344
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Review of agricultural extension in India: Are farmers' information needs being met?
Glendenning, Claire J.; Babu, Suresh; Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010
Despite a wide range of reform initiatives in agricultural extension in India in the past decades, the coverage of, access to, and quality of information provided to marginalized and poor farmers is uneven. This paper aims to ascertain why farmers are not accessing information and where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862353
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The impact of Bolsa Família on schooling: Girls’ advantage increases and older children gain:
de Brauw, Alan; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Hoddinott, John F.; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
We estimate the impact of Bolsa Família on a range of education outcomes, including school participation, grade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132647
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Why women are progressive in education?: Gender disparities in human capital, labor markets, and family arrangement in the Philippines
Yamauchi, Futoshi; Tiongco, Marites - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
This paper shows mutually consistent evidence to support female advantage in education and disadvantage in labor … level of schooling investments in daughters. Because wage penalty to females in labor markets means that education is … relatively important as a determinant of their earnings, parental investments in their daughters’ education has larger impacts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132714