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This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants....
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Despite the attractiveness of experiments from the perspective of program evaluation, there have been very few program experiments in the area of family planning. This paper evaluates an ongoing family planning program experiment in rural Bangladesh. The paper estimates the effect of mothers'...
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In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects associated with the lower birthweight and...
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This paper evaluates how the Progresa Program, which provides poor mothers in rural Mexico with education grants, has … estimates of program short-run effects on enrollment are extrapolated to the lifetime schooling and the earnings of adults to …
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recent period. This paper provides estimates of the returns to education in India by gender, age cohort and location (by …-94 using a large national level household survey data. The data show that the returns to education increases up to the … schooling. The returns to women's education for the primary and middle levels have declined while those for secondary and …
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's education than father's. More educated women work more hours in the market labor force, broadening the tax base and thereby … expenditures toward women's education. …
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at community level) implies substantially larger impacts of the voucher system. The effect of parents' education on …
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This study investigates the determinants of school attainments of boys and girls in Turkey. Although high levels of enrollements have been achieved at the primary school level for both boys and girls in much of Turkey, substantial regional differences remain. In particular, in the Southeastern...
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Despite the fact that the quality of education for Africans in South Africa was lower than that for whites, in 1993 the … percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education were substantially higher for … Africans than for whites. These rates increased at higher levels of education for both race groups. …
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