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Education in a crisis
Duncan Thomas,Kathleen Beegle,Elizabeth Frankenberg,Bondan Sikoki,John Strauss,Graciela Teruel +5 more
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In this article, the authors examined the effect of the 1998 economic and financial crisis in Indonesia on education of the next generation and found that on average, household spending on education declined, most dramatically among the poorest households, while there was a tendency to protect education spending in poor households with more older children.About:
This article is published in Journal of Development Economics.The article was published on 2004-06-01. It has received 260 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Financial crisis.read more
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Income Risk, Coping Strategies, and Safety Nets
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature on poor households' use of risk management and risk-coping strategies is presented, which identifies the constraints on their effectiveness and discusses policy options.
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Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall
Sharon L. Maccini,Dean Yang +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of weather shocks around the time of birth on the adult health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian women and men born between 1953 and 1974.
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What Caused the Asian Currency and Financial Crisis? Part I: A Macroeconomic Overview
TL;DR: The authors explores the view that the Asian currency and financial crises in 1997 and 1998 reflected structural and policy distortions in the countries of the region, even if market overreaction and herding caused the plunge of exchange rates, asset prices, and economic activity to be more severe than warranted by the initial weak economic conditions.
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The effect of armed conflict on accumulation of schooling: Results from Tajikistan
TL;DR: The authors used differences in regional and temporal exposure to the 1992-1998 armed conflict in Tajikistan to study the effect of violent conflict on schooling outcomes and found that exposure to violent conflict had a large and statistically significant negative effect on the enrollment of girls.
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Sri Lanka - Can conditional cash transfer programs serve as safety nets in keeping children at school and from working when exposed to shocks?
TL;DR: In this paper, the results of a gender impact evaluation study, Can Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs serve as safety nets in keeping children at school and from working when exposed to shocks? conducted in 1997 and still exists today in Sri Lanka.
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Risk and Insurance In Village India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested the full insurance model using data from three poor, high risk villages in the semi-arid tropics of southern India and found that household consumptions are not much influenced by contemporaneous own income, sickness, unemployment, or other idiosyncratic shocks.
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Credit Market Constraints, Consumption Smoothing and the Accumulation of Durable Production Assets in Low-Income Countries: Investments in Bullocks in India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors formulate and estimate a finite-horizon, structural dynamic model of agricultural investment behavior that incorporates the major features of low-income agricultural environments: income uncertainty, constraints on borrowing and rental markets, and the use of investment assets to generate income and smooth consumption.
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What Caused the Asian Currency and Financial Crisis
TL;DR: This article explored the view that the Asian currency and financial crises in 1997 and 1998 reflected structural and policy distortions in the countries of the region, even if market overreaction and herding caused the plunge of exchange rates, asset prices and economic activity to be more severe than warranted by the initial weak economic conditions.
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Risk and Insurance in a Rural Credit Market: An Empirical Investigation in Northern Nigeria
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed two models of state-contingent loans, one is a competitive equilibrium in perfectly enforceable contracts and the second permits imperfect information and equilibrium default.
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Does Saving Anticipate Declining Labor Income? An Alternative Test of the Permanent Income Hypothesis
TL;DR: This paper showed that saving should be at least as good a predictor of declines in labor income as any other for ecast that can be constructed from publicly available information, even when income is stationary in first differ ences rather than levels.