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Schooling of girls and boys in a West African country: the effects of parental education, income, and household structure.
Peter Glick,David E. Sahn +1 more
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Findings show that education for girls is unnecessary since they only need to work at home and policies that raise household incomes will increase gender equity in schooling, which will also depend on whether and how these policies change the opportunity costs of girls and boys and the labor market returns to female and male schooling.About:
This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 2000-02-01. It has received 419 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Household income & Family life.read more
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A Treatise on the Family
TL;DR: A Treatise on the Family by G. S. Becker as discussed by the authors is one of the most famous and influential economists of the second half of the 20th century, a fervent contributor to and expounder of the University of Chicago free-market philosophy, and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in economics.
Determinants of Health and Education Outcomes Background Note for World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for Poor People
TL;DR: The World Development Report (WDR) 2004 warns that broad improvements in human welfare will not occur unless poor people receive wider access to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity as discussed by the authors.
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Making Services Work for Poor People
TL;DR: The authors examines the experience with alternative mechanisms for service delivery, contracting out to the private and NGO sectors, community participation, co-financing by service beneficiaries and shows that this, as well as the experience of more traditional public sector provision, can be interpreted by looking at three principal-agent relationships in the service-delivery chain: between policymakers and providers, between clients and providers; and between clients (as citizens) and policymakers.
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Can migration reduce educational attainment? Evidence from Mexico
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of migration on educational attainment in rural Mexico using historical migration rates by state to instrument for current migration, and found evidence of a significant negative effect on schooling attendance and attainment of 12 to 18 year-old boys and 16 to 18 age-old girls.
Energy services for the Millennium Development Goals.
Jeffrey D. Sachs,Douglas Barnes,Stephen Karekezi,Guido Schmidt-Traub,Gilberto Jannuzzi,Fatih Birol +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a rigorous understanding of the energy services that drive and, when absent, impede progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals in different parts of the world is presented, and a clear sense of the operational challenges faced by the world's poorest countries in providing these services is given.
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Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error
TL;DR: In this article, the bias that results from using non-randomly selected samples to estimate behavioral relationships as an ordinary specification error or "omitted variables" bias is discussed, and the asymptotic distribution of the estimator is derived.
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A Treatise on the Family
TL;DR: The Enlarged Edition as mentioned in this paper provides an overview of the evolution of the family and the state Bibliography Index. But it does not discuss the relationship between fertility and the division of labor in families.
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A Treatise on the Family
TL;DR: A Treatise on the Family by G. S. Becker as discussed by the authors is one of the most famous and influential economists of the second half of the 20th century, a fervent contributor to and expounder of the University of Chicago free-market philosophy, and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in economics.
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On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Gary S. Becker,H. Gregg Lewis +1 more
TL;DR: De Tray and Willis as discussed by the authors argued that the negative relation between quantity and quality often observed is a consequence of a low substitution elasticity in a family's utility function between parents' consumption or level of living and that of their children.
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Intra-household resource allocation: an inferential approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that unearned income in the hands of a mother has a bigger effect on her family's health than income under the control of a father; for child survival probabilities the effect is almost twenty times bigger.