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Women's Schooling, Home Teaching, and Economic Growth
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The hypothesis that increases in the schooling of women enhance the human capital of the next generation and thus make a unique contribution to economic growth is assessed on the basis of data describing green revolution India as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
The hypothesis that increases in the schooling of women enhance the human capital of the next generation and thus make a unique contribution to economic growth is assessed on the basis of data describing green revolution India. Estimates are obtained that indicate that a component of the significant and positive relationship between maternal literacy and child schooling in the Indian setting reflects the productivity effect of home teaching and that the existence of this effect, combined with the increase in returns to schooling for men, importantly underlies the expansion of female literary following the onset of the green revolution.read more
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The culture of "silent sexuality" amongst the Shambala of Tanzania : towards an intercultural approach in the pastoral ministry
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What Determines Women's Labor Supply? The Role of Home Productivity and Social Norms
TL;DR: In this article, the role of home productivity in explaining the gender gap in labor force participation (LFP), and the non-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United Kingdom, U.S., and Australia).
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Gendering Technological Change: Evidence from Agricultural Mechanization
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that mechanization has led to a significantly greater decline in women's than men's labor in primary tilling on Indian farms and highlighted the gendered impact of technological change in contexts where there is a sex-specific specialization of labor.
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Revealed beliefs and the marriage market return to education
Alison Andrew,Abigail Adams +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters' schooling and marriage and found that parents' choices are partially driven by their beliefs about the likelihood of receiving high-quality marriage offers in the future and how this likelihood depends on a daughter's age and education.
Does Mother’s Schooling Matter Most in Rural Bangladesh? Re-contextualizing an Old Debate in a New Era of School Reform
TL;DR: This paper explored the dynamic interplay between parental wealth, parental schooling, government schooling initiatives and child schooling outcomes in rural Bangladesh and found that mother's schooling and to some extent father's schooling are important predictors of offspring attainment.
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Returns to investment in education: A global update
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss methodological issues surrounding those estimates and confirm that primary education continues to be the number one investment priority in developing countries, and also show that educating females is marginally more profitable than educating males, and that the academic secondary school curriculum is a better investment than the technical/vocational tract.
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Cultural transmission and evolution: a quantitative approach
TL;DR: A mathematical theory of the non-genetic transmission of cultural traits is developed that provides a framework for future investigations in quantitative social and anthropological science and concludes that cultural transmission is an essential factor in the study of cultural change.
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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.
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The Determinants of Children's Attainments: A Review of Methods and Findings
Robert Haveman,Barbara Wolfe +1 more
TL;DR: The authors review and critique the empirical literature on the links between investments in children and children's attainments, including educational attainment, fertility choices, and work-related outcomes such as earnings and welfare recipiency.
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Learning by Doing and Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture
TL;DR: This article used household-level panel data from a nationally representative sample of rural Indian households describing the adoption and profitability of high-yielding seed varieties associated with the Green Revolution to test the implications of a model incorporating learning by doing and learning spillovers.