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Gender Differences in Early Child Development: Evidence from Large-Scale Studies of Very Young Children in Nine Countries
Some evidence suggests that there are significant gender gaps in early child development in low- and middle-income countries, with girls generally...
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Ensuring Quality Education: Holistic Child Development and the New Education Policy
The chapter evaluates India’s progress in providing quality education to her children. Progress in education related indicators is assessed in...
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Less for more? Cuts to child benefits, family adjustments, and long-run child outcomes in larger families
Previous studies have examined how cash transfers affect children’s education and health regardless of sibship size. I examine the long-run...
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Child Well-Being and SDG Status of Indian States
Monitoring progress toward the SDG targets and understanding present status in relation to the well-being of children are crucial. This...
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Parental inputs and socio-economic gaps in early child development
Around 1 in 5 individuals in OECD countries leave school without basic qualifications, impacting their own later life outcomes and those of their...
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Child Poverty and Deprivation
Understanding child poverty is crucial as it directly impacts the well-being and future prospects of a society. Addressing this issue is essential as...
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Child labour and schooling in Tanzania
In this paper, I examine child labour and schooling in Tanzania. I use Tanzania Labour Force Survey data containing detailed information on children...
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Financial inclusion and multidimensional child poverty
Despite the concerted efforts being made at the global, regional, and national levels to reduce child poverty, children in resource-poor countries...
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Cliometrics of Child Health
Economics has revealed that child health is one of the most important factors in the formation of human capital. Cliometrics on child health has...
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Child Labor and Economic Development
Two hundred and eighteen million children work in the world today. Seventy percent are in activities classified as child labor under local laws....
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Communication Problems Between Parent–Child
This article explores differences in parent and child growth environments, communication needs, and points of mutual exclusivity when opposing views....
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Maternal education and child survival: causal evidence from Kenya
This study leverages the educational reform of 1985 as a source of exogenous variation in female education, providing insights into the effect of...
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Borrower discouragement and multidimensional child deprivation in Ghana
With increasing scholarly attention on child deprivation to understand its drivers and potential policies needed for its alleviation, the...
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Impact of terrorism on child sex at birth: evidence from Pakistan
Using insights from the literature on psychology and medicine, we examine the impact of stress induced by terrorism on child sex at birth. The...
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Mothers and fathers: education, co-residence, and child health
This paper evaluates the causal effects of mother’s and father’s education on child-health outcomes in Zimbabwe, exploiting the exogenous variation...
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Map** Sustainable Development Goals for Children in India Progress and Present Challenges
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of child well-being within the context of Indian states, focusing on the progress made in eight...
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Household impacts of child health shocks
Women bear a disproportionate share of the unpaid labor within a household, which contributes to gender gaps in life and relationship satisfaction....
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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing, and would it be efficient?
Existing literature shows that a ban on child labour may be self-enforcing under the extreme assumption that, above the subsistence level, no amount...
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Child development and distance learning in the age of COVID-19
School closures, forcibly brought about by the COVID-19 crisis in many countries, have impacted children’s lives and their learning processes. The...
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Child Abuse and Neglect
Child maltreatment is a prevalent and costly problem. Millions of children worldwide experience some form of parental maltreatment, and it has...