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  Climate Variability, Child Labour and Schooling: Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margin

  Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, 2013

  Using a unique panel dataset this paper examines the effect of changes in climate variability on the allocation of time among child labour activities (the intensive margin) as well as participation in education and labour activities (the extensive margin). It explores the question: How does future income uncertainty affect child labour and human capital accumulation?
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  Who benefits most from rural electrification ? Evidence in India

  World Bank, 2012

  This paper is a product of the World Bank Agriculture and Rural Development Team, Development Research Group. With a focus on rural India, it analyses the impact of electrification on a range of households and aims to determine who benefits most from rural electrification.
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  Peru’s ProJoven Training Programme

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013

  Peru’s ProJoven programme has successfully supported younger and more economically disadvantaged generations to gain the necessary qualifications to secure better quality jobs.
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  Low-cost private schools: evidence, approaches and emerging issues

  Economic and Private Sector PEAKS, 2013

  Over the past five years, a polarised debate about the potential contribution of low-cost private schools (LCPSs) to achieving Education for All (EFA) objectives has received growing coverage in international policy circles.
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  Teaching quality counts: how student outcomes relate to quality of teaching in private and public schools in India

  Young Lives, 2012

  Using school-, community- and household-level data from the Young Lives longitudinal study in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India, this paper makes a detailed comparison of 227 government and private schools attended by the children in the sample.
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  Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries

  The Lancet, 2011

  This report is the second in a Series on early child development in low-income and middle-income countries and assesses the effectiveness of early child development interventions, such as parenting support and preschool enrolment.
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  Quality education for all children?: What works in education in developing countries

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013

  This working paper is a systematic investigation into schooling outcomes and analyses evidence from 75 studies across a range of school interventions. The report looks at a range of school interventions and provides evidence of the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers on school enrolment and attendance.
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  Economic class and labour market inclusion: poor and middle class workers in developing Asia and the Pacific

  International Labour Organization, 2013

  Using an absolute definition of poverty and the middle class, this paper provides some important insights into the profiles of the poor, near poor and middle class workforce in developing Asia and the Pacific, with a special focus on Cambodia, India, Indonesia and Viet Nam. Observations and recommendations:
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  Evidence Matters: Quality education for all children? What works, what doesn’t work, and why: a briefing for decision-makers

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2013

  What is most effective in getting children into school, keeping them there and ensuring that they learn? This policy brief is based on "Quality education for all children? What works in education in developing countries", which analyses evidence on schooling outcomes from 75 studies of a range of school interventions.
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  Displacement and education of the next generation: evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Households in Conflict Network, 2013

  This paper studies how the displacement of parents during a violent conflict affects investment in their children’s ' education years later. Using ethnic division during the Bosnian War as a natural experiment, the author claims to identify exogenously displaced households and compare them to households who did not have to move because of the war.

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