Browsing by Author "Ferreira, Francisco H. G."
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Aggregate Economic Shocks, Child Schooling and Child Health
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Schady, Norbert (The World Bank, 2008-08)Do aggregate economic shocks, such as those caused by macroeconomic crises or droughts, reduce child human capital? The answer to this question has important implications for public policy. If shocks reduce investments in ... -
Conditional Cash Transfers, Schooling, and Child Labor : Micro-Simulating Brazil’s Bolsa Escola Programar
Bourguignon, François; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Leite, Phillippe G. (The World Bank, 2003)A growing number of developing economies are providing cash transfers to poor people that require certain behaviors on their part, such as attending school or regularly visiting health care facilities. A simple ex ante ... -
The Measurement of Educational Inequality : Achievement and Opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie (Institute for the Study of Labor, 2011-11)This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its ...