Children's Advancement Through School in Brazil: the Role of Transitory Shocks to Household Income
- 1 January 1998
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper investigates the effects of short-run economic shocks on children`s progress through school in urban Brazil using a unique panel data set. The severeKeywords
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