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  "title": "Educational Choices and Educational Constraints: Evidence From Bolivia",
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  "summary": "Recent efforts at poverty alleviation emphasize increasing government spending on education. However, even if spending were perfectly targeted, it is not evident that spending by itself will lead to higher educational attainment.",
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      "heading": "Summary and research question",
      "content": "- Recent efforts at poverty alleviation emphasize increasing government spending on education.\n- The paper questions whether spending alone will lead to higher educational attainment, even if spending were perfectly targeted.\n- Bolivian household data is used to ascertain the probability of an individual quitting school due to financial or other reasons."
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      "heading": "Empirical approach and simulations",
      "content": "- The analysis uses Bolivian household data and a hazard-model-type approach to study quitting school (implied by keywords: \"hazard model\", \"quitting school\").\n- Simulations show that government cash transfers can help to improve educational attainment somewhat."
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      "heading": "Key findings and constraints",
      "content": "- Cash transfers improve educational attainment to some degree.\n- Nonmonetary limitations must also be addressed if educational attainment is to improve significantly.\n- Indigenous women have the lowest levels of education in the country and are highlighted as a group for whom nonmonetary constraints are particularly binding."
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      "heading": "Policy implications and recommendations",
      "content": "- Monetary policy tools (government cash transfers) can yield partial gains in educational attainment.\n- Complementary nonmonetary interventions are necessary to achieve substantial improvements, especially targeted at disadvantaged groups such as indigenous women."
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      "content": "- Author: Gabriela Inchauste\n- Date: February 1, 2000\n- Series: Working Paper No. 2000/042\n- Issue: 042\n- Volume: 2000\n- Pages: 33\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451846201.001\n- Stock No: WPIEA0422000\n- ISBN: 9781451846201\n- ISSN: 1018-5941\n- Subjects: Currencies, Education, Gender, Human capital, Labor, Money, National accounts, Personal income, Women\n- Keywords: Bolivia, cash transfer, cash transfers, Currencies, Education, education spending, educational institution, hazard model, high school, Human capital, Personal income, quitting school, rate of return, School enrollment, school supplies, Women, WP\n\nSource: \"Educational Choices and Educational Constraints: Evidence From Bolivia\" by Gabriela Inchauste, IMF Working Papers, February 1, 2000.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Educational Choices and Educational Contraints:  Evidence from Bolivia - WP/00/42\n  - Educational Choices and Educational Contraints:  Evidence from Bolivia - WP/00/42 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Educational Choices and Educational Contraints:  Evidence from Bolivia - WP/00/42 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/30/educational-choices-and-educational-constraints-evidence-from-bolivia-3483"
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    "Authors: Gabriela Inchauste",
    "Published: February 1, 2000",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451846201.001",
    "Recent efforts at poverty alleviation emphasize increasing government spending on education.",
    "The paper questions whether spending alone will lead to higher educational attainment, even if spending were perfectly targeted.",
    "Bolivian household data is used to ascertain the probability of an individual quitting school due to financial or other reasons.",
    "The analysis uses Bolivian household data and a hazard-model-type approach to study quitting school (implied by keywords: \"hazard model\", \"quitting school\").",
    "Simulations show that government cash transfers can help to improve educational attainment somewhat.",
    "Cash transfers improve educational attainment to some degree.",
    "Nonmonetary limitations must also be addressed if educational attainment is to improve significantly.",
    "Indigenous women have the lowest levels of education in the country and are highlighted as a group for whom nonmonetary constraints are particularly binding.",
    "Monetary policy tools (government cash transfers) can yield partial gains in educational attainment.",
    "Complementary nonmonetary interventions are necessary to achieve substantial improvements, especially targeted at disadvantaged groups such as indigenous women.",
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    "Date: February 1, 2000",
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    "Stock No: WPIEA0422000",
    "ISBN: 9781451846201",
    "ISSN: 1018-5941",
    "Subjects: Currencies, Education, Gender, Human capital, Labor, Money, National accounts, Personal income, Women",
    "Keywords: Bolivia, cash transfer, cash transfers, Currencies, Education, education spending, educational institution, hazard model, high school, Human capital, Personal income, quitting school, rate of return, School enrollment, school supplies, Women, WP",
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