Akresh, Richard; Bagby, Emilie; de Walque, Damien; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource …-aged children, regardless of current school enrollment. We explicitly incorporate direct measures of the ability of each child … and how much to invest in their child’s education. We find children with one standard deviation higher own ability are 16 …