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Fertility, Child Work and Schooling Consequences of Family Planning Programs: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Bangladesh
Sinha, Nistha - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2003
. The paper estimates the effect of mothers' program exposure on fertility and children's time allocation. The results show … that while the program was effective in reducing fertility, it had no significant impact on children's school enrollment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357762
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Education Returns Across Quantiles of the Wage Function: Alternative Explanation for Returns to Education by Race in South Africa.
Schultz, T.P.; Mwabu, G. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005647045
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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia
Meghir, Costas; Attanasio, Orazio; Cattan, Sarah; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2015
We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169772
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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns
Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2003
A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357756
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School Subsidies for the Poor: Evaluating the Mexican Progresa Poverty Program
Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001
This paper evaluates how the Progresa Program, which provides poor mothers in rural Mexico with education grants, has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738382
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Female Household-Headship in Rural Bangladesh: Incidence, Determinants and Impact on Children's Schooling Shareen Joshi
Joshi, Shareen - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004
This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357716
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Do Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birthweight, and China's 'One Child' Policy
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2006
In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects associated with the lower birthweight and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738381
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A Two-Tiered Demographic System: "Insiders" and "Outsiders" in Three Swabian Communities, 1558-1914
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2013
-tiered demographic system. A group of “insiders” were able to marry, and experienced both high marital fertility and high infant and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877999
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Family Planning as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Program's Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2007
decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have … estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146682
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Testing for a Supply Constraint to Fertility: Interpreting the Up to God Response to the Survey Question on Desired Family Size
Sinha, Nistha - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004
The paper outlines a methodology that allows us to determine whether couples. fertility is supply constrained based on … UTG response, it can be concluded that fertility of many couples in Bangladesh was constrained by supply. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146684