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Costed Plan for Scaling Up Nutrition: Nigeria

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2014

This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...

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Leveling the intra-household playing field : compensation and specialization in child labor allocation

V. Del Carpio, Ximena - 2009

"This paper analyzes changes in the allocation of child labor within the household in reaction to exogenous shocks created by a social program in Nicaragua. The paper shows that households that randomly received a conditional cash transfer compensated for some of the intra-household differences,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394116

Wealth : crucial but not sufficient evidence from Pakistan on economic growth, child labor, and schooling

Hou, Xiaohui - 2009

-series, cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between wealth and child labor and schooling. The paper finds that wealth …

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Poverty alleviation and child labor

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2008

transitioning from schooling to work. The paper finds support for this hypothesis. Cash transfers have small effects on child time …, especially for girls. Increases in schooling are matched by an increase in education expenditures that appears to absorb most of …

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A positive stigma for child labor?

Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2008

"The authors introduce a simple empirical model that assumes a positive stigma (or norm) toward child labor that is common in some developing countries. They illustrate the positive stigma model using data from Guatemala. Controlling for several child and household-level characteristics, the...

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Does child labor always decrease with income? : an evaluation in the context of a development program in Nicaragua

Del Carpio, Ximena V. - 2008

"This paper investigates the relationship of household income with child labor. The analysis uses a rich dataset obtained in the context of a conditional cash transfer program in a poor region of Nicaragua in 2005 and 2006. The program has a strong productive emphasis and seeks to diversify the...

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The consequences of child labor : evidence from longitudinal data in rural Tanzania

Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2008

labor leads 10 years later to a loss of approximately one year of schooling and to a substantial increase in the likelihood …

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Migration, school attainment, and child labor : evidence from rural Pakistan

Mansuri, Ghazala - 2006

investment in child schooling. A key challenge is to deal appropriately with selection into migration. She finds that the … any effect of future migration prospects on schooling decisions. More significantly, she does not find any protective … effect of migration-induced female headship on schooling outcomes for girls. Rather, female headship appears to protect boys …

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Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador

Schady, Norbert Rudiger - 2006

"The impact of cash transfer programs on the accumulation of human capital is a topic of great policy importance. An attendant question is whether program effects are larger when transfers are "conditioned" on certain behaviors, such as a requirement that households enroll their children in...

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Child labor, school attendance, and indigenous households : Evidence from Mexico

Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2005

"The authors use panel data for Mexico for 1997 to 1999 to test several assumptions regarding the impact of a conditional cash transfer program on child labor, emphasizing the differential impact on indigenous households. Using data from the conditional cash transfer program in Mexico--PROGRESA...

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