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

Beegle, Kathleen (contributor) - 2008

education, employment choices, and marital status over a 10-year horizon. Shocks to crop production and rainfall are used as … of farming and of marrying at a younger age. Strikingly, there are no significant effects on education for girls, but … with education being a lower priority for girls and/or with chores causing less disruption for education than agricultural …

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Compendium of International and National Legal Frameworks on Child Marriage

World Bank - 2023

Education Global Practice at the World Bank on the role of law to end child marriage. The discussions took place within the … and social costs of child marriage with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children Investment … Fund Foundation, as well as additional support from the Global Partnership for Education under a grant for work on out of …

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Welfare impacts of rural electrification : a case study from Bangladesh

Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2009

"Lack of access to electricity is one of the major impediments to growth and development of the rural economies in developing countries. That is why access to modern energy, in particular to electricity, has been one of the priority themes of the World Bank and other development organizations....

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Poverty and income seasonality in Bangladesh

Khandker, Shahidur R. - 2009

accompanied by better access to micro-credit, irrigation, education, electrification, social safety net programs, and dynamic …

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Poverty alleviation and child labor

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2008

, especially for girls. Increases in schooling are matched by an increase in education expenditures that appears to absorb most of …

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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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Sugar prices, labor income, and poverty in Brazil

Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2006

"This paper assesses the impact that a potential liberalization of sugar regimes in OECD countries could have on household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to 11 Brazilian states to capture the fact that some local...

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Household savings and residential mobility in informal settlements

Lall, Somik V. - 2005

"Strategies to help the one billion people worldwide who live in informal settlements have mainly focused on slum upgrading, sites and services programs, and tenure security. In contrast, there has been less attention on what enables slum dwellers to transition into the formal housing sector,...

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Reducing child malnutrition in Tanzania : combined effects of income growth and program interventions

Alderman, Harold - 2005

"Malnutrition is associated with an inadequate diet, poor health and sanitation services, and insufficient care for young children. A combination of income growth and nutrition interventions are therefore suggested to adequately tackle this issue, yet evidence to support this claim is often not...

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The impact of Chilean fruit sector development on female employment and household income

Jarvis, Lovell S. - 2004

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