Reforms of primary education undertaken in Madhya Pradesh since the mid-1990’s have been said to be bringing the state close to universal enrolment, yet they have sparked much controversy and have hardly been the subject of any independent research. This paper presents the results of a field...

L’objet de cet article consiste à évaluer empiriquement l’impact de l’éducation publique ou privée sur la durée de chômage qui précède le premier emploi. Notre étude porte sur un pays en développement, Madagascar qui, comme beaucoup d’autres, connaît un essor considérable de...

This paper presents a survey of the large empirical literature in economics that has sought to examine the relationship between educational expenditures and outcomes in both developed and developing countries. The main feature of this literature is the remarkable lack of consensus about the...

This paper examines how adverse shocks experienced by households, such as natural disasters, crop or job losses, or deaths, influence the acquisition of human capital of children, in the long run, and investigates whether some periods of childhood appear to be more critical in the sense that...

Young people in Africa are confronted with many difficulties when it comes to their integration in the labour markets and their research for decent and productive jobs. Research on the links between formal education and vocational training and their economic returns are especially crucial in...

Economic theory often assumes that the opportunity costs of having a child and financial constraints have a simultaneous but opposite influence on fertility. This empirical paper aims to test the concomitance of these effects using the answers to an original survey carried out in 2003 amongst...

This paper focuses on child renunciations factors, investigating the answers of nearly 1000 employees to a 2003 IPSOS-Chronopost survey. Numerous variables are taken into account simultaneously, evaluating their “caeteris paribus” influence through logistic models estimations. In a nutshell,...

This article examines the quality of ex ante assessments of the effects of conditional cash-transfer programs on child time allocation in developing countries. We use data from a social experiment conducted to evaluate the Mexican program Progresa. We compare the results of (1) ex ante...

Victims of the long crisis that has affected their countries, the youth of three African capitals (Dakar, Yaoundé, and Antananarivo) find themselves forced to postpone their entry into adult life. They postpone not only obtaining their first paid employment but also moving into their first home...

This paper uses data from recent Senegalese Demographic and Health Surveys to explore the link between female empowerment and child mortality via early marriage, defined as marriage before age 16. There exist three channels through which early marriage reduces a mother's ability to take good...