capital of their children. We provide new evidence on the long-term (10-year) effects of cash transfers using data from … Ecuador. Our analysis is based on two separate sources of data and two identification strategies. First, we extend the results … from an experiment that randomly assigned children under the age of 6 years to "early" or "late" treatment groups. Although …

adults and children. Using microdata from 33 African countries, this paper documents the co-evolution of adult education … education. Rising women's education predicts declining fertility and rising children's grade attainment, but it is less …Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits higher fertility and lower education than other world regions. Economic and demographic …

We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are … remittances …

Although the impact of education on health is important for economic policy in developing countries, the overwhelming … majority of research to identify the health returns to education has been done using data from developed countries. We use data … education reform that increased the mandatory years of schooling from 5 to 8 years in 1997. Using exposure to the reform as an …

investments in children, starting from encouraging pre-natal and maternal care and early childhood health interventions and … children age 7-15 who are not enrolled in school. Wage labor for 13-15 year olds was reduced by at least one-third. We also …

In this paper we examine how an education policy intervention - the introduction of a comprehensive school in Sweden …, child ability and long-term adult outcomes. We show that extra education results in significant gains in skills among … children, but the effects on long-term health are overall negligible. However, we demonstrate that the schooling reform had …

outcomes, including employment, education, and household inequality. We develop a stylized general equilibrium model of child … for older children aged 14--17. Child labor bans in RTAs perversely increase child employment among 14--17 year olds and … decrease school enrollment for both young and older children. These effects appear to decrease inter-household income …

.005), receptive language (0.26 SD p=0.03) and expressive language (0.21 SD p=0.03). After 4.5 years, when the children were on average …

relationship between income and child development in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Treated mothers and children experienced large …