Canals-Cerd?? and Ridao-Cano investigate the effect of work on the school progress of rural Bangladeshi children. They … effect on school progress and are able to measure this effect for different groups of children. Their results highlight the … these policies by efforts to improve the adverse environment that working children face. The authors evaluate the dynamic …

will have lower returns if children do not have adequate levels of cognitive and social skills at an early age. This paper …-school age children, who are also more likely to be delayed. The program increased intake of nutrient-rich foods, early …

. Extreme poverty is another factor lowering school attendance, as children who have suffered hunger at some point in their …

region of Northwestern Tanzania. The paper studies a sample of 718 non-orphaned children surveyed in 1991-94, who were traced … children whose mother survived till at least their 15th birthday. …