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. …

Educated parents tend to have educated children. But is intergenerational transmission of human capital more nature …, more nurture, or both? The author uses household survey data from Rwanda that contains a large proportion of children … influences. The nonrandom placement of children is controlled by including the educational attainment of the absent biological …

The impact of macroeconomic crises on parents' investments in the human capital of their children is a widely contested … employment decisions made by urban school-age children. He arrives at two basic findings: First, the crisis had no effect on the … attendance rates of school-age children. But the share of children who were both employed and in school fell significantly during …

Civil war, and genocide in particular, are among the most destructive of social phenomena, especially for children of … compare children in the same age group who were and were not exposed to the genocide - and their educational outcomes are … substantially different. Children exposed to the genocide experienced a drop in educational achievement of almost one-half year of …