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Instead of mean-tested conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, some countries have implemented gender-targeted CCTs to explicitly address intra-household disparities in human capital investments. This study focuses on addressing the direct impact of a female school stipend program in Punjab,...
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In large parts of the world, a lack of home tap water burdens households as the water must be brought to the house from outside, at great expense in terms of effort and time. This paper studies how such costs affect girls' schooling in Ghana, with an analysis based on four rounds of the...
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This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from a household affects children's school enrollment and work participation in rural Colombia. The results indicate that the permanent departure of the father decreases children's school enrollment by approximately 5 percentage...
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The authors conduct a randomized experiment in rural Burkina Faso to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on education. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or unconditional. Families under the conditional...
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A growing number of developing countries have introduced conditional cash transfer programs that provide money to poor families with certain contingencies attached - such as requiring school attendance or regular immunization and health check-ups. As the popularity of conditional cash transfer...
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are limited nationally representative insights on men and women landowners' rights over land. Variations in institutions … nationally representative, intrahousehold survey data elicited in private from men and women on their ownership of assets, this … new insights. Landowners, particularly women, often do not have full rights and decision-making power over land. Multiple …
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How cash transfers made to women are used has important implications for models of household behavior and for the … poor women in rural Ecuador to analyze the effect of transfers on the food Engel curve. There are two main findings. First … among households that only have adult females. Bargaining power between men and women is likely to be important in mixed …
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schools built suggests that education benefits for men and women persist 43 years after the program. Exposed men are more … likely to be formal workers, work outside agriculture, and migrate. Men and women who were exposed to the program have better … marriage market outcomes with spouses that are more educated, and households with exposed women have improved living standards …
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derived from migration increases girls' education and reduces women's labor supply, with no major impact on activity choice …
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The authors use panel data for Mexico for 1997 to 1999 to test several assumptions regarding the impact of a conditional cash transfer program on child labor, emphasizing the differential impact on indigenous households. Using data from the conditional cash transfer program in Mexico PROGRESA...
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