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Incentivizing school attendance in the presence of parent-child information frictions

De Walque, Damien; Valente, Christine - 2018

Education conditional cash transfer programs may increase school attendance in part due to the information they transmit to parents about their child's attendance. This paper presents experimental evidence that the information content of an education conditional cash transfer program, when given...

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Effects over the life of a program : evidence from an education conditional cash transfer program for girls

Chhabra, Esha; Najeeb, Fatima; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2019

While most evaluations of education programs in developing countries examine effects one or two years after a program has been introduced, this study does so over an extended duration of a program. Administered in Punjab, Pakistan, the program offers cash benefits to households conditional on...

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Does cash for school influence young women’s behavior in the longer term? : evidence from Pakistan

Alam, Andaleeb; Baez, Javier E.; Del Carpio, Ximena V. - 2011

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Taking power : women's empowerment and household well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa

Annan, Jeannie; Donald, Aletheia; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019

This paper examines women's power relative to that of their husbands in 23 Sub-Saharan African countries to determine … how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a … novel measure of women's empowerment that is closely linked to classical theories of power, built from spouses' often …

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