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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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transformation away from the agricultural sector, female education, and fertility rates. These facts are consistent with …
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productivity, consumption, inter-generational human capital accumulation and desired fertility. Lastly, there is no evidence that …
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In Turkey, female employment and education are still relatively low, while fertility levels are high compared with … finds that fertility decreases are mainly caused by fewer transitions to a third birth. Graduate women participating in the … European countries, emerge as useful to avoid a further fertility decline below replacement level in Turkey …
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conditional cash transfer experiment among teenage girls and young women in Malawi, which was designed to address these …. Policymakers looking to design cost-effective cash transfer programs targeted toward young women should note the relative …
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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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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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Conditional cash transfers are programs under which poor families get a stipend provided they keep their children in school and take them for health checks. Although there is significant evidence showing that they have positive impacts on school participation, little is known about the long-term...
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This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation … model finds that the removal of school fees led to an increase in schooling for Ethiopian women and that each additional … year of schooling led to a reduction in fertility. An investigation of the underlying mechanisms linking schooling and …
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context of a recently introduced fertility promotion benefit in Poland. The paper is based on an adapted version of the …
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