This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school … enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school …, strongly suggests that the channel through which departure affects children is through reducing income. It also highlights the …

Using data collected in rural Burkina Faso, this paper examines how children's cognitive abilities influence households …

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

This study measures the impact of a flood in 2010 in Benin on children’s schooling and labor. The data used are the … significantly increased. Despite the removal of school fees in 2006, the households still withdrew their children from school after …

protection policies. The impact of macroeconomic crises on parents' investments in the human capital of their children is a … and 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 …