agriculture. Using panel data on children in 2,181 rural households surveyed over the 2008-14 period, we examine how the welfare … of children has been impacted by structural transformation. Our analysis depicts a society that has made great progress …

work, household chores, and school related activities of Guatemalan children between 2000 and 2011. The paper also exploits … conditional on having stayed in school for time t. Results suggest that working children are two to four times more likely to drop … out of school or to have never enrolled than the rest of the children in the sample. The findings also reveal the …

cash transfer, in Lesotho. We show that the poorest households do not increase investment in children's human capital … cash transfers might not be always effective to support the investment in children's human capital of the poorest …

This article examines the effects of fostering on children's labour supply and schooling in host families in Niger. The … three outcomes for children (school attendance, hours of market work and hours of domestic work) and a treatment variable … (fostering). The results show that foster children are more likely to attend school and to have longer hours of domestic work …