children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … transfers to younger children has different poverty reduction effects between countries - depending on age composition and co … from state social protection systems compared to other agegroups. The results show that children are disproportionately …

growth in the 2000s along with a reduction in rural consumption poverty. This paper evaluates the extent to which recent …

We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country … Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which they had received for seven years, their young children weigh less …, and are shorter and more likely to be stunted than young children in families that kept the cash transfer. We find no …

This paper studies the effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction (HEPR) program on school … treatment (at age 8) increases children enrolment by about 9 percent. This positive effect disappears by age 15, and is more … pronounced in urban areas. In sharp contrast, children receiving treatment later (age 12–15) are more likely to drop out by age …