matter of concern in the region. We study this issue for Uganda, investigating whether the migration of household members … affects child primary education and in what direction. Using the Uganda National Panel Survey for 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2011 … migration of children has a significant positive impact on child school attendance rates while that of adults has a …

support the National Program of Action for Children. The NECDP covered about 8,000 communities in 20 of Uganda's 39 districts … malnutrition among preschool children, raise primary school enrollment, reduce dropout and repetition rates, improve psycho …

the Uganda National Panel Survey, results from a household fixed effects analysis show that children under two years of … very little in preventive healthcare. This paper investigates how the households trade off investment in their children … examine the shocks’ effects on the intake of Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS) by children. With four waves of panel data from …

by almost 10%. These results have important policy implications for improving children’s schooling in Uganda … children to school or withdraw them, in order to provide shock-coping support in the household. We use high-resolution spatial … rainfall data matched with geo-referenced Uganda National Panel Survey data to estimate the effect of negative rainfall shocks …

compare mothers' and fathers' willingness to pay (WTP) for specific goods for their children, diverging from the previous … Uganda, allows us to estimate gender differences and explore mechanisms with greater precision. A second innovation is that … children. We find that fathers have a lower WTP for their daughters' human capital than their sons' human capital, whereas …