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preferential access to a conditional cash transfer programme designed to facilitate investments in children's health and education … children, but is positive and significant for women without children. The effects on both education and labour income are …
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Randomized field experiments designed to better understand the production of human capital have increased exponentially over the past several decades. This chapter summarizes what we have learned about various partial derivatives of the human capital production function, what important partial...
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I exploit the staggered roll-out of a universal early childhood development program in Chile to assess the impact of a comprehensive approach to early childhood development on outcomes in middle childhood. Using variation across time and municipalities, I study outcomes such as school...
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pronounced for girls and socioeconomically vulnerable children. Impacts on several other child development outcomes also differ …
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I exploit the staggered roll-out of a universal early childhood development program in Chile to assess the impact of a comprehensive approach to early childhood development on outcomes in middle childhood. Using variation across time and municipalities, I study outcomes such as school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013205176
pronounced for girls and socioeconomically vulnerable children. Impacts on several other child development outcomes also differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462647
, which results in families of otherwise similar children receiving substantially different refunds during the first year of … first child leads to persistent increases in family income that likely contribute to the downstream effects on children …
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This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We … and female refugee children. Being a beneficiary household reduces the fraction of children working from 14.0 percent to 1 ….6 percent (a decrease of 88 percent) and the fraction of children aged 6-17 not in school from 36.2 to 13.7 percent (a reduction …
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This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We … and female refugee children. Being a beneficiary household reduces the fraction of children working from 14.0 percent to 1 ….6 percent (a decrease of 88 percent) and the fraction of children aged 6-17 not in school from 36.2 to 13.7 percent (a reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584050
children. Children who were enrolled in the CSG at birth completed 0.14 more grades of schooling than children who were … compensatory role in narrowing the grade attainment gap between children whose mothers have not completed primary school and … mothers with at least some secondary education. This occurs because early receipt of CSG reduces the likelihood that children …
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