's time between domestic activities and school attendance. Households affected by an unanticipated rainfall shock face an … inter-temporal trade-off between current household income and future potential earnings. Financial inclusion may mitigate or … exacerbate the human capital impacts of rainfall shocks depending on whether it relaxes or constrains household budgets. The data …

comprehensive retrospective information on households’ historic experience with weather shocks. Exposure to the weather shock … climate data as well as household-level livestock losses. Exposure to weather shocks during preschool age (as opposed to …This paper analyzes the short- and long-term impact of extreme weather events on educational outcomes in Mongolia. Our …

This paper investigates the impact of a government cash transfer on household decisions regarding different activities … behavioral change caused by the program was a reduction in the probability that the household would send the child to work and an … increase in the likelihood that a household would choose to combine child labor with schooling. On the other hand, the transfer …

decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access …'s treatment. -- son preference ; child labor ; housework ; India ; National Family Health Survey …

states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …