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    Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso (2010)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (35 p)
    Edition: 2010 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Kazianga, Harounan Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso
    Abstract: Using data they collected in rural Burkina Faso, the authors examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. This paper uses a direct measure of child ability for all primary school-aged children, regardless of current school enrollment. The analysis explicitly incorporates direct measures of the ability of each child’s siblings (both absolute and relative measures) to show how sibling rivalry exerts an impact on the parents’ decision of whether and how much to invest in their child’s education. The findings indicate that children with one standard deviation higher own ability are 16 percent more likely to be currently enrolled, while having a higher ability sibling lowers current enrollment by 16 percent and having two higher ability siblings lowers enrollment by 30 percent. The results are robust to addressing the potential reverse causality of schooling influencing child ability measures and using alternative cognitive tests to measure ability
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5370
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    Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms : Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso (2012)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (30 p)
    Edition: 2012 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Akresh, Richard Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms
    Abstract: The authors conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of two alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or unconditional, and the money was given to either mothers or fathers. Families enrolled in the conditional cash transfer schemes were required to obtain quarterly child-growth monitoring at local health clinics for all children under five years old. There was not such a requirement under the unconditional programs. Compared with control group households, conditional cash transfers significantly increased the number of preventative health care visits during the previous year, while unconditional cash transfers did not have such an impact. For the conditional cash transfers, money given to mothers or fathers showed beneficial impacts of similar magnitude in increasing routine visits
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5958
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    Armed Conflict And Schooling : Evidence From The 1994 Rwandan Genocide (2008)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (38 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Akresh, Richard Armed Conflict And Schooling
    Keywords: Armed Conflict ; Civil war ; Conflict and Development ; Education ; Education for All ; Genocide ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Household surveys ; Human Development ; Policy ReseaRch ; Policy ReseaRch WoRking PaPeR ; Population Policies ; Post Conflict Reconstruction ; Primary Education ; Progress ; Public Services ; War ; Youth and Government ; Armed Conflict ; Civil war ; Conflict and Development ; Education ; Education for All ; Genocide ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Household surveys ; Human Development ; Policy ReseaRch ; Policy ReseaRch WoRking PaPeR ; Population Policies ; Post Conflict Reconstruction ; Primary Education ; Progress ; Public Services ; War ; Youth and Government ; Armed Conflict ; Civil war ; Conflict and Development ; Education ; Education for All ; Genocide ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Household surveys ; Human Development ; Policy ReseaRch ; Policy ReseaRch WoRking PaPeR ; Population Policies ; Post Conflict Reconstruction ; Primary Education ; Progress ; Public Services ; War ; Youth and Government
    Abstract: To examine the impact of Rwanda's 1994 genocide on children's schooling, the authors combine two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age group's baseline schooling and exploits variation across provinces in the intensity of killings and which children's cohorts were school-aged when exposed to the war. The findings show a strong negative impact of the genocide on schooling, with exposed children completing one-half year less education representing an 18.3 percent decline. The effect is robust to including control variables, alternative sources for genocide intensity, and an instrumental variables strategy
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    Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability (2012)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (43 p)
    Edition: 2012 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Akresh, Richard Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability
    Abstract: Using data collected in rural Burkina Faso, this paper examines how children's cognitive abilities influence households' decisions to invest in their education. To address the endogeneity of child ability measures, the analysis uses rainfall shocks experienced in utero or early childhood to instrument for ability. Negative shocks in utero lead to 0.24 standard deviations lower ability z-scores, corresponding with a 38 percent enrollment drop and a 49 percent increase in child labor hours compared with their siblings. Negative education impacts are largest for in utero shocks, diminished for shocks before age two, and have no impact for shocks after age two. The paper links the fetal origins hypothesis and sibling rivalry literatures by showing that shocks experienced in utero not only have direct negative impacts on the child's cognitive ability (fetal origins hypothesis), but also negatively impact the child through the effects on sibling rivalry resulting from the cognitive differences
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5965
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    Cash Transfers and Child Schooling : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Role of Conditionality (2013)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (57 p)
    Edition: 2013 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Akresh, Richard Cash Transfers and Child Schooling
    Abstract: The authors conduct a randomized experiment in rural Burkina Faso to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on education. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or unconditional. Families under the conditional schemes were required to have their children ages 7-15 enrolled in school and attending classes regularly. There were no such requirements under the unconditional programs. The results indicate that unconditional and conditional cash transfer programs have a similar impact increasing the enrollment of children who are traditionally favored by parents for school participation, including boys, older children, and higher ability children. However, the conditional transfers are significantly more effective than the unconditional transfers in improving the enrollment of "marginal children" who are initially less likely to go to school, such as girls, younger children, and lower ability children. Thus, conditionality plays a critical role in benefiting children who are less likely to receive investments from their parents
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6340
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    Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Household Welfare Impacts of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers Given to Mothers or Fathers (2016)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (49 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Akresh, Richard Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Household Welfare Impacts of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers Given to Mothers or Fathesr
    Abstract: This study conducted a randomized control trial in rural Burkina Faso to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on education, health, and household welfare outcomes. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or unconditional and were given to either mothers or fathers. Conditionality was linked to older children enrolling in school and attending regularly and younger children receiving preventive health check-ups. Compared with the control group, cash transfers improve children's education and health and household socioeconomic conditions. For school enrollment and most child health outcomes, conditional cash transfers outperform unconditional cash transfers. Giving cash to mothers does not lead to significantly better child health or education outcomes, and there is evidence that money given to fathers improves young children's health, particularly during years of poor rainfall. Cash transfers to fathers also yield relatively more household investment in livestock, cash crops, and improved housing
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7730
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