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Schooling and Labor Market Impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto ProgramPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Bolivia Child labour Conditional cash transfersWorking Paper
Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia’s Bono Juancito PintoIn 2006, the Bolivian government introduced a large-scale cash transfer programme, Bono Juancito Pinto (BJP). Exploiting the exogenous variation of the programme expansion, this paper examines the impact of BJP on schooling and child labour...
Bolivia Child labour Conditional cash transfersWorking Paper
Entrepreneurship and human capital development in childrenThis paper explores the link between entrepreneurship and child human capital development. We specifically examine how operating a non-farm enterprise (NFE) as opposed to working in agriculture relates to child labour and schooling outcomes...
non-farm Enterprises Child labourWorking Paper
Female say on income and child outcomes: Evidence from NigeriaThis paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female bargaining power is proxied by female say on labor income, rather than by female income per se...
Child education Child labour Female bargaining powerProject
Gender and food securityTheme: 2006-07
UNU-WIDER’s recent project ‘Hunger and Food Security’ exerted a strong attraction for academia, international organizations (FAO, WFP, and UNCTAD), civil society organizations, and the media. The first project meeting, held in...
Poverty Inequality and Well-being Hunger