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Impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement: Evidence from IndiaI study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian state of Rajasthan...
Children Education EnrolmentWorking Paper
Impact of the right to education on school enrolment of children with disabilities: Evidence from IndiaI evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6–14 years, including children with disabilities...
People with disabilities Children EducationIn the media
Child labour during pandemic - UNU-WIDER expert interviewed for a Finnish development news portalUNU-WIDER Research Associate Milla Nyyssölä was interviewed for an article discussing the increase of child labour during corona pandemia. The article is published on a Finnish development news portal Maailma.net.
COVID-19 Child labour ChildrenWorking Paper
Orphans and stunted growth: Investigating the potential of spatial network effects in service delivery for reducing stunting in orphansStunted growth in early life has serious implications for children and is a well-established constraint to productivity, life expectancy, and cognitive development...
Children Vulnerability StuntingJournal Article
Multidimensional poverty of children in MozambiqueWe analyse the multidimensional wellbeing of children aged 0–17 in Mozambique and find that 46.3% can be considered multidimensionally poor. A substantial divide exists between urban and rural areas and between northern and southern provinces...
Multidimensional poverty Children Child wellbeingJournal Article
Improving maternal health care in a post-conflict setting: Evidence from Chittagon Hill tracts of BangladeshWe evaluate a development programme with an important maternal health care component in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh...
Children HealthcareJournal Article
Cash Transfers and Gender Differentials in Child Schooling and Labor: Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants ProgrammePart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Children Education LabourWorking Paper
Inequality of opportunity in child health in Sudan: Across-region studyThis study aims to examine the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years of age, using the Sudanese 2014 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey...
Health Children Inequality of opportunitiesWorking Paper
Multidimensional poverty of children in MozambiqueWe analyse the multidimensional wellbeing of children aged 0–17 in Mozambique and find that 46.3 per cent can be considered multidimensionally poor...
Multidimensional poverty Children Child wellbeingWorking Paper
Labour migration in Indonesia and the health of children left behindEconomic research on labour migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the remittances of overseas migrant labour in the sending country’s economy...
Health Labour migration ChildrenWorking Paper
Fragmenting the family?: The complexity of household migration strategies in post-apartheid South AfricaThe disruption of family life is one of the important legacies of South Africa’s colonial and apartheid history...
Children Family migration Mixed methodsWorking Paper
Policy diffusion, domestic politics and social assistance in Lesotho, 1998–2012Lesotho is a small Southern African country that has introduced two national cash transfer programmes, the Old Age Pension and the Child Grant Programme...
Lesotho policy diffusion Cash transfersWorking Paper
Gender differences in child investment behaviour among agricultural households: Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants ProgrammeWe examine the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer in Lesotho using an experimental impact evaluation design. We find that the cash transfer led to different outcomes for girls and boys, overall favouring secondary school-aged girls...
Children Education LabourJournal Article
Effects of food price shocks on child malnutrition: The Mozambican experience 2008/2009A propitiously timed household survey carried out in Mozambique over the period 2008/2009 permits us to study the relationship between shifts in food prices and child nutrition status in a low income setting...
Children Food industry and trade InflationJournal Article
Ordinal Bivariate Inequality: Concepts and Application to Child Deprivation in MozambiqueThis paper introduces a concept of inequality comparisons with ordinal bivariate categorical data...
Children Econometric models Equality and inequalityWorking Paper
Ethnic and racial disparities in children’s education: Comparative evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and VietnamWe investigate whether there are racial and ethnic disparities in children’s education in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam...
Children Education