Siblings, child labor, and schooling in Nicaragua and Guatemala

Abstract

Child labor, Siblings, Gender, J13, O15,

Are Daughters Always the Losers in the Chore War? Evidence Using Household Data from Vietnam

“…Diligent work implies better-performing houseworkers. Hence, our suggestion is similar to those reported earlier by Alvarez and Miles (2003), Dammert (2010) and Lin and Adserà (2013).…”

“…In subsequent work, Edmonds (2006) suggests that in Nepal any difference could arise because of the comparative advantage of birth order as well as a gender bias towards specific types of work. Examining household data from Nicaragua and Guatemala, Dammert (2010) concludes that sons are more closely associated with market work, whereas there is a closer alignment between time allocation and domestic work for daughters.…”

Effects of the Number and Age of Siblings on Educational Transitions in Sub‐Saharan Africa

“…Whereas having many young siblings is a particular disadvantage for girls, they may also benefit more from having older siblings. Some studies have also taken the sex-composition of the siblings into account (Parish and Willis 1993;Lillard and Willis 1994;Sudha 1997;Connelly and Zheng 2003;Dammert 2010). We thought such an approach would make an already complex analysis too intricate and that the effects would be too context-dependent to be addressed in a broad regional study such as ours.…”

Heterogeneous Impacts of an Unconditional CashTransfer Programme on Schooling

“…In this paper we document the human capital effects of Ghana's flagship poverty alleviation programme, the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP), a cash transfer targeted to households who are ultra-poor and fall into specific demographic groups. While schooling impacts of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have been well documented (Attanasio et al, 2010;Dammert, 2010;Schultz, 2004), the evidence from unconditional programmes (UCTs) is somewhat less well-established, though results from ongoing large-scale evaluations suggests that these are also positive and sometimes larger than those reported for CCTs. In CCTs that are conditional on school enrolment, reported increases in school enrolment are typically a direct consequence of programme design and implementation -whether transfers are high enough and conditions are enforced.…”