Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : The Role of Women Leaders for Aspirations and Human Capital Investments
Sustainability of short-term interventions may depend on whether they manage to change families’ attitudes towards the future and related social norms. This investigation shows that role female models in very low-income settings of Nicaragua have a...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/551001511332926411/Sustaining-impacts-when-transfers-end-the-role-of-women-leaders-for-aspirations-and-human-capital-investments http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28983 |
| Summary: | Sustainability of short-term
interventions may depend on whether they manage to change
families’ attitudes towards the future and related social
norms. This investigation shows that role female models in
very low-income settings of Nicaragua have an enormous
impact in raising the bar for the rest of the community by
increasing and sustaining in time basic standards in
children education and health. |
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