Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : The Role of Women Leaders for Aspirations and Human Capital Investments

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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Main Authors: Macours, Karen, Vakis, Renos
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
SOCIAL INTERACTION
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
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spelling okr-10986-289832021-05-25T10:54:41Z Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : The Role of Women Leaders for Aspirations and Human Capital Investments Macours, Karen Vakis, Renos SOCIAL INTERACTION 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. 2017-12-07T19:40:19Z 2017-12-07T19:40:19Z 2016-09-17 Working Paper 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 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : The Role of Women Leaders for Aspirations and Human Capital Investments
description 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.
format Working Paper
author Macours, Karen
Vakis, Renos
author_facet Macours, Karen
Vakis, Renos
author_sort Macours, Karen
title Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : The Role of Women Leaders for Aspirations and Human Capital Investments
title_short Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : The Role of Women Leaders for Aspirations and Human Capital Investments
title_full Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : The Role of Women Leaders for Aspirations and Human Capital Investments
title_fullStr Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : The Role of Women Leaders for Aspirations and Human Capital Investments
title_full_unstemmed Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : The Role of Women Leaders for Aspirations and Human Capital Investments
title_sort sustaining impacts when transfers end : the role of women leaders for aspirations and human capital investments
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/551001511332926411/Sustaining-impacts-when-transfers-end-the-role-of-women-leaders-for-aspirations-and-human-capital-investments
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