Does Child Sponsorship Pay off in Adulthood? : An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth

We estimate the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored children using data on 10,144 individuals in six countries. To identify causal effects, we utilize an age-eligibility rule followed from 1980 to 1992 that limited sponsorship to children twelve...

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Main Authors:	Wydick, Bruce, Glewwe, Paul, Rutledge, Laine
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2018
Subjects:	LABOR PRODUCTIVITY INCOME DISTRIBUTION MIGRATION LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LIVELIHOOD HOUSEHOLD WELFARE
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30959

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spelling	okr-10986-309592021-05-25T10:54:35Z Does Child Sponsorship Pay off in Adulthood? : An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth Wydick, Bruce Glewwe, Paul Rutledge, Laine LABOR PRODUCTIVITY INCOME DISTRIBUTION MIGRATION LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LIVELIHOOD HOUSEHOLD WELFARE We estimate the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored children using data on 10,144 individuals in six countries. To identify causal effects, we utilize an age-eligibility rule followed from 1980 to 1992 that limited sponsorship to children twelve years old or younger when the program was introduced in a village, allowing comparisons of sponsored children with older siblings who were slightly too old to be sponsored. Estimations indicate that international child sponsorship increased monthly income by $13–17 over an untreated baseline of $75, principally from inducing higher future labor market participation. We find evidence for positive impacts on dwelling quality in adulthood and modest evidence of impacts on ownership of consumer durables in adulthood, limited to increased ownership of mobile phones. Finally, our results also show modest effects of child sponsorship on childbearing in adulthood. 2018-12-06T19:39:10Z 2018-12-06T19:39:10Z 2017-06-01 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30959 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Bolivia Guatemala India Kenya Philippines Uganda
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topic	LABOR PRODUCTIVITY INCOME DISTRIBUTION MIGRATION LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LIVELIHOOD HOUSEHOLD WELFARE
spellingShingle	LABOR PRODUCTIVITY INCOME DISTRIBUTION MIGRATION LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LIVELIHOOD HOUSEHOLD WELFARE Wydick, Bruce Glewwe, Paul Rutledge, Laine Does Child Sponsorship Pay off in Adulthood? : An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth
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description	We estimate the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored children using data on 10,144 individuals in six countries. To identify causal effects, we utilize an age-eligibility rule followed from 1980 to 1992 that limited sponsorship to children twelve years old or younger when the program was introduced in a village, allowing comparisons of sponsored children with older siblings who were slightly too old to be sponsored. Estimations indicate that international child sponsorship increased monthly income by $13–17 over an untreated baseline of $75, principally from inducing higher future labor market participation. We find evidence for positive impacts on dwelling quality in adulthood and modest evidence of impacts on ownership of consumer durables in adulthood, limited to increased ownership of mobile phones. Finally, our results also show modest effects of child sponsorship on childbearing in adulthood.
format	Journal Article
author	Wydick, Bruce Glewwe, Paul Rutledge, Laine
author_facet	Wydick, Bruce Glewwe, Paul Rutledge, Laine
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title	Does Child Sponsorship Pay off in Adulthood? : An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth
title_short	Does Child Sponsorship Pay off in Adulthood? : An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth
title_full	Does Child Sponsorship Pay off in Adulthood? : An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth
title_fullStr	Does Child Sponsorship Pay off in Adulthood? : An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth
title_full_unstemmed	Does Child Sponsorship Pay off in Adulthood? : An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth
title_sort	does child sponsorship pay off in adulthood? : an international study of impacts on income and wealth
publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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Does Child Sponsorship Pay off in Adulthood? : An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth

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