Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability
Using data collected in rural Burkina Faso, this paper examines how children's cognitive abilities influence households' decisions to invest in their education. To address the endogeneity of child ability measures, the analysis uses rainf...
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okr-10986-32502021-04-23T14:02:08Z Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability Akresh, Richard Bagby, Emilie de Walque, Damien Kazianga, Harounan ACCOUNT ACHIEVEMENT ACHIEVEMENT TESTS AVERAGE SCORE BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT BIRTH HISTORY BIRTH ORDER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD HEALTH CHILD LABOR CHILD NUTRITION CHILDREN UNDER AGE CHILDRENS EDUCATION COGNITIVE ABILITY COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT COGNITIVE TESTS EARLY CHILDHOOD EARLY CHILDHOOD YEARS EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT RATE ENROLLMENT RATES EPIDEMICS EXTENDED FAMILY FAMILY MEMBERS FORMAL SCHOOLING GENDER GENDER BIAS GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER GAP GIRLS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS INFANCY INTELLIGENCE INTERVENTIONS INTUITION LOW ENROLLMENT RATES MODELING NET ENROLLMENT OLDER CHILDREN OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN PARENTS PERSONALITY PERSONALITY TRAITS PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN PROBLEM SOLVING PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS PSYCHOLOGY RETURNS TO EDUCATION RISKY BEHAVIORS SAFETY NETS SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIAL PROTECTION TEACHERS WAR YOUNG CHILDREN YOUNGER CHILDREN YOUTH Using data collected in rural Burkina Faso, this paper examines how children's cognitive abilities influence households' decisions to invest in their education. To address the endogeneity of child ability measures, the analysis uses rainfall shocks experienced in utero or early childhood to instrument for ability. Negative shocks in utero lead to 0.24 standard deviations lower ability z-scores, corresponding with a 38 percent enrollment drop and a 49 percent increase in child labor hours compared with their siblings. Negative education impacts are largest for in utero shocks, diminished for shocks before age two, and have no impact for shocks after age two. The paper links the fetal origins hypothesis and sibling rivalry literatures by showing that shocks experienced in utero not only have direct negative impacts on the child's cognitive ability (fetal origins hypothesis), but also negatively impact the child through the effects on sibling rivalry resulting from the cognitive differences. 2012-03-19T17:29:06Z 2012-03-19T17:29:06Z 2012-02-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20120209150137 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3250 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5965 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper The World Region The World Region |
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ACCOUNT ACHIEVEMENT ACHIEVEMENT TESTS AVERAGE SCORE BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT BIRTH HISTORY BIRTH ORDER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD HEALTH CHILD LABOR CHILD NUTRITION CHILDREN UNDER AGE CHILDRENS EDUCATION COGNITIVE ABILITY COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT COGNITIVE TESTS EARLY CHILDHOOD EARLY CHILDHOOD YEARS EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT RATE ENROLLMENT RATES EPIDEMICS EXTENDED FAMILY FAMILY MEMBERS FORMAL SCHOOLING GENDER GENDER BIAS GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER GAP GIRLS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS INFANCY INTELLIGENCE INTERVENTIONS INTUITION LOW ENROLLMENT RATES MODELING NET ENROLLMENT OLDER CHILDREN OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN PARENTS PERSONALITY PERSONALITY TRAITS PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN PROBLEM SOLVING PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS PSYCHOLOGY RETURNS TO EDUCATION RISKY BEHAVIORS SAFETY NETS SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIAL PROTECTION TEACHERS WAR YOUNG CHILDREN YOUNGER CHILDREN YOUTH |
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ACCOUNT ACHIEVEMENT ACHIEVEMENT TESTS AVERAGE SCORE BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT BIRTH HISTORY BIRTH ORDER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD HEALTH CHILD LABOR CHILD NUTRITION CHILDREN UNDER AGE CHILDRENS EDUCATION COGNITIVE ABILITY COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT COGNITIVE TESTS EARLY CHILDHOOD EARLY CHILDHOOD YEARS EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT RATE ENROLLMENT RATES EPIDEMICS EXTENDED FAMILY FAMILY MEMBERS FORMAL SCHOOLING GENDER GENDER BIAS GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER GAP GIRLS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS INFANCY INTELLIGENCE INTERVENTIONS INTUITION LOW ENROLLMENT RATES MODELING NET ENROLLMENT OLDER CHILDREN OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN PARENTS PERSONALITY PERSONALITY TRAITS PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN PROBLEM SOLVING PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS PSYCHOLOGY RETURNS TO EDUCATION RISKY BEHAVIORS SAFETY NETS SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIAL PROTECTION TEACHERS WAR YOUNG CHILDREN YOUNGER CHILDREN YOUTH Akresh, Richard Bagby, Emilie de Walque, Damien Kazianga, Harounan Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability |
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Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5965 |
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Using data collected in rural Burkina
Faso, this paper examines how children's cognitive
abilities influence households' decisions to invest in
their education. To address the endogeneity of child ability
measures, the analysis uses rainfall shocks experienced in
utero or early childhood to instrument for ability. Negative
shocks in utero lead to 0.24 standard deviations lower
ability z-scores, corresponding with a 38 percent enrollment
drop and a 49 percent increase in child labor hours compared
with their siblings. Negative education impacts are largest
for in utero shocks, diminished for shocks before age two,
and have no impact for shocks after age two. The paper links
the fetal origins hypothesis and sibling rivalry literatures
by showing that shocks experienced in utero not only have
direct negative impacts on the child's cognitive
ability (fetal origins hypothesis), but also negatively
impact the child through the effects on sibling rivalry
resulting from the cognitive differences. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Akresh, Richard Bagby, Emilie de Walque, Damien Kazianga, Harounan |
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Akresh, Richard Bagby, Emilie de Walque, Damien Kazianga, Harounan |
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Akresh, Richard |
| title |
Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability |
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Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability |
| title_full |
Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability |
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Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability |
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Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability |
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child labor, schooling, and child ability |
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2012 |
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http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20120209150137 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3250 |
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