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Women’s economic capacity and children’s human capital accumulation

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Jacobus de Hoop, Patrick Premand, Furio Rosati, Renos Vakis

Published: 2017

Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children’s participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through which these programs may affect children’s activities. Based on a cluster-randomized trial, we examine how a program providing capital and training to women in poor rural communities in Nicaragua affected children. Children in beneficiary households are more likely to attend school 1 year after the end of the intervention. An increase in women’s influence on household decisions appears to contribute to the program’s beneficial effect on school attendance.

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Cite this publication | Tags: women's empowerment, women's employment, child well-being, women's programmes