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    Transferencias monetarias condicionadas : reduccion de la pobreza actual y future (2009)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
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    almahu_9949191453102882
    Format: 1 online resource (364 pages)
    Series Statement: World Bank e-Library.
    Content: En este informe se analiza el impacto de las transferencias monetarias condicionadas (TMC) en los resultados actuales en terminos de pobreza, educacion, salud y nutricion. Para ello, se utiliza como fundamento una gran cantidad de evaluaciones de impacto de programas de TMC cuidadosamente elaboradas. Especificamente, se plantea un marco conceptual que analiza la justificacion economica y politica de las TMC; se examina la creciente evidencia empirica acumulada sobre las TMC, en especial aquella proveniente de evaluaciones de impacto; se analiza como el marco conceptual y los resultados sobre los impactos deben utilizarse como insumos para el diseno de programas de TMC en la practica, y se estudia que lugar ocupan las TMC en el contexto mas amplio de las politicas sociales.
    Additional Edition: Print Version: ISBN 9789588307732
    Language: Spanish
    URL: http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-9-5883-0773-2
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    Cognitive development among young children in Ecuador : the roles of wealth, health and parenting (2005)
    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
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    b3kat_BV040618210
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
    Edition: Also available in print.
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3605
    Content: "Paxson and Schady examine the relationship between early cognitive development, socioeconomic status, child health, and parenting quality in a developing country. They use a sample of over 3,000 predominantly poor pre-school age children from Ecuador and analyze determinants of their scores on the Spanish version of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (TVIP), a widely used test of language ability. The authors show that median age-normed test scores on the TVIP are much lower for older than younger children, and there is greater dispersion in scores among older children. They find that household socioeconomic characteristics, in particular wealth and parental education, are "protective"-children from wealthier households with more educated parents have higher scores. The associations of test scores with wealth and maternal education are larger for older children, suggesting that these factors have cumulative effects on cognitive ability. Last, the authors show that child health and measures of parenting quality are associated with performance on the TVIP. Children with lower hemoglobin levels perform worse on tests. Measures of parenting quality, in particular the degree to which parents are "responsive" and "harsh" toward children, and whether children are read to, account for a portion, although not the majority, of the association between socioeconomic status and cognitive development. "--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/13/2005 , Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2005] , Weitere Ausgabe: Paxson, Christina H: Cognitive development among young children in Ecuador
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Paxson, Christina H., 1960- Cognitive development among young children in Ecuador 2005
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    Child health and the 1988-92 economic crisis in Peru (2004)
    Washington, D.C : World Bank
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    b3kat_BV040617867
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3260
    Note: "March 30, 2004. - Includes bibliographical references. - Title from title screen as viewed on March 30, 2004 , Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2004] , Weitere Ausgabe: Paxson, Christina H: Child health and the 1988-92 economic crisis in Peru
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Paxson, Christina H., 1960- Child health and the 1988-92 economic crisis in Peru 2004
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    Getting girls into school : evidence from a scholarship program in Cambodia (2006)
    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
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    b3kat_BV040618515
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3910
    Content: "Increasing the schooling attainment of girls is a challenge in much of the developing world. The authors evaluate the impact of a program that gives scholarships to girls making the transition between the last year of primary school and the first year of secondary school in Cambodia. They show that the scholarship program had a large, positive effect on the school enrollment and attendance of girls. Their preferred set of estimates suggests program effects on enrollment and attendance at program schools of 30 to 43 percentage points. Scholarship recipients were also more likely to be enrolled at any scchool (not just program schools) by a margin of 22 to 33 percentage points. The impact of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) program appears to have been largest among girls with the lowest socioeconomic status at baseline. The results are robust to a variety of controls for observable differences between scholarship recipients and nonrecipients, to unobserved heterogeneity across girls, and to selective attrition out of the sample. "--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/10/2006 , Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2006]
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Schady, Norbert Rüdiger, 1967- Getting girls into school 2006
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    Are cash transfers made to women spent like other sources of income? (2007)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV040618886
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource (32 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
    Content: How cash transfers made to women are used has important implications for models of household behavior and for the design of social programs. In this paper, the authors use the randomized introduction of an unconditional cash transfer to poor women in rural Ecuador to analyze the effect of transfers on the food Engel curve. There are two main findings. First, the authors show that households randomly assigned to receive Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH) transfers have a significantly higher food share in expenditures than those that were randomly assigned to the control group. Second, they show that the rising food share among BDH beneficiaries is found among households that have both adult males and females, but not among households that only have adult females. Bargaining power between men and women is likely to be important in mixed-adult households, but not among female-only households, where there are no men to bargain with. Finally, the authors show that within mixed-adult households, program effects are only significant in households in which the initial bargaining capacity of women was likely to be weak. This pattern of results is consistent with an increase in the bargaining power of women in households that received BDH transfers
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Rosero, Jose Are cash transfers made to women spent like other sources of income? 2007
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    Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ecuador (2006)
    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
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    b3kat_BV040618535
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 3930
    Content: "The impact of cash transfer programs on the accumulation of human capital is a topic of great policy importance. An attendant question is whether program effects are larger when transfers are "conditioned" on certain behaviors, such as a requirement that households enroll their children in school. This paper uses a randomized study design to analyze the impact of the Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH), a cash transfer program, on enrollment and child work among poor children in Ecuador. There are two main results. First, the BDH program had a large, positive impact on school enrollment, about 10 percentage points, and a large, negative impact on child work, about 17 percentage points. Second, the fact that some households believed that there was a school enrollment requirement attached to the transfers, even though such a requirement was never enforced or monitored in Ecuador, helps explain the magnitude of program effects. "--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 8/30/2006 , Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2006]
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Schady, Norbert Rüdiger, 1967- Cash transfers, conditions, school enrollment, and child work 2006
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    Infant Mortality Over The Business Cycle In The Developing World (2007)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV040618950
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource (47 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
    Content: The diffusion of cost-effective life saving technologies has reduced infant mortality in much of the developing world. Income gains may also play a direct, protective role in ensuring child survival, although the empirical findings to date on this issue have been mixed. This paper assembles data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in 59 countries to analyze the relationship between changes in per capita GDP and infant mortality. The authors show that there is a strong, negative association between changes in per capita GDP and infant mortality- in a first-differenced specification the implied elasticity of infant mortality with respect to per capita GDP is approximately -0.56. In addition to this central result, two findings are noteworthy. First, although there is some evidence of changes in the composition of women giving birth during economic upturns and downturns, the observed changes in infant mortality are not a result of mothers with protective characteristics timing fertility to correspond with the business cycle. Second, the association between infant mortality and per capita GDP is particularly pronounced for periods of large contractions in GDP, suggesting the inability of developing country households or health systems (or both) to smooth resources. Simple back-of-the-envelope calculations using the estimates suggest that there may have been more than 1 million "excess" deaths in the developing world since 1980 as a result of large, negative contractions in per capita GDP
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Baird, Sarah Infant Mortality Over The Business Cycle In The Developing World 2007
    Language: English
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    Development, modernization, and son preference in fertility decisions (2008)
    [Washington, D.C] : World Bank
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    b3kat_BV040619320
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4716
    Content: "A family preference for sons over daughters may manifest itself in different ways, including higher mortality, worse health status, or lower educational attainment among girls. This study focuses on one measure of son preference in the developing world, namely the likelihood of continued childbearing given the gender composition of existing children in the family. The authors use an unusually large data set, covering 65 countries and approximately 5 million births. The analysis shows that son preference is apparent in many regions of the developing world and is particularly large in South Asia and in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region. Modernization does not appear to reduce son preference. For example, in South Asia son preference is larger for women with more education and is increasing over time. The explanation for these patterns appears to be that latent son preference in childbearing is more likely to manifest itself when fertility levels are low. As a result of son preference, girls tend to grow up with significantly more siblings than boys do, which may have implications for their wellbeing if there are quantity-quality trade-offs that result in fewer material and emotional resources allocated to children in larger families. "--World Bank web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/18/2009 , Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2008]
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Filmer, Deon Development, modernization, and son preference in fertility decisions 2008
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    Picking the poor : indicators for geographic targeting in Peru (2000)
    Washington, DC : World Bank, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Poverty Sector Unit
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    b3kat_BV040617115
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 2477
    Content: Geographic targeting of social programs to the poor has become increasingly important in Peru. The potential payoffs of such targeting are large, and differences in outcomes with different targeting indicators are small
    Note: "November 2000"--Cover. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-16). - Title from title screen as viewed on Oct. 03, 2002 , Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2000]
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Schady, Norbert Rüdiger, 1967- Picking the poor 2000
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    The (Positive) Effect of Macroeconomic Crises on the Schooling and Employment Decisions of Children in a Middle-Income Country (2002)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV040617398
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource (38 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4
    Content: Under some conditions, macroeconomic crises can have a positive effect on the accumulation of human capital because they reduce the opportunity cost of schooling. This has profound implications for the design of appropriate social protection policies. The impact of macroeconomic crises on parents' investments in the human capital of their children is a widely contested issue. Schady analyzes the effects of the profound macroeconomic crisis in Peru in 1988-92 on the schooling and employment decisions made by urban school-age children. He arrives at two basic findings: First, the crisis had no effect on the attendance rates of school-age children. But the share of children who were both employed and in school fell significantly during the crisis. Second, mean educational attainment was significantly higher for children who were exposed to the crisis than for those who were not. Schady argues that these findings may be related: children who are not employed have more time available and may therefore put more effort into school. He concludes with a discussion of the implications of his findings for the design of appropriate social protection policies. This paper-a product of the Poverty Sector Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region-is part of a larger effort in the region to understand the effects of macroeconomic crises on households, and to design appropriate policies to mitigate their costs
    Note: Weitere Ausgabe: Schady, Norbert : The (Positive) Effect of Macroeconomic Crises on the Schooling and Employment Decisions of Children in a Middle-Income Country
    Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Schady, Norbert Rüdiger, 1967- The (Positive) Effect of Macroeconomic Crises on the Schooling and Employment Decisions of Children in a Middle-Income Country 2002
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