9 results on '"de Walque, Damien"'
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2. Cash Transfers after Ebola in Guinea : Lessons Learned on Human Capital
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Mavridis, Dimitris and De Walque, Damien
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CASH TRANSFERS ,LEARNING ASSESSMENT ,EBOLA ,EDUCATION ,EBOLA AWARENESS CAMPAIGN ,IMMUNIZATIONS ,EFFECT OF EBOLA EPIDEMIC ON CHILDREN - Abstract
This paper evaluates the effects of a program that transferred different amounts of cash to poor households in rural Guinea. The program’s aim was to improve children’s schooling and health outcomes in the immediate aftermath of the Ebola pandemic. In treated villages, households received cash conditional only on attending trainings promoting good health practices and schooling. The program randomized at two levels. The first level was between treated and control villages. The second level was within treated villages. Households were randomly distributed in three treatment arms: (i) no cash transfer, (ii) a cash transfer of 8 USD/quarter/child over two years, and (iii) a cash transfer twice as large as in group (ii). School enrollment increased nationwide and rapidly in the aftermath of Ebola. The authors find that it increased significantly more in treated villages. From a low baseline of around 40 percent of primary-school-age enrollment, treated villages increased their school enrollment by more than 11 percentage points compared to control villages. The effect is higher for larger cash transfers compared to those with no cash transfers in treated villages. School enrollment also increased among untreated households in treated villages, probably due to a combined effect—which cannot be differentiated—from spillovers and from the information campaigns. Despite the massive increase in school enrollment, there is no evidence of effects on learning measures. Health inputs such as vaccination deteriorated overall in Guinea in the aftermath of Ebola, and the program did not mitigate this fall.
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- 2022
3. The Socio-Demographic Legacy of the Khmer Rouge Period in Cambodia
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de Walque, Damien
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- 2006
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4. Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Household Welfare Impacts of Conditional and Unconditional Cash Transfers Given to Mothers or Fathers
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Akresh, Richard, de Walque, Damien, and Kazianga, Harounan
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MEASURES ,LEARNING OUTCOMES ,INFORMATION ,INVESTMENT ,CHILDREN ,RIGHTS ,FAMILIES ,SCHOOL FEEDING ,MATHEMATICS ,RURAL HOUSEHOLDS ,EXTERNALITIES ,IMPLEMENTATION ,EMPLOYMENT ,MONITORING ,POOR ,health care economics and organizations ,AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ,SAFETY NETS ,INCOME ,HOUSEHOLD WELFARE ,OUTCOMES ,VALUES ,RESOURCE ALLOCATION ,WOMEN ,EDUCATION ,ENROLLMENT RATES ,SCIENCE ,NUTRITIONAL STATUS ,MALNUTRITION ,INCENTIVES ,POVERTY ,SIBLINGS ,BIRTH HISTORY ,MENTAL HEALTH ,CHILD EDUCATION ,TRANSFER PROGRAMS ,GROUPS ,RISK FACTORS ,HEALTH OUTCOMES ,GIRLS ,HEALTH ,INTERVENTION ,AGED ,STANDARDS ,FARMERS ,INTERVENTIONS ,SECONDARY SCHOOLS ,ORGANIZATIONS ,FAMILY LABOR ,LABOR SUPPLY ,CAPITAL INVESTMENT ,SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMS ,STUDENTS ,DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,CHILD DEVELOPMENT ,SCHOOLS ,INTRAHOUSEHOLD TRANSFERS ,PRICES ,ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS ,SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN ,TRANSFERS ,CASH CROPS ,SAFETY NET PROGRAMS ,NATIONAL POVERTY LINE ,BANKING ,PRODUCTION ,SAFETY NET ,RECORDING ATTENDANCE ,PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE ,MORTALITY ,HOUSEHOLD CHORES ,CLASSROOMS ,HOUSEHOLD HEAD AGE ,SUBSISTENCE FARMERS ,POVERTY REDUCTION ,CLINICS ,SUPPLY ,SCHOOL UNIFORMS ,LIVESTOCK OWNERSHIP ,ATTRITION ,CRISES ,STRESS ,ENROLLMENT FOR BOYS ,FEES ,EPIDEMICS ,TARGETING ,EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES ,HEALTH EDUCATION ,PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE POPULATION ,HOUSEHOLD SURVEY ,COST-EFFECTIVENESS ,ENROLLMENT DATA ,FEEDING PROGRAMS ,HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ,NATIONAL POVERTY ,COST EFFECTIVENESS ,VALUE ,RISK ,FOOD CONSUMPTION ,CHILD LABOR ,POOR FAMILIES ,NET ATTENDANCE RATIO ,CASH TRANSFER PROGRAMS ,STUDENT PARTICIPATION ,FORMAL EDUCATION ,HEALTH CARE ,HUMAN CAPITAL ,SAFETY ,EFFECTS ,REGISTRATION ,GENDER BIAS ,NUTRITION ,SOCIAL SAFETY NETS ,RURAL COMMUNITIES ,HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX ,FOOD FOR EDUCATION ,BARGAINING ,ENROLLMENT RATE ,PARTICIPATION ,RETURNS TO EDUCATION ,LEARNING ,PRIMARY SCHOOLS ,MORBIDITY ,PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ,PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT ,HOUSEHOLD SIZE ,PEOPLE ,PEDIATRICS ,EDUCATION EXPENDITURES ,KNOWLEDGE ,STRATEGY ,PRIMARY SCHOOL ,LABOR ,ENROLLMENT ,POOR HOUSEHOLDS ,ECONOMICS ,PSYCHOLOGISTS ,POVERTY ALLEVIATION ,RURAL ,HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT ,SCHOOL AGE POPULATION ,COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT ,SCHOOL SUPPLIES ,PRIMARY SCHOOLING ,POVERTY LINE ,DROPOUT RATES ,CASH TRANSFERS ,SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ,CHILD MORTALITY ,HOUSEHOLD HEAD ,WEIGHT ,SCHOOLING ,LAW - Abstract
This study conducted a randomized control trial in rural Burkina Faso to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on education, health, and household welfare outcomes. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or unconditional and were given to either mothers or fathers. Conditionality was linked to older children enrolling in school and attending regularly and younger children receiving preventive health check-ups. Compared with the control group, cash transfers improve children's education and health and household socioeconomic conditions. For school enrollment and most child health outcomes, conditional cash transfers outperform unconditional cash transfers. Giving cash to mothers does not lead to significantly better child health or education outcomes, and there is evidence that money given to fathers improves young children's health, particularly during years of poor rainfall. Cash transfers to fathers also yield relatively more household investment in livestock, cash crops, and improved housing.
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- 2016
5. Child ability and household human capital investment decisions in Burkina Faso
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Akresh, Richard, Bagby, Emilie, de Walque, Damien, and Kazianga, Harounan
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education ,Bildungsinvestition ,J12 ,J13 ,Kinderbetreuung ,Familienökonomik ,child ability ,O15 ,household decisions ,sibling rivalry ,Africa ,Burkina Faso ,ddc:330 ,I21 - Abstract
Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure of child ability for all primary school-aged children, regardless of current school enrollment. We explicitly incorporate direct measures of the ability of each child's siblings (both absolute and relative measures) to show how sibling rivalry exerts an impact on the parent's decision of whether and how much to invest in their child's education. We find children with one standard deviation higher own ability are 16 percent more likely to be currently enrolled, while having a higher ability sibling lowers current enrollment by 16 percent and having two higher ability siblings lowers enrollment by 30 percent. Results are robust to addressing the potential reverse causality of schooling influencing child ability measures and using alternative cognitive tests to measure ability.
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- 2010
6. Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
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Akresh, Richard and de Walque, Damien
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050208 finance ,4. Education ,05 social sciences ,education ,Population Policies,Youth and Governance,Primary Education,Post Conflict Reconstruction,Education For All ,16. Peace & justice ,War, Human capital investment, Education, Genocide, Africa ,jel:I20 ,jel:J13 ,civil war, human capital investment, education, genocide, Africa ,jel:O12 ,0502 economics and business ,jel:O15 ,050207 economics - Abstract
Civil war, and genocide in particular, are among the most destructive of social phenomena, especially for children of school-going age. In Rwanda school enrollment trends suggest that the school system recovered quickly after 1994, but these numbers do not tell the full story. Two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide are used to compare children in the same age group who were and were not exposed to the genocide - and their educational outcomes are substantially different. Children exposed to the genocide experienced a drop in educational achievement of almost one-half year of completed schooling, and are 15 percentage points less likely to complete third or fourth grade. Sustained effort is needed to reinforce educational institutions and offer a"second chance"to those youth most affected by the conflict.
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- 2008
7. Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso.
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Akresh, Richard, Bagby, Emilie, De Walque, Damien, and Kazianga, Harounan
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EDUCATION ,COGNITIVE ability ,DECISION making ,EDUCATION & economics ,SIBLING rivalry - Abstract
The article examines the role of children's cognitive ability in household decisions regarding investments in schooling. Particular focus is given to competition between siblings in households with limited resources. According to the authors, children whose ability was one standard deviation higher than the average ability of their siblings were significantly more likely to be enrolled in school. It is suggested that parents with limited resources will attempt to secure as much schooling as possible for the child with the highest ability, rather than distributing their investments evenly among children. The study was carried out in Burkina Faso. Other topics include school expenses, grade progression, and the efficacy of supply-side and demand-side interventions in education.
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8. Parental Education and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from Recomposed Families in Rwanda.
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DE WALQUE, DAMIEN
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ADOPTIVE parents ,ADOPTION ,GUARDIAN & ward ,EDUCATION of orphans ,NATURE & nurture ,BIRTHPARENTS ,NYARUBUYE Massacre, Nyarubuye, Rwanda, 1994 ,EDUCATION - Abstract
The article presents a study seeking to estimate the effect the education level of adoptive parents has on the schooling outcomes of adopted children in recomposed families in Rwanda. The data drawn from the "Enquête intégrale sur les conditions de vie des ménages au Rwanda, 1999-2001," provides information about the education levels of adoptive parents and schooling levels of the biological parents of the adopted orphans. The research also compares the effect of the adoptive parents' education to that of the absent biological parents to consider nature versus nurture analysis. An investigation comparing the effects of orphan placement among relatives and non-relatives and its relation to adoptive parent education is also presented.
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- 2009
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9. Does education affect smoking behaviors?: Evidence using the Vietnam draft as an instrument for college education
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de Walque, Damien
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EDUCATION & society , *VIETNAM War, 1961-1975 , *HEALTH of college students , *LIFE expectancy , *EDUCATIONAL psychology , *STATISTICAL correlation , *WAR & education ,HEALTH of cigarette smokers - Abstract
Abstract: This paper tests the hypothesis that education improves health and increases people''s life expectancy. It does so by analyzing the effect of education on smoking behaviors. To account for the endogeneity of smoking, the analysis develops an instrumental variable approach which relies on the fact that during the Vietnam War college attendance provided a strategy to avoid the draft. The results indicate that education does affect smoking decisions: educated individuals are less likely to smoke, and among those who initiated smoking, they are more likely to have stopped. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2007
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