Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor households: Evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh

This article was published in The Enterprise Development & Microfinance and the definite version is available at: DOI:10.3362/1755-1986.2015.014 The Article's website is at: https://practicalactionpublishing.com/article/2359/does-wealth-increase-affect-school-enrolment-in-ultra-poor-househo...

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Päätekijä:	Sulaiman, Munshi
Muut tekijät:	BRAC Institute of Governance and Development
Aineistotyyppi:	Journal Article
Kieli:	en_US
Julkaistu:	Practical Action Publishing 2022
Aiheet:	Bangladesh Livelihood development Ultra-poor
Linkit:	http://hdl.handle.net/10361/16332

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spelling	10361-163322022-03-24T09:46:26Z Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor households: Evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh Sulaiman, Munshi BRAC Institute of Governance and Development Bangladesh Livelihood development Ultra-poor This article was published in The Enterprise Development & Microfinance and the definite version is available at: DOI:10.3362/1755-1986.2015.014 The Article's website is at: https://practicalactionpublishing.com/article/2359/does-wealth-increase-affect-school-enrolment-in-ultra-poor-households-evidence-from-an-experiment-in-bangladesh Access to education is usually found to be highly correlated with household income and wealth. This correlation often instigates an expectation that increasing income of the poor households will lead to greater human capital accumulation. This paper exploits randomized roll-out of a large-scale livelihood development programme for the ultra-poor in Bangladesh to measure the effect of asset transfer and livelihood supports on children’s schooling. We find limited impact on enrolment although this programme has been extremely successful in transforming the economic lives of the ultra-poor and causing substantial increases in their income and productive assets. The beneficiary households are also found to have increased their expenditures on education. This increase in educational investment, however, has not affected educational attainment during the evaluation period. We also find that the programme increased the extent of child labour immediately after asset transfers. The level of this impact on children’s work declines two years after the interventions ended. The increases in child labour are concentrated in activities related to livestock rearing, which is the primary type of asset transferred in this programme. However, we do not find evidence indicating a trade-off between children’s enrolment and work. The evidence suggests that asset transfer programmes can be more effective by including additional components focusing on improvement in educational outcomes instead of relying primarily on spillover effects through income gain. Published 2022-02-24T04:35:14Z 2022-02-24T04:35:14Z 2015 2015-06 Journal Article 1755-1978 1755-1986 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/16332 DOI:10.3362/1755-1986.2015.014 en_US https://practicalactionpublishing.com/article/2359/does-wealth-increase-affect-school-enrolment-in-ultra-poor-households-evidence-from-an-experiment-in-bangladesh Enterprise Development & Microfinance Practical Action Publishing
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spellingShingle	Bangladesh Livelihood development Ultra-poor Sulaiman, Munshi Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor households: Evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh
description	This article was published in The Enterprise Development & Microfinance and the definite version is available at: DOI:10.3362/1755-1986.2015.014 The Article's website is at: https://practicalactionpublishing.com/article/2359/does-wealth-increase-affect-school-enrolment-in-ultra-poor-households-evidence-from-an-experiment-in-bangladesh
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title	Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor households: Evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh
title_short	Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor households: Evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh
title_full	Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor households: Evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh
title_fullStr	Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor households: Evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed	Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor households: Evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh
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Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor households: Evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh

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