Can Conditional Cash Transfers Compensate for a Father's Absence?

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from a household affects children's school enrollment and work participation in rural Colombia. The results indicate that the permanent departure of the father decreases children's school enrollment by approximately 5 percen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fitzsimmons, Emla, Mesnard, Alice
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24194