Does Child Sponsorship Pay off in Adulthood? : An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth

We estimate the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored children using data on 10,144 individuals in six countries. To identify causal effects, we utilize an age-eligibility rule followed from 1980 to 1992 that limited sponsorship to children twelve...

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Main Authors: Wydick, Bruce, Glewwe, Paul, Rutledge, Laine
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30959