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Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor h

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 liv...

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Main Author: Munshi, Sulaiman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2015
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245 |a Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor h  |c evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh / Munshi, Sulaima 
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520 |a 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 
773 |a Enterprise Development and Microfinance  |d June 
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