TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hoop, Jacobus de
AU  - Premand, Patrick
AU  - Rosati, Furio C.
AU  - Vakis, Renos
        TI  - Women's Economic Capacity and Children's Human Capital Accumulation
        PY  - 2017/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10501
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10501
        AB  - Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in school and work that are theoretically undetermined. We present a simple model to describe the possible channels through which these programs may affect children's activities. Based on a cluster-randomized trial, we examine how a program providing capital and training to women in poor rural communities in Nicaragua affected children. Children in beneficiary households are more likely to attend school one year after the end of the intervention. An increase in women's influence on household decisions appears to contribute to the program's beneficial effect on school attendance.
        KW  - women's economic capacity
KW  - female empowerment
KW  - Nicaragua
KW  - child labor
KW  - human capital accumulation
KW  - field experiment
        ER  -