Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence
Many low, and middle-income countries have introduced public works programs (PWPs) to fight poverty. This paper provides the first evidence that children from families who benefit from PWPs show increased foundational cognitive skills. The results, based on unique tablet-based data collected as part of a long-standing longitudinal survey, show positive associations between participation in the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia during childhood with long-term memory and implicit learning, and suggestive evidence for working memory. These associations appear to be strongest for children whose households were still PSNP participants in the year of data collection. Evidence suggests that the association with implicit learning may be operating partially through children’s time reallocation away from unpaid labor responsibilities, while the association with long-term memory may in part be due to the program’s success in remediating nutritional deficits caused by early-life rainfall shocks.
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| Format: | Journal Article biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2023-11-13
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| Subjects: | FOUNDATIONAL COGNITIVE SKILLS, PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMS, ETHIOPIA, PSNP, EXECUTIVE FUNCTION, PRODUCTIVE SAFETY NET PROGRAMME, NO POVERTY, SDG 1, INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE, SDG 9, DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH, SDG 8, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099753005032419658/IDU1163ad595103f6148d21b193123a1531cf03f https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41492 |
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