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  • Giving children a better start : preschool attendance and school-age profiles (English)

    This brief summarizes the giving children a better start: preschool attendance and school-age profiles in Uruguay for the period 1995. The author study the effect of pre-primary education on children's...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 81335 Document Date: August 14, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Berlinski,Samuel G.,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Manacorda,Marco

  • Children's work in Andhra Pradesh : trends and determinants (English)

    The study assesses trends in children's involvement in employment and schooling in Andhra Pradesh over the eleven-year period from 1994 to 2005. Considerable progress was made in getting children out of...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 57410 Document Date: February 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Guarcello,Lorenzo,Lyon,Scott,Manacorda,Marco,Rosati,Furio Camillo

  • Industrial structure and child labor : Evidence from Brazil (English)

    In this paper, the authors investigate whether the differential evolution of child work across Brazilian states between 1980 and 2000 can be explained by their different patterns of specialization in industries...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 44006 Document Date: October 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Manacorda,Marco,Rosati,Furio Camillo

  • Giving children a better start : preschool attendance and school-age profiles (English)

    The authors study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes by exploiting a unique feature of the Uruguayan household survey (ECH) that collects retrospective information...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4240 Document Date: June 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Berlinski,Samuel G.,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Manacorda,Marco

  • Local labor demand and child labor (English)

    This paper uses micro data from the Brazilian Pesquisa Nacional Por Amostra de Domicilios (PNAD) between 1981 and 2002 to ascertain the role that local labor demand proxies by male adult employment in...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 44094 Document Date: March 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Manacorda,Marco,Rosati,Furio Camillo

  • Youth in the labor market and the transition from school to work in Tanzania (English)

    Tanzania, together with many other Sub-Saharan countries (see Guarcello and others 2005), suffers from a severe youth unemployment and inactivity problem in urban areas (Mjema 1997). Despite sustained...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 37151 Document Date: July 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kondylis,Florence,Manacorda,Marco

  • Telecommunications performance, reforms, and governance (English)

    The authors assess the effects of private capital and independent regulatory agencies on telecommunications performance by using cross-country panel data from 1990 to 2003. In general, they find that having...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3822 Document Date: January 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Estache,Antonio,Goicoechea,Ana,Manacorda,Marco

  • School to work transition in Sub-Saharan Africa : an overview (English)

    While youth issues are subject of growing attention in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region, data for indicators relating specifically to youth employment remain scarce in most SSA countries. There is therefore...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 43933 Document Date: November 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Guarcello,Lorenzo,Manacorda,Marco,Rosati,Furio Camillo,Lyon,Scott,Valdivia,Cristina Aurora