Childhood shocks, safety nets and cognitive skills: Panel data evidence from rural Ethiopia

Guush Berhane, Mehari Abay and Tassew Woldehanna

No 73, ESSP working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Using child-level panel data from rural areas of Ethiopia, this paper analyzes effects of both economic and non-economic shocks on child cognition skills measured after the early childhood age window.

Keywords: shock; health; safety nets; social protection; mental ability; children; rural areas; capacity building; Ethiopia; Eastern Africa; Africa; Sub-saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Working Paper: Childhood Shocks, Safety nets and Cognitive Skills: Panel Data Evidence from Rural Ethiopia (2015)
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