Seminário NOVAFRICA: Cuidados infantis, fornecimento de mão-de-obra, e desenvolvimento empresarial: Evidências do Uganda

Na quarta-feira, 18 de maio, às 14:30 horas, hora de Lisboa, na  sala B – 134  , o Centro NOVAFRICA dá as boas-vindas a Lore Vandewalle do The Graduate Institute para apresentar o seu trabalho sobre “Cuidados infantis, fornecimento de mão-de-obra, e desenvolvimento empresarial: Evidências do Uganda”.

Autor:
Lore Vandewalle

Resumo:

In a field experiment in Uganda, mothers of young children are randomly offered a childcare subsidy, an equivalent cash grant, both or nothing. Childcare leads to a 44 percent increase in household income, which is at least as large as the impact of the cash grant and driven by an increase in mothers’ business revenues and fathers’ wage earnings. The childcare subsidy also improves child development while the cash grant does not. Overall, our findings demonstrate that childcare subsidies can be an effective policy to simultaneously promote child development and reduce poverty in a low-income context.

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