Documents et rapports
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Giving children a better start : preschool attendance and school-age profiles (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 81335 Date du document: 14 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Berlinski,Samuel G.,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Manacorda,Marco
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Towards consistency in child labor measurement : assessing the comparability of estimates generated by different survey instruments (anglais)
The study addresses the comparability of child labor estimates produced by different common household survey instruments. This question has important implications for credibility of published estimates...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 57415 Date du document: 1 juin 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Guarcello,Lorenzo,Kovrova,Irina,Lyon,Scott,Manacorda,Marco,Rosati,Furio Camillo
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Children's work in Andhra Pradesh : trends and determinants (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 57410 Date du document: 1 février 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Guarcello,Lorenzo,Lyon,Scott,Manacorda,Marco,Rosati,Furio Camillo
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Industrial structure and child labor : Evidence from Brazil (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 44006 Date du document: 1 octobre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Manacorda,Marco,Rosati,Furio Camillo
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Giving children a better start : preschool attendance and school-age profiles (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4240 Date du document: 1 juin 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Berlinski,Samuel G.,Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Manacorda,Marco
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Local labor demand and child labor (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 44094 Date du document: 1 mars 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Manacorda,Marco,Rosati,Furio Camillo
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Youth in the labor market and the transition from school to work in Tanzania (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 37151 Date du document: 1 juillet 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kondylis,Florence,Manacorda,Marco
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Telecommunications performance, reforms, and governance (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3822 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Estache,Antonio,Goicoechea,Ana,Manacorda,Marco
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School to work transition in Sub-Saharan Africa : an overview (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 43933 Date du document: 1 novembre 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Guarcello,Lorenzo,Manacorda,Marco,Rosati,Furio Camillo,Lyon,Scott,Valdivia,Cristina Aurora