Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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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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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