Social Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence

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dc.creatorFreund, Richard
dc.creatorFavara, Marta
dc.creatorPorter, Catherine
dc.creatorBehrman, Jere
dc.date2024-05-03T16:29:27Z
dc.date2024-05-03T16:29:27Z
dc.date2023-11-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:34:06Z
dc.descriptionMany 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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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099753005032419658/IDU1163ad595103f6148d21b193123a1531cf03f
dc.identifierThe World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier1564-698X (online)
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41492
dc.identifier10.1596/41492
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/406304
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relationWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.relationWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectFOUNDATIONAL COGNITIVE SKILLS
dc.subjectPUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMS
dc.subjectETHIOPIA
dc.subjectPSNP
dc.subjectEXECUTIVE FUNCTION
dc.subjectPRODUCTIVE SAFETY NET PROGRAMME
dc.subjectNO POVERTY
dc.subjectSDG 1
dc.subjectINDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
dc.subjectSDG 9
dc.subjectDECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectSDG 8
dc.titleSocial Protection and Foundational Cognitive Skills during Adolescence
dc.titleEvidence from a Large Public Works Program
dc.typeJournal Article

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