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When Information is Not Enough
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Year: 2020 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Effects of Childcare on Women and Children : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Burkina Faso
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Washington, DC : World Bank,

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This paper studies whether providing affordable childcare improves women?s economic empowerment and child development, using data from a sample of 1,990 women participating in a public works program in Burkina Faso. Of 36 urban work sites, 18 were randomly selected to receive community-based childcare centers. One in four women who were offered the centers used them, tripling childcare center usage for children aged 0 to 6 years. Women?s employment and financial outcomes improved. Additionally, child development scores increased. However, the analysis finds no significant effects on women?s decision-making autonomy, gender attitudes, or intrahousehold dynamics, suggesting the importance of considering multiple dimensions of childcare impacts.

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When Information is Not Enough : Evidence from a Centralized School Choice System
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research

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Students often make school choice decisions with inadequate information. We present results from delivering information to randomly selected students (and some randomly selected parents) across 900 junior high schools in Ghana, a country with universal secondary school choice. We provided guidance on application strategies and reported the selectivity and exit exam performance of secondary schools, information students and parents prioritized. We find that despite information changing the characteristics of schools to which students applied and students gaining admission to higher value-added schools, they were not more likely to matriculate on time or at all. Information was not the only constraint.

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