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Does Child Sponsorship Pay off in Adulthood? : An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth / Bruce Wydick
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Wydick, Bruce.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child Sponsorship.
- Childbearing.
- Developing Countries.
- Gender.
- Gender & Law.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Income.
- Labor Policies.
- Population & Development.
- Poverty Monitoring & Analysis.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Wealth.
- Local Subjects:
- Child Sponsorship.
- Childbearing.
- Developing Countries.
- Gender.
- Gender & Law.
- Health, Nutrition and Population.
- Income.
- Labor Policies.
- Population & Development.
- Poverty Monitoring & Analysis.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Wealth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (38 pages)
- Other Title:
- Does Child Sponsorship Pay off in Adulthood?
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2016.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This research estimates the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored children using data on 10,144 individuals in six countries. To identify causal effects, an age-eligibility rule followed from 1980 to 1992 is utilized that limited sponsorship to children twelve years old or younger when the program was introduced in a village, allowing comparisons of sponsored children with older siblings who were slightly too old to be sponsored. Estimations indicate that international child sponsorship increased monthly income by USD 13-17 over an untreated baseline of USD 75, principally from inducing higher future labor market participation. Results show evidence for positive impacts on dwelling quality in adulthood and modest evidence of impacts on ownership of consumer durables in adulthood, limited to increased ownership of mobile phones. Finally, results point to modest effects of child sponsorship on childbearing in adulthood.
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