WIDER Working Paper 2017/93 - Are there different spillover effects from cash transfers to men and women? Impacts on investments in education in post-war Uganda
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Are There Different Spillover Effects From Cash Transfers to Men and Women? Impacts on Investments in Education in Post-War Uganda
This paper looks at the spillover effects of a grant, the Youth Opportunities Program (YOP), on human capital investments in conflict-affected Northern Uganda. The YOP grant was aimed at providing start-up money to groups of underemployed youth, while working in practice similar to an unconditional cash transfer. It kept a gender balance by mandating that groups contained at least a third of wo...
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