Childhood shocks, safety nets and cognitive skills: Panel data evidence from rural Ethiopia

Berhane, Guush; Abay, Mehari Hiluf; Woldehanna, Tassew. 2015. Childhood shocks, safety nets and cognitive skills: Panel data evidence from rural Ethiopia. ESSP II Working Paper 73. Washington, DC and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: International Food Policy Research Institute and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151201

Using child-level panel data from rural areas of Ethiopia, this paper analyzes effects of both economic and non-economic shocks on child cognition skills measured after the early childhood age window.