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ECONOMIC GROWTH CENTER

YALE UNIVERSITY

P.O. Box 208629

New Haven, CT 06520-8269
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~egcenter/

CENTER DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 897

ADJUSTING HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE:

SCHOOL ENROLLMENT IMPACTS OF CHILD FOSTERING IN

BURKINA FASO

Richard Akresh

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

November 2004

Notes: Center Discussion Papers are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussions and
critical comments.

I thank Michael Boozer, Kevin Hallock, Ilana Redstone, Paul Schultz, Tavneet Suri,
Christopher Udry, and seminar participants at the BREAD and NEUDC conferences and at
Yale University for helpful comments and suggestions. I acknowledge the collaboration
between Yale University and l'Unité d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Démographie of
the University of Ouagadougou that aided the data collection. I thank the following
organizations for financial support: National Science Foundation (Grant No. 0082840),
Social Science Research Council, J. William Fulbright Fellowship, National Security
Education Program, Institute for the Study of World Politics, and Yale Center for
International and Area Studies. Finally, I thank the members of the field research team, in
particular the field supervisor, Ouedraogo Touende Bertrand, and the data entry supervisor,
Hubert Barka Traore. Contact information: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Department of Economics, 504 E. Armory Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820. Email:
[email protected].

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electronic library at:
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