On Thursday, December 4, 2008, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. the Center for Global Development and The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies present a Massachusetts Avenue Development Seminar (MADS) featuring: Randall K. Q. Akee of the Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany with Emanuela Galasso of the Development Economics Research Group, World Bank.

The seminar will address recent research led by Akee on measuring the effect of parental income on child outcomes. The research, conducted in the Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation in the US, examined outcomes for the children of participants in a cash transfer program, and found that participants' children had higher levels of education and lower incidence of involvement in minor crime than their peers.

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