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Extreme weather induced by climate change can have major consequences for human health. In this study, I quantify the effect of tropical storm frequency and severity on mortality using objective meteorological data and the universe of vital statistics records from a large developing country,...
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This paper studies two experiments of early childhood development programs in The Gambia: one increasing access to services, and another improving service quality. In the first experiment, new community-based early childhood development (ECD) centers were introduced to randomly chosen villages...
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's stock of human capital. This paper considers how markets and non-market institutions determine the quantity, wages, skills … wages. The evidence supports the existence and importance of such frictions in how teacher labor markets function. In many …; teachers on permanent and temporary contracts; and teachers in urban and rural areas. Teacher supply increases with wages …
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