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context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … children in the slums of Nairobi experience higher child morbidity (43 per cent have at least one sick child in the last one …
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context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … children in the slums of Nairobi experience higher child morbidity (43 per cent have at least one sick child in the last one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703408
This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement … were positively associated with wages of low-educated workers and women in non-agricultural activities, while no such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269259
Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …
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Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
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productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is … crucial for Kenya to have high labour productivity as it has strong implications for economic growth and welfare. The paper …
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Nairobi, we conduct an experiment with 424 married couples. In the experiment, the spouses (individually and jointly … individual rationality and cooperative behavior. Second, our results suggest that women do not have stronger preferences for …
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We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over twenty years, in tandem with a randomized experiment (deworming) that has exogenously...
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dwellers of Nairobi our design measures subjects' willingness to share income with a worse-off partner both in a setting where …
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This paper investigates the relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting a 1985 policy change in … Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in … reduced fertility. These results are consistent with women having greater control over their fertility decision. …
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