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Dietary diversity as a food security indicator
Hoddinott, John; Yohannes, Yisehac - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002
Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active, healthy life is surely an important component of their poverty. Accordingly, devising an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997171
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Dietary diversity as a food security indicator
Hoddinott, John; Yohannes, Yisehac - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2002
Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active, healthy life is surely an important component of their poverty. Accordingly, devising an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997352
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Complementarities in the production of child health
Abramovsky, Laura; Augsburg, Britta; Jervis, Pamela; … - 2019
This paper estimates flexible child health production functions to investigate whether better water, sanitation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265313
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To invest or not to invest in sanitation: The role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power
Augsburg, Britta; Malde, Bansi; Olorenshaw, Harriet; … - 2021
We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study … how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We … we document influence borrowing and investments: uptake of the sanitation loan is higher among households where the wife …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193561
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Sanitation and credit constraints: The role of labelled microcredit in India's Swacch Bharat Mission subsidy scheme
Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Giunti, Sara; Malde, Bansi - 2022
combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies - Swacch Bharat or 'Clean India …, we provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013193574
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Labeled loans and human capital investments
Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Giunti, Sara; Malde, Bansi - 2023
Imperfect capital markets and commitment problems impede lumpy human capital investments. Labeled loans have been postulated as a potential solution to both constraints, but little is known about the role of the label in influencing investment choices in practice. We draw on a cluster randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480589
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To invest or not to invest in sanitation: The role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power
Augsburg, Britta; Malde, Bansi; Olorenshaw, Harriet; … - 2023
We exploit novel data collected within a randomized controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study … how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We … we document influence borrowing and investments: uptake of the sanitation loan is higher among households where the wife …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480697
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Understanding the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Nepal, 2001 - 2011
Headey, Derek D.; Hoddinott, John - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460120
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Sanitation and credit constraints : the role of labelled microcredit in India's Swacch Bharat Mission subsidy scheme
Augsburg, Britta; Caeyers, Bet; Giunti, Sara; Malde, Bansi - 2022
combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies – Swacch Bharat or ‘Clean India …, we provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822354
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To invest or not to invest in sanitation : the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power
Augsburg, Britta; Malde, Bansi; Olorenshaw, Harriet; … - 2021
We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study … how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We … we document influence borrowing and investments: uptake of the sanitation loan is higher among households where the wife …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801992