We conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 in three … of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously … relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second treatment provided women with an unrestricted cash grant, but no …

to test whether subjects reduce their income in order to keep it hidden. The analysis finds that women adopt an … expected earnings. This effect is largest among women with relatives attending the experiment. Parameter estimates suggest that … women behave as though they expect to be pressured to share four percent of their observable income with others, and …

to test whether subjects reduce their income in order to keep it hidden. The analysis finds that women adopt an … expected earnings. This effect is largest among women with relatives attending the experiment. Parameter estimates suggest that … women behave as though they expect to be pressured to share four percent of their observable income with others, and …

pastoral setting from Kenya. Our results suggest that household decisions are contested, with husbands using migration …

We estimate the impact of Kenya's post-election crisis on individual risk preferences. The crisis interrupted a …

in Kenya in which we elicit time and risk preference parameters from 291 participants, using convex time budgets and …

development. We find that higher academic achievement reduces the willingness of young Kenyan women to appropriate others' labor …

In Kenya's arid and semi arid lands (ASALs), drought is the most pervasive hazard, natural or otherwise, encountered by … households on a widespread level. This is especially true for northern Kenya, where more than 3 million pastoralist households … are regularly hit by increasingly severe droughts. In the past 100 years, northern Kenya recorded 28 major droughts, 4 of …