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Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to receive in a non-cooperative equilibrium. To test this, we examine agricultural productivity in polygynous households in West Africa. We find that cooperation is greater –...
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Udry (1996) uses household survey data and finds that the allocation of resources within households is Pareto inefficient, contradicting the main assumption of most collective models of intrahousehold bargaining. He finds that among plots planted with the same crop in the same year, within a...
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Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …
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To examine the impact of Rwanda`s 1994 genocide on children`s schooling, the authors combine two cross … group`s baseline schooling and exploits variation across provinces in the intensity of killings and which children`s cohorts …
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The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity...
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clinics for all children under five years old. There was not such a requirement under the unconditional programs. Compared …
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Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource …-aged children, regardless of current school enrollment. We explicitly incorporate direct measures of the ability of each child … and how much to invest in their child’s education. We find children with one standard deviation higher own ability are 16 …
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Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height … for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey … shocks that children experience at birth on their height several years later. We find that girls born after a shock in a …
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To examine the impact of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide on children’s schooling, the authors combine two cross … group’s baseline schooling and exploits variation across provinces in the intensity of killings and which children’s cohorts … exposed children completing one-half year less education representing an 18.3 percent decline. The effect is robust to …
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Households are dynamic while most surveys only collect information on individuals who are present at a single point in time. We exploit a unique and thorough household membership enumeration in Burkina Faso to consider the analytical costs of the typical static household roster. We document that...
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