We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children … an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and … subsequent weeks; consider heterogeneity across prize type, gender, age, and calendar month; and explore differential effects on …

in Ethiopia, using data from a rural household survey conducted in 1994 and an estimated labour demand equation. We also … reflect the limited development of fully organised labour markets in rural Ethiopia. They also imply that purely market … policies directly affecting household decisions, such as food aid, technology transfer, free supply of fertilizers, etc. …

We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There … to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map out the correlation between school sports and adult labour …-market outcomes. We show that different types of school sports are associated with different types of jobs and labour-market insertion …

single village in case of statistical analysis, or on collection of oral histories. By using the information from a household …

We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health … causality mechanisms between these three components (school absenteeism, health status and child labor) can occur either way, it …

of children aged between 7 and 14, we find strong aversion to lying at all ages. Lying is driven mainly by selfish … motives and envy. Children with stronger social preferences are less prone to deception, even when lying would benefit others … at no monetary cost. Older children lie less than younger children and require more selfjustification to lie. …

We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health … causality mechanisms between these three components (school absenteeism, health status and child labor) can occur either way, it …

period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with mainstream banks and loan size is gender-insensitive. In the second period …, the MFI does co-finance above-ceiling projects with mainstream banks, and we observe a gender gap in loan size. The … results suggest that co-financing leads the originally gender-neutral MFI to import disparate treatment from mainstream banks. …