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L'accès à des services énergétiques réduit-il la malnutrition des enfants au Sénégal ? Evaluation du programme des plateformes multifonctionnelles
Buisson, Marie-Charlotte - HAL - 2012
Le programme de plateformes multifonctionnelles (PTF) vise à favoriser l'accès à l'énergie dans les villages ruraux sénégalais. En proposant notamment des services de mouture et de broyage, le programme s'adresse d'abord aux femmes. Il s'agit ici d'évaluer l'impact du programme à partir...
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Envoi de fonds et allocation du temps des enfants au Niger : L'effet indirect des chocs négatifs
Boutin, Delphine - HAL - 2011
By reducing financial constraints and income variability, remittances can increase educational attainment and thereby reduce child labor supply, in the context of imperfect financial markets. This paper aims to analyze the impact of remittances on child labor and educational outcomes in Niger....
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Rethinking Time Allocation of Egyptian Females
Hendy, Rana - HAL - 2010
other hand, we estimate a Propensity Score Matching model in order to evaluate the effect of marriage on females market and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603683
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Do Public Subsidies Have an Impact on New Firm Survival? An Empirical Study with French Data
Desiage, Lionel; Duhautois, Richard; Redor, Dominique - HAL - 2010
This paper deals with the impact of social contributions and tax cuts (which are considered as operating subsidies) on new firms' probability of survival and economic performance. We use a rich matched database of French firms that were newly created in 1998 and that include entrepreneurs'...
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Migration, remittances and poverty in Ecuador
BERTOLI, Simone; Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2014
We analyse the influence of the recent wave of migration on the incidence of poverty among stayers in Ecuador. We draw our data from a survey that provides detailed information on migrants. The analysis reveals a significant negative effect of migration on poverty among migrant households. This...
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Adoption of inflation targeting and tax revenue performance in emerging market economies: An empirical investigation
Lucotte, Yannick - HAL - 2010
Inflation targeting is a monetary policy framework which was adopted by several emerging countries over the last decade. Previous empirical studies suggest that inflation targeting has significant effects on either inflation or inflation variability in emerging targeting countries. But, by...
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Criminality spread: a "Boomerang effect" of public transport improvements?
Bacares, Carlos Augusto Olarte - HAL - 2014
The relationship between accessibility or the degree of improvement of urban transport and criminality has been underestimated and close to forgotten. This paper aims to reveal the importance of public transport policies in the evolution of crime configuration in a city. The hypothesis that the...
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Heterogeneity of the effects of health insurance on household savings: Evidence from rural China
Cheung, Diana; Padieu, Ysaline - HAL - 2013
This paper estimates the impact of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) on household saving across income quartiles in rural China. We use data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey for the 2006 wave and we run an ordinary least squares regression. We control for the endogeneity of...
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Do bankers prefer married couples?
Leturcq, Marion - HAL - 2011
default, banks might be willing to lend to stable couples. In presence of incomplete information, marriage could be used as a … signal of the quality of the match. This paper investigates the link between marriage and credit constraints. I use matching … methods to evaluate the impact of marriage on credit constraints. I find that married couples are more likely to be approved …
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Competing marital contracts? The marriage after civil union in France
Leturcq, Marion - HAL - 2011
marriage in Western Europe and in Northern America: declining marriage rates, increase in cohabitation, increasing divorce … demand for different marital contracts. In France, since 1999, two types of marital contracts are available: the marriage and … of the age at first marriage by cohort. It detects some recent changes in the bottom of the distribution of the age at …
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