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Left Behind: Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in the Midst of HIV/AIDS
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Turan, Belgi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper provides evidence on how adverse health conditions affect the transfer of human capital from one generation to the next. We explore the differential exposure to HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa as a substantial health shock to both household and community environment. We...
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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being: Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in … India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls’ outcomes. Using repeated … abortion. We then exploit the large regional and time variations in the incidence of prenatal sex selection to analyze whether …
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What Are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations around the Developing World?
McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital
Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital...
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Can Microinsurance Help Prevent Child Labor? An Impact Evaluation from Pakistan
Landmann, Andreas; Frölich, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show how reducing vulnerability can affect child labor and schooling. We exploit the extension of a health and accident insurance scheme by a Pakistani microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a...
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Social Learning and Health Insurance Enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme
Liu, Hong; Sun, Qi; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the role of social learning in household enrollment decisions for the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using a rich dataset from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find that the social network...
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Race, Ethnicity and the Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial differences in static health insurance coverage rates into group differences in transition rates into...
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Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict business creation. We address the limited research on the topic of "entrepreneurship lock" by using recent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys. We use difference-indifference models to estimate the...
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Inputs, Gender Roles or Sharing Norms? Assessing the Gender Performance Gap Among Informal Entrepreneurs in Madagascar
Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Vaillant, Julia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
value added 28 percent lower than their male counterparts. Correcting for endogenous selection into informal self …
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Do Business Groups Help or Hinder Technological Progress in Emerging Markets? Evidence from India
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Zhou, Ying - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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