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Remittances and Household Expenditure Behaviour in Senegal

Randazzo, Teresa; Piracha, Matloob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper analyses the impact of remittances on household expenditure behaviour in Senegal. We use propensity score … matching and OLS methods to assess the average impact of remittances on several household budget shares. Our results show a … productive use of international remittances in Senegal. However, the impact of remittances disappears when the marginal spending …

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Migration and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Mexico

Angelucci, Manuela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Using data collected for the evaluation of the rural component of Oportunidades, Mexico's flagship anti-poverty program, I show that poor households' entitlement to an exogenous, temporary but guaranteed income stream increases US migration even if this income is mainly consumed and that some...

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Incentives for Teacher Relocation: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance

Pugatch, Todd; Schroeder, Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers across schools. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation and the presence of...

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Remember When It Rained: The Elusiveness of Gender Discrimination in Indian School Enrollment

Zimmermann, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender-differential treatment is the main explanation, but empirical support is often weak. I analyze school enrollment using rainfall shocks, a plausibly exogenous source of income...

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Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan

Groh, Matthew; McKenzie, David; Shammout, Nour; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this phenomenon. The first experiment tests the role of search and matching frictions by providing...

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Can Mistargeting Destroy Social Capital and Stimulate Crime? Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program in Indonesia

Cameron, Lisa A.; Shah, Manisha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Cash transfer programs can provide important financial support for poor households in developing countries and are becoming increasingly common. However the potential for mistargeting of program funds is high. This paper focuses on the social consequences arising from misallocation of resources...

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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation during India's Economic Boom

Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004, showing a much more nuanced picture of female labor force...

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Conflict and its Impact on Educational Accumulation and Enrollment in Colombia: What We Can Learn from Recent IDPs

Wharton, Kate; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The effect of being directly impacted by conflict on a child's educational accumulation and enrollment is of particular concern because of...

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Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children

Akresh, Richard; Verwimp, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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 conducted in 1992. We exploit district and time variation in...

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Understanding Low Average Returns to Education in Africa: The Role of Heterogeneity across Education Levels and the Importance of Political and Economic Reforms

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Until very recently, the conventional wisdom was that the return to education was very high in Africa. However, some recent analysis point to low average returns to education in some African countries including Nigeria. Given these low returns to education, a relevant question is what causes low...

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