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Using the regression discontinuity design with implicit partitions: The impacts of comunidades solidarias rurales on schooling in El Salvador

de Brauw, Alan; Gilligan, Daniel - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011

Regression discontinuity design (RDD) is a useful tool for evaluating programs when a single variable is used to determine program eligibility. RDD has also been used to evaluate programs when eligibility is based on multiple variables that have been aggregated into a single index using...

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Effects of extension services on technology adoption and productivity among female and male farmers: Summary of ESSP working paper 49

Ragasa, Catherine; Berhane, Guush; Tadesse, Fanaye; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2013

This study contributes new empirical evidence on the gender difference in access to extension services in Ethiopia and how this translates to observed differences in technology adoption and agricultural productivity. Our results suggest that female house-hold heads and plot managers are less...

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Social protection and cash transfers to strengthen familes affected by HIV and AIDS:

Adato, Michelle; Bassett, Lucy - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

vulnerable to poverty, food insecurity, and threats to their children’s nutrition, health, and education, with irreversible …

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Land and schooling: Transferring wealth across generations

Quisumbing, Agnes R. (contributor); … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

among its individual members. They look at how these differences in land holdings and education affect what sons and …

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Public expenditures, growth, and poverty: Lessons from developing countries

Fan, Shenggen (contributor) - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

public investment on urban and rural poverty through case studies of India, China, Thailand, and Uganda. And it highlights …

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Natural disasters, self-Insurance, and human capital investment: Evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi

Yamauchi, Futoshi; Yohannes, Yisehac; Quisumbing, Agnes R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

"This paper uses panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi to examine the impacts of disasters on dynamic human capital production. Our empirical results show that accumulation of biological human capital prior to a disaster helps children maintain investments during the post-disaster...

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Financial literacy

Cohen, Monique - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

The global financial crisis has intensified the problems of over-indebtedness, especially for the poor. In this context, the microfinance industry is giving more attention to building their customers’ financial capabilities, designing products that respond to their needs and preferences, and...

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Spatial networks, labor supply, and income dynamics: Evidence from Indonesian villages

Yamauchi, Futoshi; Muto, Megumi; Chowdhury, Shyamal; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2009

transition to nonagricultural labor markets depend on the distance to economic centers and the household education level. In … particular, postprimary education significantly increases the benefit from local spatial connectivity improvement in remote areas … and promotes labor transition to nonagricultural sectors. Education and local road quality are complementary, mutually …

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Policy-Oriented Research Impact Assessment (PORIA) case study on the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Mexican PROGRESA anti-poverty and human resource i...

Behrman, Jere R. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

specific investments in education, health, and nutrition. The paper first describes PROGRESA/Oportunidades and estimates of the …

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Empowering women to achieve food security:

Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

, Hilary Sims Feldstein, and Guadalupe Duron Brief 6. Education / Elizabeth M. King and Harold Alderman Brief 7. Labor Markets …

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