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household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya. We find that children's weekly hours … HIV/AIDS, but very little is known about the impact of this intervention on the welfare of children in the households of … treated persons. We estimate the impact of ARV treatment on children's schooling and nutrition outcomes using longitudinal …
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This study estimates long-run impacts of a child health investment, exploiting community-wide experimental variation in school-based deworming. The program increased labor supply among men and education among women, with accompanying shifts in labor market specialization. Ten years after...
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sample of 3,500 Kenyan 3-8 year olds. Parents with additional exposure to childhood deworming have children with improved … units higher among treated parents' school-age children, only prior to school closures. Findings are interpreted through a …
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We assess the impacts of a randomized school-based deworming intervention in Kenya on the mortality of recipients …' children using a 23-year longitudinal data set of over 6,500 original participants and their offspring. The under-5 mortality … rate fell by 22% (17 deaths per 1000 live births) for children of treatment group individuals. We find that a combination …
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$1,076 to randomly selected households in rural Kenya. We measure the social preferences of 4,022 children from 1 …We study the effects of an unconditional cash transfer program on social preferences of children. The program allocated … direct effects on children of recipient households and the spillover effects on children of neighboring households. We do not …
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Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive preferences consistent with behavioral features such as loss aversion …
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We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a non-profit organization were randomly assigned a teammate, a supervisor, and a list of individuals to canvass. This created random variation within teams in the degree of...
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using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
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Violent conflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption. This paper studies how firms react to electoral violence using the case of Kenyan flower exporters during the 2008 post-election violence as an example. The violence induced a...
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line with economic theory favoring direct cash transfers, in a randomized experiment in Kenya 95% of urban recipients … prefer mobile money over electricity transfers of a similar monetary value. But Kenya is an outlier with high mobile money …
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