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Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investment in Children
Macours, Karen - 2016
children, but there are many open questions about how such changes can be sustained after transfers end. This paper analyzes …. Households randomly exposed to female leaders with the largest package sustained higher investments in their children and … reported higher expectations and aspirations for the future of their children. These results suggest that program design …
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Family Ties, Inheritance Rights, and Successful Poverty Alleviation : Evidence from Ghana
Kutsoati, Edward - 2012
, Ghana enacted the Intestate Succession (PNDC) Law 111, 1985 and 1998 Children's Act 560 to force men to provide for their …Ghanaian custom views children as members of either their mother's or father's lineage (extended family), but not both …. Patrilineal custom charges a man's lineage with caring for his widow and children, while matrilineal custom places this burden on …
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Informing Mothers about the Benefits of Conversing with Infants : Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Dupas, Pascaline; Falezan, Camille; Jayachandran, Seema; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Despite the well-established importance of verbal engagement for infant language and cognitive development, many parents in low-income contexts do not converse with their infants regularly. We report on a randomized field experiment evaluating a low-cost intervention that aims to raise verbal...
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Intergenerational Impacts of Secondary Education : Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Spelke, Elizabeth S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
more likely to marry a partner with tertiary education and their children have better early childhood development outcomes ….25 standard deviations of test scores once children are of school age. The primary mechanism seems to be that more …-educated caregivers have the knowledge and skills to safeguard their children's health and stimulate their cognitive development. In …
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The Growth Costs of Malaria
McCarthy, Desmond - 2000
Malaria ranks among the foremost health issues facing tropical countries. In this paper, we explore the determinants of cross-country differences in malaria morbidity, and examine the linkage between malaria and economic growth. Using a classification rule analysis, we confirm the dominant role...
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Evaluating the Effects of Large Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries : The Zambian Malaria Initiative
Ashraf, Nava - 2010
Since 2003, Zambia has been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-Malaria campaign which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass distribution of insecticide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462585
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Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Malaria Prevention Experiment
Cohen, Jessica - 2008
It is often argued that cost-sharing -- charging a subsidized, positive price -- or a health product is necessary to avoid wasting resources on those who will not use or do not need the product. We explore this argument through a field experiment in Kenya, in which we randomized the price at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464241
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Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa : An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment
Teklehaimanot, Awash - 2007
This paper estimates the number of people at risk of contracting malaria in Africa using GIS methods and the disease's epidemiologic characteristics. It then estimates yearly costs of covering the population at risk with the package of interventions (differing by level of malaria endemicity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464977
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Mosquitoes : The Long-term Effects of Malaria Eradication in India
Cutler, David - 2007
We examine the effects of malaria on educational attainment and income by exploiting geographic variation in malaria prevalence in India prior to a nationwide eradication program in the 1950s. We find that the program led to modest increases in income for prime age men. This finding is robust to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465107
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Advanced Purchase Commitments for a Malaria Vaccine : Estimating Costs and Effectiveness
Berndt, Ernst R. - 2005
To overcome the problem of insufficient research and development (R&D) on vaccines for diseases concentrated in low-income countries, sponsors could commit to purchase viable vaccines if and when they are developed. One or more sponsors would commit to a minimum price that would be paid per...
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