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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Prakash, Nishith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
increased girls' age-appropriate enrollment in secondary school by 30% and also reduced the gender gap in age …We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in … secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with a bicycle that would improve access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821791
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Women's Education: Harbinger of Another Spring? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Turkey
Kaushal, Neeraj; Grossman, Michael; Dinçer, Mehmet Alper - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We use the 1997 Education Law in Turkey that increased compulsory formal schooling from five to eight years to study … the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures … children per women by 0.11. There is also some evidence of a decline in child mortality, caused by mother's education, but …
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Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa
McMillan, Margaret Mcmillan; Kazianga, Harounan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper addresses the role of tropical disease in rural demography and land use rights, using data from Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control in Burkina Faso. We combine a new survey of village elders with historical census data for 1975-2006 and geocoded maps of treatment under the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951272
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The Impact of Youth Service on Future Outcomes: Evidence from Teach For America
Fryer, Roland; Dobbie, Will - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
individuals more optimistic about the life chances of poor children, and makes them more likely to work in education. We argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294557
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Program Evaluation and Research Designs
DiNardo, John Enrico; Lee, David S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This chapter provides a selective review of some contemporary approaches to program evaluation. One motivation for our review is the recent emergence and increasing use of a particular kind of "program" in applied microeconomic research, the so-called Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627157
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When Can Public Policy Makers Rely on Private Markets? The Effective Provision of Social Services
Blank, Rebecca M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
The privatization of social services is being increasingly discussed. The social services market is characterized by multiple market failures, including informational asymmetries, agency problems, externalities, and distributional concerns. Consumers may care as much or more about quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005718455
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Subjective Outcomes in Economics
Hamermesh, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
This study examines the various uses of subjective outcomes as a focus of interest for economists. It outlines the possible channels by which economists can usefully add to what are already massive literatures on such outcomes in the other social sciences. Generally we contribute little if we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830545
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Worms: Education and Health Externalities in Kenya
Miguel, Edward Andrew; Kremer, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
the world's population. A randomized evaluation of a project in Kenya suggests that school-based mass treatment with … deworming drugs reduced school absenteeism in treatment schools by one quarter; gains are especially large among the youngest … children. Deworming is found to be cheaper than alternative ways of boosting school participation. By reducing disease …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575607
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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...
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Unhappy Cities
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Gottlieb, Joshua D.; Ziv, Oren - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
There are persistent differences in self-reported subjective well-being across U.S. metropolitan areas, and residents of declining cities appear less happy than other Americans. Newer residents of these cities appear to be as unhappy as longer term residents, and yet some people continue to move...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822019