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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana
Berry, James; Karlan, Dean S.; Pradhan, Menno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only offered financial education. Both programs included a...
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases … food-borne disease, our model also makes predictions regarding health outcomes. We find that child-mortality patterns …
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Can Market Failure Cause Political Failure
Aney, Madhav; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Morelli, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
wealth and talent. In our model, market failure due to unobservability of talent endogenously creates a class structure that …
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The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers
Cunha, Jesse; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Jayachandran, Seema - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper compares how cash and in-kind transfers affect local prices. Both types of transfers increase the demand for normal goods, but only in-kind transfers also increase supply. Hence, in-kind transfers should lead to lower prices than cash transfers, which helps consumers at the expense of...
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Water Nationalization: network access, water quality, and health outcomes
Borraz, Fernando; González, Nicolás; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In the case of natural monopolies there tends to be a trade-off between a higher quality of output provided by private firms, and a better access for poor consumers provided by public firms. This is partly the reflection of differences in objectives by private and public firms. The former tend...
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The Reliability of Matches in the 2002-2004 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey Panel
McCaig, Brian - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
Tracking households and individuals over time is important for a variety of research and policy questions. Exploring the validity of matched household and individuals within a dataset is a necessary step for ensuring the reliability of analysis designed to address such questions. This paper...
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Trade Liberalization and Enterprise Restructuring in Bulgaria, 1992-4
Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
This paper empirically tests the link between trade openness and enterprise restructuring in Bulgaria. It belongs to a recent line of work in the empirical trade literature that investigates the effects of trade policy on firm behaviour. The trade liberalization following the 1991 economic...
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How Costly is it for Poor Farmers to Lift Themselves out of Subsistence?
Cadot, Olivier; Dutoit, Laure; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
's farmers. The analysis is based on a simple asset-return model of occupational choice. Estimates suggest that the entry (sunk …
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Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil
Chong, Alberto; Duryea, Suzanne; La Ferrara, Eliana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
What are the effects of television, and of role models portrayed in TV programs, on individual behavior? We focus on fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much smaller than in reality. We exploit differences in the timing of entry into...
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A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns
Basu, Arnab K; Chau, Nancy H; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper develops a theory of employment guarantees when labor markets are imperfect and when the credibility of government policy announcements could be in doubt. The basic feature of an EGS is that any individual who satisfies a set of specified criteria is guaranteed public employment at a...
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