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Early Child Care and Labor Supply of Lower-Ses Mothers : A Randomized Controlled Trial
Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2023
applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers’ full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers’ earnings by 22%. The effect on full …
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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Boca, Daniela Del - 2020
assigned to an unconditional cash transfer program or to a pure control group. No effect arises for mothers. Increased paternal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834995
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Can Aid Buy Foreign Public Support? Evidence from Chinese Development Finance
Wellner, L; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Brad; … - 2022
Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on the precise commitment, implementation, and completion dates of Chinese development projects. We use data from the Gallup World Poll for 126 countries over...
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Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level
Cruzatti C., John - 2020
We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002-2014 period. We address causality by instrumenting aid with a set...
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The Risks of Nation-Building Through Military Aid and Intervention
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2022
This chapter discusses the role of military interventionism and aid in nation-building. We argue that (1) intervention strategies of foreign actors like the United States often unfavorably interact with local institutional settings, which (2) produces undesired outcomes not only for the target...
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The Asymmetric Impact of Economic Policy and Oil Price Uncertainty on Inflation : Evidence from Developed and Emerging Economies
Anderl, Christina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2023
This paper examines the asymmetric impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and oil price uncertainty (OPU) on inflation by using a Nonlinear ARDL (NARDL) model, which is compared to a benchmark linear ARDL one. Using monthly data from the 1990s until August 2022 for a number of developed and...
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Aid, growth and devolution
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2009
This paper examines whether the federal structure of aid-receiving countries matters in explaining aid effectiveness. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same...
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Physician Density and Infant Mortality : A Semiparametric Analysis of the Returns to Health Care Provision
Liebert, Helge - 2018
This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood diseases. We construct a new panel data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936 based on historical sources. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908713
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The Health Burden of E-Waste : The Impact of E-Waste Dumping Sites on Child Mortality
Lovo, Stefania; Rawlings, Samantha B. - 2022
This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in West Africa, in Ghana and Nigeria. We observe children born before and after the creation of these dumps, and estimate a difference-in-difference specification in which we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077189
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The employment of mothers: Recent developments and their determinants in East and West Germany
Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010
We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low …
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