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On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Non Education Outcomes : The Case of Teenage Pregnancy
Cortes, Darwin F.; Gallego, Juan Miguel; Maldonado, Dario - 2021
We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern … education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage … pregnancy if it does not condition on school performance. Then, using an original data base, we estimate the causal impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315991
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Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions When Standard Before-After Doesn't Work : Malawi's ITN Distribution Program
Deuchert, Eva - 2010
Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. We propose an alternative semi-parametric estimator that is based on the assumption that the intervention has no direct effect on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144025
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Do Boys and Girls Use Computers Differently, and Does it Contribute to Why Boys Do Worse in School than Girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed “the Boy Crisis.” An analysis of the latest data … on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores … disadvantaged schoolchildren, I then examine whether time investments made by boys and girls related to computer use contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014978
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Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany : Patterns and Developments
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051607
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind? The Impact of Natural Disasters on Pregnancy Outcomes
Simeonova, Emilia - 2013
evidence on the effect of natural disasters on pregnancy outcomes. Elevated stress levels associated with extreme events …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095574
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The Effect of Oil Spills on Infant Mortality : Evidence from Nigeria
Bruederle, Anna - 2017
Oil spills can lead to irreversible environmental degradation and pose hazards to human health. We are the first to study the causal effects of onshore oil spills on neonatal and infant mortality rates. We use spatial data from the Nigerian Oil Spill Monitor and the Demographic and Health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946853
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The Importance of the Electoral Rule : Evidence from Italy
Bordignon, Massimo - 2011
We employ bootstrap methods (Efron (1979)) to test the effect of an important electoral reform implemented in Italy from 1993 to 2001, that moved the system for electing the Par-liament from purely proportional to plurality rule (for 75% of the seats). We do not find any effect on either the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130016
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Globalization, Gender and Development : The Effect of Parental Labor Supply on Child Schooling
Ural Marchand, Beyza P. - 2011
Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within households, which in turn affects child outcomes. We estimate how changes in parental labor supply due to these tariff reductions affect child schooling by focusing on young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130100
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Channel Systems : Why is There a Positive Spread?
Berentsen, Aleksander - 2010
An increasing number of central banks implement monetary policy via two standing facilities: a lending facility and a deposit facility. In this paper we show that it is socially optimal to implement a non-zero interest rate spread. We prove this result in a dynamic general equilibrium model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135781
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The Impact of School Lunches on Primary School Enrollment : Evidence from India's Midday Meal Scheme
Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2011
At the end of 2001, the Indian Supreme Court issued a directive ordering states to institute school lunches – known locally as 'midday meals' – in government primary schools. This paper provides a large-scale assessment of the enrollment effects of India's midday meal scheme, which offers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117261