We conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 in three … of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously … relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second treatment provided women with an unrestricted cash grant, but no …

of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which …

for women as mothers and housewives. Partnering with higher education institutions, the dictatorship delivered training … programs aimed at fostering domestic skills. Our findings reveal these programs facilitated women's entry into the labor market … participation among women directly exposed during the dictatorship and their daughters raised in democracy. …

context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … ; incidental truncation ; informal settlements ; Nairobi ; Kenya … children in the slums of Nairobi experience higher child morbidity (43 per cent have at least one sick child in the last one …

dwellers of Nairobi our design measures subjects' willingness to share income with a worse-off partner both in a setting where …