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Safeguarding consumers through minimum quality standards : milk inspections and urban mortality, 1880-1910

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; McKelligott, … - 2022

We examine the effect of enforcing minimum quality standards (MQSs) on consumer health. In the late 1800s, the urban milk supply was regularly skimmed and diluted with water, but consumers could not easily determine its quality because dyes, caramel, and salt were added. To protect consumers,...

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The impact of violence on individual risk preferences : evidence from a natural experiment

Jakiela, Pamela; Ozier, Owen - 2016

We estimate the impact of Kenya's post-election crisis on individual risk preferences. The crisis interrupted a …

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Labour productivity in Kenyan manufacturing and service industries

Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2016

productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is … crucial for Kenya to have high labour productivity as it has strong implications for economic growth and welfare. The paper …

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Education and fertility : evidence from a policy change in Kenya

Chicoine, Luke E. - 2012

Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in … ; education ; Kenya …

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How soon is now? : evidence of present bias from convex time budget experiments

Balakrishnan, Uttara; Haushofer, Johannes; Jakiela, Pamela - 2016

in Kenya in which we elicit time and risk preference parameters from 291 participants, using convex time budgets and …

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How to help the poor to save a bit : evidence from a field experiment in Kenya

Akbas, Merve; Ariely, Dan; Robalino Aguirre, David A.; … - 2016

Partnering with a savings product provider in Kenya, we tested the extent to which behavioral interventions and …

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Sooner rather than later: social networks and technology adoption

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Satish, Varun; Sulaiman, Munshi; … - 2021

Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology …

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Feed the children

Cherchye, Laurens; Chiappori, Pierre-André; Rock, Bram de - 2021

To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in Nairobi, we conduct an experiment with 424 married couples. In the experiment, the spouses (individually and jointly) allocated money between themselves and nutritious meals for one...

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Terrorism, media coverage and education : evidence from Al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya

Alfano, Marco; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2022

attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya. Exploiting geographical and temporal variation in wireless signal …

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Got technology? : the impact of computers and cell phones on productivity in a difficult business climate ; evidence from firms with female owners in Kenya

Menon, Nidhiya - 2011

Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …, such patterns are absent. -- technology ; computers ; cell-phones ; business obstacles ; Kenya ; firms ; female owners …

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