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Child labor, urban proximity and household composition

Fafchamps, Marcel (contributor); Wahba, Jackline (contributor) - 2006

Using detailed survey data from Nepal, this paper examines the determinants of child labor with a special emphasis on … proportion of all children, work much harder than other children and appear particularly at risk. -- child labour ; Nepal ; child …

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War and women's work : evidence from the conflict in Nepal

Menon, Nidhiya; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen - 2011

This paper examines how Nepal's 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women's decisions to engage in employment. Using … three waves of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, we employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of … effect ; geography ; Nepal …

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In "trusts" we trust : socially motivated private schools in Nepal

Pal, Sarmistha; Saha, Bibhas - 2014

database from Nepal. There are two novel features of our analysis: firstly we allow for heterogeneity among private schools, by …

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Population policy : abortion and modern contraception are substitutes

Miller, Grant; Valente, Christine - 2016

instances, abortion services). In this paper, we study Nepal's 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion …

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Saving neonatal lives for a quarter

Valente, Christine; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik; Puri, Mahesh C. - 2020

contribute to slow CHX adoption. Studying the first national CHX roll-out - in Nepal - we find that CHX reduces neonatal …

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Violent conflict and the child quantity-quality tradeoff

Nepal, Apsara Karki; Halla, Martin; Stillman, Steven - 2018

negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohort of children. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal …

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Do perceptions of economic well-being predict the onset of war and peace?

Swee, Eik Leong; Zhan, Haikun; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2019

While economic deprivation is an important determinant of civil conflict, it cannot completely explain the incentives for warfare. In irregular wars, for example, both incumbents and insurgents may employ various tactics to win the hearts and minds of civilians in order to muster territorial...

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The role of trainee selection in the effectiveness of vocational training : evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Nepal

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Hasan, Syed; Sharma, Uttam - 2023

Based on a randomized controlled trial conducted on extremely poor youths in Nepal, we report the impact of a …

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Can destigmatizing mental health increase willingness to seek help? : experimental evidence from Nepal

Lacey, Lindsey; Mishra, Nirajana; Mukherjee, Priya; … - 2024

associated with mental illness on the willingness to seek mental healthcare among adults in Nepal. The first intervention shares …

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Management compensation and firm-level income inequality

Frederiksen, Anders (contributor); … - 2008

In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management compensation and firm-level income dynamics in a general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the...

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