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To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in …) allocated money between themselves and nutritious meals for one of their children. First, we find strong empirical support for … children's meals than men. Third, the spouses' respective bargaining positions derived from consumption patterns strongly …
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control trial in rural Kenya. The original program consisted of 16 fortnightly village-based sessions over 8 months and had … large positive impacts on children's cognition and parenting behaviors immediately after its end. Over the next two years, a … in magnitude. Boosters had a small positive added value on parenting behaviors and children's socioemotional development …
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We estimate the impact of Kenya's post-election crisis on individual risk preferences. The crisis interrupted a …
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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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Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in … ; education ; Kenya …
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in Kenya in which we elicit time and risk preference parameters from 291 participants, using convex time budgets and …
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Partnering with a savings product provider in Kenya, we tested the extent to which behavioral interventions and …
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Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology …
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attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya. Exploiting geographical and temporal variation in wireless signal …
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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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