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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature
Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023
We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...
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Impacts of double-fortified salt on anemia and cognition: four-year follow-up evidence from a school-based nutrition intervention in India
Grafenstein, Liza von; Kumar, Abhijeet; Kumar, Santosh; … - 2021
intervention in India. Using panel data, we examine the effectiveness of the use of iron and iodine fortified salt in school …
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From syringes to dishes : improving food security through vaccination
Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Fu, Wei; Tekin, Erdal; You, Shijun - 2023
This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on food insecurity in the United States, using data from the Household Pulse Survey. Our primary research design exploits variation in vaccine eligibility across states over time as an instrumental variable to address the endogeneity of...
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How sustainable are benefits from extension for smallholder farmers? : evidence from a randomized phase-out of the BRAC program in Uganda
Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobić, Vida; … - 2017
input subsidy and extension program operated by the NGO BRAC to increase the use of improved seed varieties and basic …
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Learning and behavioral spillovers of nutritional information
Prakarsh Singh - 2016
This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517730
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A breath of fresh air: raising awareness for clean fuel adoption
Afridi, Farzana; Debnath, Sisir; Somanathan, E. - 2020
in many developing countries. In our study in central India, we randomly assign villages to a campaign by rural public … them, or raise health awareness along with providing information on the universal cash-back LPG subsidy program or a … financial constraints and the importance of the design of public subsidy schemes in inducing regular usage of clean fuels. …
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Can agricultural extension and input support be discontinued? : evidence from a randomized phaseout in Uganda
Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobić, Vida; … - 2019
A society that believes wealth to be determined by random "luck", rather than by merit, demands more redistribution. We present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, which hit a large area of Central Italy through a series of...
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Correcting for misreporting of government benefits
Mittag, Nikolas - 2016
Recent validation studies show that survey misreporting is pervasive and biases common analyses. Addressing this problem is further complicated, because validation data are usually convenience samples and access is restricted, making them more suitable to document than to solve the problem. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543927
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Behavior change for early childhood nutrition : effectiveness of health worker training depends on maternal information in a randomized control trial
Prakarsh Singh; Masters, William Alan - 2016
providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are …
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Behavioral responses to taxation : cigarette taxes and food stamp take-up
Rozema, Kyle; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper investigates a previously unexplored behavioral response to taxation: whether smokers compensate for higher cigarette taxes by enrolling in food stamps. First, we show theoretically that increases in cigarette taxes can induce food stamp take-up of non-enrolled, eligible smoking...
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