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McCaig, Brian; Nguyen, Minh; Kaestner, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine how export expansion induced by the U.S-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) affected migration, school enrollment, work and healthcare use of young children and adolescents in Vietnam. To do so, we exploit variation in tariff reductions across industries associated with the BTA...

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Women's work choices in Kenya : the role of social institutions and household gender attitudes

Giusti, Giovanna De; Kambhampati, Uma S. - In: Feminist economics 22 (2016) 2, pp. 87-113

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Income Changes and Intimate Partner Violence : Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya

Haushofer, Johannes - 2019

Kenya (Haushofer and Shapiro 2016). Here we report detailed impacts of these transfers on physical and sexual intimate … partner violence, and construct a theory to explain them. Transfers to women averaging USD 709 reduced physical and sexual …: physical violence towards non-recipient women in treatment villages decreased (-0:16 SD). We show theoretically that transfers …

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Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming

Hamory, Joan - 2020

This study exploits a randomized school health intervention that provided deworming treatment to Kenyan children and utilizes longitudinal data to estimate impacts on economic outcomes up to 20 years later. The effective respondent tracking rate was 84%. Individuals who received 2 to 3...

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