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Improving children health and cognition : evidence from school-based nutrition intervention in India

Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018

We present experimental evidence on the impact of delivering double-fortified salt (DFS), salt fortified with iron and iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "mid-day meal" on anemia, cognition, and math and reading scores of primary school children. We conducted a field...

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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti …

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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India

Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2019

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in...

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The impact of targeted regulation of abortion providers laws on abortions and births

Arnold, Grace E. - 2022

This paper analyzes the impact of supply-side abortion restrictions on aggregate abortion and birth rates in the United States. Specifically, I exploit state and time variation in the implementation of the first targeted regulation of abortion provider (TRAP) law in a state to identify the...

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Entrepreneurial recovery from COVID-19 : decentralization, democratization, demand, distribution, and demography

Naudé, Wim - 2020

Entrepreneurship, as reﬂected in the start-up of new ﬁrms, the growth and market exit of existing ﬁrms, and the ﬂow of venture capital, has been severely curtailed by the lockdown and social distancing measures taken by governments around the world in the ﬁght against COVID-19. This...

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Gender inequality in nutrition intake : evidence from a large assistance program

Wang, Qing; Zhang, Shiying - 2020

This paper examines the growth effect of one of the largest nutrition assistance programs in early life. The program covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that contains nine essential micronutrients. We utilize a...

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Targeting household deprivations for multidimensional poverty alleviation : an application to Tunisian data

Nasri, Khaled; Weslati, Adnen - 2022

Tunisia to alleviate multidimensional poverty. In the first part of this research, we intend to decipher the relationship … between official poverty measurement and anti-poverty programs currently implemented in Tunisia, with special emphasis on … counting identification approach and we estimate three groups of potential beneficiaries reflecting three degrees of poverty …

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Sexual orientation and earnings : a meta-analysis 2012-2020

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

This meta-analysis utilizes 24 papers published between 2012-2020 that focus on earnings differences by sexual orientation. The papers cover the period between 1991 and 2018, and countries in Europe, North America and Australia. The meta-analysis indicates that gay men earned less than...

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Women in engineering : the role of role models

Agurto Adrianzén, Marcos; Bazan, M.; Hari, S.; … - 2021

Gender disparities in STEM fields participation are a major cause of concern for policymakers around the world. In addition to talent misallocation, low female enrollment rates in STEM careers contribute to gender-based inequalities in earnings and wealth, given the higher average level of...

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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men

Drydakis, Nick - 2021

The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the same protocol as the original study in 2006-2007, two follow-up field experiments took place in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational...

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