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Influence of socio-demographic characteristics on different dimensions of household food insecurity in Montevideo, Uruguay
Rossi, Máximo; Ferre, Zuleika; Curutchet, María Rosa; … - 2017
Using a cross-sectional survey with a representative sample of households from the metropolitan area centered on Montevideo, we evaluate first the factorial structure of the Latin American & Caribbean Household Food Security Scale (ELCSA) with an exploratory factor analysis. Secondly, using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119266
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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 … several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391116
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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022
hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805676
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The role of conflict in sex discrimination : the case of missing girls
Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Minasyan, Anna - 2018
collapse of communist regimes. Yet, the role of conflict has been largely overlooked in the relevant literature on "missing … girls". We argue that conflict and group survival concerns can exacerbate the initial son bias and lead to relatively more … of Nagorno Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. First, individual-level survey analysis from Armenia shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131224
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Borderline disorder : (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306383
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When goal-setting forges ahead but stops short
Islam, Asad; Kwon, Sungoh; Masood, Eema; Prakash, Nishith; … - 2020
In this study, we use at scale randomized control trial among 18,000 secondary students in 181 schools in Tanzania (Zanzibar) to examine the effects of personal best goal-settings on students’ academic performance. We also offer non-financial rewards to students to meet the goals they set. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208663
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Inequality of opportunity in education : accounting for the contributions of sibs, schools and sorting across East Africa
Anand, Paul; Behrman, Jere R.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Jones, Sam - 2018
education in East Africa requires policies that go beyond raising average school quality and should attend to the distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150153
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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239323
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Do pre-registration and pre-analysis plans reduce p-hacking and publication bias?
Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Hartley, Jonathan S.; … - 2023
Pre-registration is regarded as an important contributor to research credibility. We investigate this by analyzing the pattern of test statistics from the universe of randomized controlled trials (RCT) studies published in 15 leading economics journals. We draw two conclusions: (a)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448178
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We need to talk about Mechanical Turk : what 22,989 hypothesis tests tell us about p-hacking and publication bias in online experiments
Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Heyes, Anthony - 2022
Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a very widely-used tool in business and economics research, but how trustworthy are results from well-published studies that use it? Analyzing the universe of hypotheses tested on the platform and published in leading journals between 2010 and 2020 we find evidence of...
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