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High School Track Choice and Liquidity Constraints : Evidence from Urban Mexico
Bobba, Matteo - 2017
We study how a large household windfall affects sorting of relatively disadvantaged youth over high school tracks by exploiting the discontinuity in the assignment of a welfare program in Mexico. The in-cash transfer is found to significantly increase the probability of selecting vocational...
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Social Distance and Trust : Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo
Binzel, Christine - 2013
While strong social ties help individuals cope with missing institutions, trade is essentially limited to those who are part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a member of a given social network (a friend), by...
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Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums : An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data
Nolan, Laura - 2017
services, thereby increasing vulnerability to poor health outcomes. To quantify deprivation for each slum, we construct a basic … deprivation the longer a slum has been notified. In addition, data from the 2012 NSS show that, despite suffering from greater … deprivation, non-notified slums were much less likely to receive financial aid from government slum improvement schemes. Our …
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Assessing the Effect of Mother's Migration on Childhood Mortality in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi
Konseiga, Adama - 2010
Between one and two million migrants reside in cramped conditions in Nairobi's slums without proper access to sanitation or affordable clean water. Children in such areas are exposed to enormous risks, health risks in particular. Using longitudinal data collected every four months during the...
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Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods : Long Run Evidence from Tanzania
Michaels, Guy - 2017
What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...
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Risky Choices and Solidarity : Why Experimental Design Matters
Wunsch, Conny - 2018
slum dwellers in Nairobi that measures subjects' transfers to a worse-off partner both in a setting where participants …
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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn - 2010
Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in urban areas in China are important reasons for this...
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Employment Concentration and Resource Allocation : One-Company Towns in Russia
Commander, Simon John - 2011
The paper looks at the effects of employment concentration on resource allocation with a particular focus on one-company towns in Russia defined as towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment of the locality. Empirical analysis of firms' production functions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119286
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Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006
Liu, Hong - 2012
This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural children in China as well as how such disparities...
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Spatial Frictions
Behrens, Kristian - 2013
The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three...
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