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Does BMI Predict the Early Spatial Variation and Intensity of Covid-19 in Developing Countries? Evidence from India

Menon, Nidhiya - 2020

This paper studies BMI as a correlate of the early spatial distribution and intensity of Covid-19 across the districts of India and finds that conditional on a range of individual, household, and regional characteristics, adult BMI significantly predicts the likelihood that the district is a...

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Community-Based Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending in Africa : Evidence from Rwanda

Woldemichael, Andinet - 2016

In the absence of third party and prepayment systems such as health insurance and tax-based healthcare financing, households in many low-income countries are exposed to the financial risks of paying large medical bills from out-of-pocket. In recent years, community based health insurance schemes...

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Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship : A Pan-African RCT

Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2020

Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5,000 entrepreneurs from 49 African countries. All were enrolled in an online business course, and the treatment involved random assignment to either face-to-face or virtual...

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Targeting Poverty Under Complementarities : Evidence from Indonesia's Unified Targeting System

Tohari, Achmad - 2017

Combining nationally representative administrative and survey data with official proxy means testing models and coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia's Unified Targeting system, an innovation developed to...

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Protecting Girls from Droughts with Social Safety Nets

Chatterjee, Jagori - 2020

This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and investigates how this relationship changes when households have access to government-provided employment opportunities outside of agriculture. When a household's preference for...

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Impact of Pollution from Coal on the Anemic Status of Children and Women : Evidence from India

Datt, Gaurav - 2020

Economic growth in emerging market economies has come hand-in-hand with growing demand for energy, with many of them meeting this higher demand by increased use of coal to fuel electricity generation. This paper examines the impact of pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic...

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Initial Conditions Matter : Social Capital and Participatory Development

Cameron, Lisa A. - 2015

field experiment of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Indonesia, we find that villages with high initial social capital …

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Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India

Kumar, Santosh - 2017

In this paper, we investigate the impacts of political decentralization and women reservation in local governance on institutional births and child mortality in the state of Bihar, India. Using the difference-in-differences methodology, we find a significant positive association between...

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Scaling Up Sanitation : Evidence from an RCT in Indonesia

Cameron, Lisa A. - 2017

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a widely used sanitation intervention, Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS …), using a randomized controlled trial. The intervention was implemented at scale across rural East Java in Indonesia. CLTS … constraints faced by poorer households limit their ability to improve sanitation. We also examine the program's scale up process …

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Labor Market Engagement and the Health of Working Adults : Evidence from India

Dang, Archana - 2017

Driven by rapid income growth, labor market transitions in the nature of jobs, and lifestyle factors, there has been a widespread increase in rates of overweight and obesity in many countries. This paper examines the effect of occupational engagement and work intensity on the weight of urban...

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