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Poverty Imputation in Contexts without Consumption Data: A Revisit with Further Refinements

Dang, Hai-Anh; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2023

surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household … variables improves accuracy, as does including additional community-level predictors (available from data in Vietnam) related to …

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Imputing Poverty Indicators without Consumption Data: An Exploratory Analysis

Dang, Hai-Anh; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2024

surveys conducted over the past decade in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam, we find encouraging …

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The effects of "girl-friendly" schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT school construction program in Burkina Faso

Kazianga, Harounan; Levy, Dan; Linden, Leigh L.; Sloan, Matt - 2012

We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality girl-friendly primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20...

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Does promoting school attendance reduce child labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso's BRIGHT project

de Hoop, Jacobus; Rosati, Furio C. - 2012

Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT...

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Impacts of rural electrification in Rwanda

Bensch, Gunther; Kluve, Jochen; Peters, Jörg - 2011

electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without …

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Heterogeneous impacts of conditional cash transfers: evidence from Nicaragua

Dammert, Ana C. - 2008

. This paper examines heterogeneous effects using random-assignment data from the Red de Proteccion Social in rural Nicaragua …

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Evaluating nationwide health interventions when standard before-after doesn't work: Malawi's ITN distribution program

Deuchert, Eva; Wunsch, Conny - 2010

evaluate one of Malawi's main malaria prevention campaigns, a nationwide insecticide-treated-net (ITN) distribution scheme, in … that Malawi's ITN distribution campaign reduced child mortality by 1 percentage point, which corresponds to about 30% of …

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Growth with Equity: Income Inequality in Vietnam, 2002–14

Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; McCaig, Brian - 2016

We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household …

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Household Entrepreneurship and Social Networks: Panel Data Evidence from Vietnam

Nguyen, Huu Chi; Nordman, Christophe Jalil - 2017

Using a unique panel of household businesses for Vietnam, this paper sheds light on the links between households' and …

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Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs : Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Estrin, Saul; Meyer, Klaus - 2004

Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on the local environment. An important indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors...

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