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We conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 in three of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second...
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Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model …
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We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...
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This paper uses microdata for 19 African countries to examine the gender difference in maths test scores amongst … observed in developed countries. This difference cannot be explained by gender differences in school quality, home environment …, or within-school gender discrimination in access to schooling inputs. However, the gender gap varies widely with …
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We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646290
This paper uses microdata for 19 African countries to examine the gender difference in maths test scores amongst … observed in developed countries. This difference cannot be explained by gender differences in school quality, home environment …, or within-school gender discrimination in access to schooling inputs. However, the gender gap varies widely with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607501
Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new industrial and infrastructure development following the creation of the new state of Uttarakhand. The...
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rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity … the design of local and international policy instruments to prevent further deforestation and encourage forest growth … to slow and reverse deforestation. We cover the most recent work touching on a range of issues related to PES programs …
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This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial...
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rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity … the design of local and international policy instruments to prevent further deforestation and encourage forest growth … to slow and reverse deforestation. We cover the most recent work touching on a range of issues related to PES programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775118