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The urban poor in developing countries face challenging living environments, which may interfere with good sleep. Using actigraphy to measure sleep objectively, we find that low-income adults in Chennai, India sleep only 5.5 hours per night on average despite spending 8 hours in bed. Their sleep...
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investment. This paper uses a randomized evaluation in Kenya to measure the health impacts of investments to improve source water …
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This study exploits a randomized school health intervention that provided deworming treatment to Kenyan children and utilizes longitudinal data to estimate impacts on economic outcomes up to 20 years later. The effective respondent tracking rate was 84%. Individuals who received 2 to 3...
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school-based deworming. The program increased labor supply among men and education among women, with accompanying shifts in … hold manufacturing jobs, and miss one fewer meal per week. Women who were in treatment schools as girls are approximately …
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United States, Kenya, and Uganda. The existing evidence shows consistent positive impacts on school participation in the …
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-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in turn at randomly varying prices. We find that women - who bear … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …
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-based triple difference specification, we find that local ART introduction increased the weight of high HIV likelihood adult women …
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In contrast to less-skilled men, less-skilled women have experienced growing labor force involvement and moderate wage … increases. Compared to more-skilled women, less-skilled women have fallen behind. We investigated the reasons behind these …, from 1979-2004. We find that less-skilled women have found themselves in an 'intermediate' place in the labor market. Like …
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. We focus on sharp contrasts in schooling, fertility, and infant health between women born just before and after the … primarily the education of young women at risk of dropping out of school …
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We study the impact of a medical breakthrough (HAART) on domestic violence and illicit drug use among low-income women … infected with HIV. To identify causal effects, we assume that variation in women's immune system health when HAART was … health is objectively measured using white blood cell (CD4) counts. Because the women in our sample were informed of their CD …
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