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Remedying Education : Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India
Cole, Shawn Allen; Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; … - 2021
of education in urban slums. A remedial education program hired young women from the community to teach basic literacy …
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The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor
Bessone, Pedro; Rao, Gautam; Schilbach, Frank; … - 2021
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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Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming
Hicks, Joan Hamory - 2020
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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When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming
Ahuja, Amrita - 2015
United States, Kenya, and Uganda. The existing evidence shows consistent positive impacts on school participation in the …
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Keeping the Doctor Away : Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products
Meredith, Jennifer - 2013
curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 … be highly sensitive to price and that both liquidity and targeting women increase demand. We find no effect of providing …
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Borrowing Requirements, Credit Access, and Adverse Selection : Evidence from Kenya
Jack, William - 2016
Do the stringent formal sector borrowing requirements common in many developing countries restrict credit access, technology adoption, and welfare? When a Kenyan dairy's savings and credit cooperative randomly offered some farmers the opportunity to replace loans with high down payments and...
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The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on Covid-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration
Burlig, Fiona; Sudarshan, Anant; Schlauch, Garrison - 2021
using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find...
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The Power of TV : Cable Television and Women's Status in India
Oster, Emily F. - 2008
in women's status. We find significant increases in reported autonomy, decreases in the reported acceptability of beating … and other countries attempt to decrease bias against women …
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Exploring Gender Differences in Employment and Wage Trends Among Less-Skilled Workers
Blank, Rebecca M. - 2010
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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