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A World of Cities : The Causes and Consequences of Urbanization in Poorer Countries

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2013

Historically, urban growth required enough development to grow and transport significant agricultural surpluses or a government effective enough to build an empire. But there has been an explosion of poor mega-cities over the last thirty years. A simple urban model illustrates that in closed...

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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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Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social Interactions

Bhattacharya, Debopam - 2019

distribution-free bounds on welfare. We illustrate our results using experimental data on mosquito-net adoption in rural Kenya …

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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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Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs : The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya

Glewwe, Paul; Kremer, Michael; Moulin, Sylvie; … - 2021

This paper compares retrospective and prospective analyses of the effect of flip charts on test scores in rural Kenyan schools. Retrospective estimates that focus on subjects for which flip charts are used suggest that flip charts raise test scores by up to 20 percent of a standard deviation....

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Distinguishing Constraints on Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP, TFP, and the Distribution of Income

Dabla-Norris, Era - 2015

A general equilibrium model featuring multiple realistic sources of financial frictions is developed to study how different constraints interact in equilibrium. We highlight, distinguish, and evaluate their differential impacts and rich interactions. The economic impact of financial inclusion...

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Estimating Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Hyperbolic Discounting, with an Application to Mammography Decisions

Fang, Hanming - 2010

application of adult women's decisions to undertake mammography to evaluate the importance of present bias and naivety in the …

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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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Home Production, Market Production and the Gender Wage Gap : Incentives and Expectations

Albanesi, Stefania - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to study the joint determination of gender differentials in labor market outcomes and in the household division of labor. Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that incentive problems in the labor market amplify differences in earnings due to gender differentials...

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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women'S Career and Marriage Decisions

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the … age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between … women. Although the pill' was approved in 1960 by the FDA and diffused rapidly among married women, it did not diffuse among …

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