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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077947
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Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010
more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759650
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Estimating the Impact of Means-Tested Subsidies Under Treatment Externalities with Application to Anti-Malarial Bednets
Bhattacharya, Debopam - 2013
experimental data from Kenya where subsidies were randomized, coupled with GPS-based location information, we show how to estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086233
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Income Changes and Intimate Partner Violence : Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya
Haushofer, Johannes - 2019
Kenya (Haushofer and Shapiro 2016). Here we report detailed impacts of these transfers on physical and sexual intimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890487
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826644
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General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers : Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Egger, Dennis - 2019
653 randomized villages in rural Kenya. The implied fiscal shock was over 15 percent of local GDP. We find large impacts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857666
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022928
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The Persistent Power of Behavioral Change : Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor
Schaner, Simone - 2016
I use a field experiment in rural Kenya to study how temporary incentives to save impact long-run economic outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984758
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Education, HIV, and Early Fertility : Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Duflo, Esther - 2014
A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls' dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government's HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039634
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Money or Power? Financial Infrastructure and Optimal Policy
Berkouwer, Susanna B.; Biscaye, Pierre; Hsu, Eric; Lee, … - 2021
line with economic theory favoring direct cash transfers, in a randomized experiment in Kenya 95% of urban recipients … prefer mobile money over electricity transfers of a similar monetary value. But Kenya is an outlier with high mobile money …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217734