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Worms at Work : Long-Run Impacts of a Child Health Investment
Baird, Sarah - 2015
This study estimates long-run impacts of a child health investment, exploiting community-wide experimental variation in school-based deworming. The program increased labor supply among men and education among women, with accompanying shifts in labor market specialization. Ten years after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013018302
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Aids Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations : Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya
Zivin, Joshua Graff - 2014
household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya. We find that children's weekly hours … HIV/AIDS, but very little is known about the impact of this intervention on the welfare of children in the households of … treated persons. We estimate the impact of ARV treatment on children's schooling and nutrition outcomes using longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752069
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Randomized Regulation : The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets
Bedoya Arguelles, Guadalupe; Das, Jishnu; Dolinger, Amy - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356919
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Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
Dupas, Pascaline - 2010
, we randomized access to non-interest-bearing bank accounts among two types of self-employed individuals in rural Kenya …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757920
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Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
Duflo, Esther - 2010
To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to present material at a more appropriate level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758162
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Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Malaria Prevention Experiment
Cohen, Jessica - 2008
experiment in Kenya, in which we randomized the price at which prenatal clinics could sell long lasting anti-malarial insecticide ….75 (i.e. from 100 to 87.5 percent subsidy), the price at which ITNs are currently sold to pregnant women in Kenya. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769676
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Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
Dupas, Pascaline - 2014
I use a randomized experiment to test whether information can change sexual behavior among teenagers in Kenya …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750981
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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 …
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Sell Low and Buy High : Arbitrage and Local Price Effects in Kenyan Markets
Burke, Marshall - 2018
low and buy high" rather than the reverse. In a field experiment in Kenya, we show that credit market imperfections limit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922227
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Grain Today, Gain Tomorrow : Evidence from a Storage Experiment with Savings Clubs in Kenya
Aggarwal, Shilpa - 2018
132 ROSCAs in Kenya, one designed around communally storing maize and the other around saving cash for inputs. About 56 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925270