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Spring Cleaning : Rural Water Impacts, Valuation and Property Rights Institutions

Kremer, Michael - 2009

investment. This paper uses a randomized evaluation in Kenya to measure the health impacts of investments to improve source water … are much smaller than levels implied by health planners' typical valuations of child mortality, consistent with models in … which the demand for health is highly income elastic. Simulations suggest that, at current income levels, private property …

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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 …

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Why Are Indian Children So Short?

Jayachandran, Seema - 2015

. This pattern persists when we compare height between siblings, and also holds for health inputs such as vaccinations. Three …

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A Mother's Voice : Impacts of Spousal Communication Training on Child Health Investments

Björkman-Nyqvist, Martina; Jayachandran, Seema; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of a communication training program for mothers on child health in … husbands and, thereby, boost investments in children's health. We find that the program increases spousal discussion about the … family's health, nutrition, and finances. However, this does not increase overall adoption of health-promoting behaviors or …

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Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Jayachandran, Seema - 2020

This article reviews the recent literature in economics on small-scale entrepreneurship ("microentrepreneurship") in low-income countries. Major themes in the literature include the determinants and consequences of joining the formal sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial...

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Social Norms as a Barrier to Women's Employment in Developing Countries

Jayachandran, Seema - 2020

This article discusses cultural barriers to women's participation and success in the labor market in developing countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment, as well as how gender norms vary substantially across...

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Converging to Convergence

Kremer, Michael; Willis, Jack; You, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Empirical tests in the 1990s found little evidence of poor countries catching up with rich - unconditional convergence - since the 1960s, and divergence over longer periods. This stylized fact spurred several developments in growth theory, including AK models, poverty trap models, and the...

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What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review

Kremer, Michael - 2007

infrastructure, such as wells. Various traditional child health interventions have been shown to be effective in fighting diarrhea …

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Economic Transformation, Population Growth and the Long-Run World Income Distribution

Chamon, Marcos - 2006

We construct and calibrate a model of the world economy in which countries' opportunities to develop depend on their trade with advanced economies. Trade opportunities in turn depend on the relative population of the advanced and developing world. As developing countries become advanced, they...

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The Illusion of Sustainability

Kremer, Michael - 2004

The history of foreign development assistance is one of movement away from addressing immediate needs and toward focusing on the underlying causes of poverty. A recent manifestation is the move towards sustainability,' which stresses community mobilization, education, and cost-recovery. This...

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