This paper examines whether an intra-household externality prevents adoption of a technology with substantial … implications for population health and the environment: improved cookstoves. Motivated by a model of intra-household decision … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …

interest to researchers - in our case, time allocations across market work, household labor, and leisure. Using survey …

This paper uses national household survey data to examine changes in real per capita incomes in South Africa between …

household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed …

AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its … workforce, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call … market share in local markets …

call-takers and ambulance dispatchers using the single telephone number 911. Enhanced 911 is characterized by …