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developed and many candidates are being tested. Strategies to implement HIV/AIDS vaccination need to be developed to be ready … epidemic if vaccination leads to riskier behavior? How much funding will be needed? The authors use two computer simulation …
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The information set from which individuals make their decision on vaccination includes signals from trusted agents … provide a signal about the underlying risk of the pandemic and indirectly affect vaccination take-up. Rather than focusing on … responses to the pandemic can modify the degree of preventive health behavior, including vaccination. To do so, the paper uses …
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adverse social context for women. It is seen as the cause of lower social and economic achievement for mothers and their … opportunities of the young mothers. Actually, women who gave birth during their adolescence have on average 0.34 more years of …
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-in-difference estimations show that the reform resulted in rising employment rates for mothers of six-year-old children. The effect is lower for … mothers living in households with elderly people, but larger for those facing stronger trade-offs prior to the reform. Overall …
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Female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2011 are surprisingly low and have stagnated since the late 1980s. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, married women's labor force participation hovered around 18 percent. Analysis...
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This paper uses a stochastic dynamic programming model to characterize the optimal savings-consumption decisions and the role of livestock inventories as a buffer stock in rural Ethiopia. The results show that relatively land-rich households use accumulation and liquidation of cattle and other...
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The aim of this paper is to provide feedback on the question of socioeconomic benefits from rural road development and the impact of transport infrastructure on the poor, particularly the poorest and the bottom 20 percent of the population. This paper relies on impact evaluation methodologies,...
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Despite large amounts invested in rural roads in developing countries, little is known about their benefits. This paper derives an expression for the willingness-to-pay for a reduction in transport costs from the canonical agricultural household model and uses it to estimate the benefits of a...
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Using detailed geographical and household survey data from Nepal, this article investigates the relationship between isolation and subjective welfare. This is achieved by examining how distance to markets and proximity to large urban centers are associated with responses to questions about...
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This paper uses uniquely matched household, enterprise and community survey data from four major regions in rural Ethiopia to characterize the performance, constraints and opportunities of nonfarm enterprises. The nonfarm enterprise sector is sizeable, particularly important for women, and plays...
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