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The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya … activity. Reducing the cost of education by paying for school uniforms reduced dropout rates, teen marriage, and childbearing. …
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relationship between the school enrollment of 6 to 14 year olds and the distance to primary and secondary schools in 21 rural areas … yields only small increases in average school participation, and only small reductions in within-country inequality. The data … endogenous school placement. Data can be geographically matched over time in three of the study countries and under some …
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need for more research on the effects of policy interventions on outcomes beyond access to a year in school and what they …
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school children in an area of low-to-moderate malaria transmission. A cluster randomized trial was implemented with 5 …,233 children in 101 government primary schools on the south coast of Kenya in 2010-12. The intervention was delivered to children … randomly selected from classes 1 and 5 who were followed up twice across 24 months. Once during each school term, public health …
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randomized controlled trial conducted by DrumNet in Kenya that attempts to help farmers adopt and market export crops. DrumNet …
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the impact of the liberalization of regulatory barriers against foreign and domestic business service providers in Kenya … completed by specialists in Kenya. The authors estimate that Kenya will gain about 11 percent of the value of Kenyan consumption … that the largest gains to Kenya will derive from liberalization of costly regulatory barriers that are non …
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Kenya has long had a reputation of being politically risky, manifested in corruption, uncertainty about policies, and … the importance of political connections in doing business. Kenya began its economic liberalization in 1993. Reform picked …
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This paper measures the economic impact of climate on crops in Kenya. The analysis is based on cross-sectional climate … these, and also constraints on adaptation mechanisms. The results suggest that farmers in Kenya are aware of short …
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-Saharan Africa. Kenya's infant mortality rate has fallen by 7.6 percent per year, the fastest rate of decline among the 20 countries … in the region for which recent Demographic and Health Survey data is available. Kenya's rate of postneonatal deaths per 1 … widespread ownership of insecticide-treated bednets in areas of Kenya where malaria is rare suggests that better targeting of …
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methodology is illustrated using a series of Demographic Health Surveys from Kenya …
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