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Do improved biomass cookstoves reduce PM 2.5 concentrations? : if so, for whom? : empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia

Bluffstone, Randall Ames; LaFave, Daniel; Mekonnen, Alemu; … - 2019

and possibly cut household air pollution in low-income countries. This study uses a randomized controlled trial to examine … household air pollution reductions from an improved biomass cookstove promoted in rural Ethiopia, the Mirt improved cookstove … sample, the Mirt improved cookstove leads to only minor reductions in mean household air pollution (10 percent on average …

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Improved biomass cookstove use in the longer run : results from a field experiment in rural Ethiopia

Mekonnen, Alemu; Beyene, Abebe Damte; Bluffstone, … - 2020

This paper reports on electronically-monitored improved use of the "Mirt" biomass stove in Ethiopia over a relatively long period of three-and-a-half years, using stove use data collected at five points in time. The results show that 62 percent of the households surveyed still retained their...

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Impacts of improved biomass cookstoves on child and adult health : eperimental evidence from rural Ethiopia

LaFave, Daniel; Beyene, Abebe Damte; Bluffstone, … - 2019

This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia. After near complete stove adoption during an initial one-year randomized controlled trial, 60 percent of treatment households continued to use the improved stoves three-years...

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Externalities in rural development : evidence for China

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Cash transfers, behavioral changes and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment

Macours, Karen (contributor); … - 2008

"A variety of theories of skill formation suggest that investments in schooling and other dimensions of human capital will have lower returns if children do not have adequate levels of cognitive and social skills at an early age. This paper analyzes the impact of a randomized cash transfer...

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Poisoning the mind : arsenic contamination and cognitive achievement of children

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Alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms : impacts on routine preventative health clinic visits in Burkina Faso

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Precautionary saving from different sources of income: evidence from rural Pakistan

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The impact of mobile money on poor rural households : experimental evidence from Uganda

Wieser, Christina; Bruhn, Miriam; Kinzinger, Johannes; … - Weltbank - 2019

This paper studies the effect of rolling out mobile money agents in rural Northern Uganda. In a randomized experiment, 168 areas were randomly selected to receive an agent in 2017, with another 163 areas serving as a control group. Administrative data on mobile money transactions suggest that...

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