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A randomized, controlled study of a rural sanitation behavior change program in Madhya Pradesh, India
Patil, Sumeet R.; Arnold, Benjamin F.; Salvatore, Alicia; … - 2013
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Invitations, incentives, and conditions : a randomized evaluation of demand-side interventions for health screenings in Armenia
De Walque, Damien; Chukwuma, Adanna; … - 2020
The study is a randomized controlled trial that investigates the impact of four demand-side interventions on health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297634
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Who benefits from labor market regulations?: Chile 1960 - 1998
Montenegro, Claudio; Pagés, Carmen - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001847009
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A profile of the world's young developing country migrants : background paper to the 2007 World Development Report
McKenzie, David J. - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003401074
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On the quantity and quality of girls fertility, parental investments, and mortality
Anukriti, S; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Tam, Hiu - 2020
The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973-2005. The analysis finds a narrowing of the gender...
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Taking power : women's empowerment and household well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa
Annan, Jeannie; Donald, Aletheia; Goldstein, Markus P.; … - 2019
how it affects women's health, reproductive outcomes, children's health, and children's education. The analysis uses a …-conflicting reports of intrahousehold decision making. It finds that women's power substantially matters for health and various family and … reproductive outcomes. Women taking power is also better for children's outcomes, in particular for girls' health, but it is worse …
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The long-run impacts of adult deaths on older household members in Tanzania
Adhvaryu, Achyuta R.; Beegle, Kathleen - 2009
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Duration dependence and change-points in the likelihood of credit booms ending
Castroa, Vitor; Kubota, Megumi - 2013
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Do weak institutions prolong crises? : on the identification, characteristics, and duration of declines during economic slump
Bluhm, Richard; Crombrugghe, Denis de; Szirmai, Adam - Weltbankgruppe - 2020
This paper studies periods of prolonged contractions in output per capita in a sample of 145 countries from 1950 to 2014. Economic slumps are defined as abrupt interruptions of a period of growth by several regime switches. Slumps start with a sharp contraction along with a trend break, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564847
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Do weak institutions prolong crises? : on the identification, characteristics, and duration of declines during economic slumps
Bluhm, Richard; Crombrugghe, Denis de; Szirmai, Adam - 2020
This paper studies periods of prolonged contractions in output per capita in a sample of 145 countries from 1950 to 2014. Economic slumps are defined as abrupt interruptions of a period of growth by several regime switches. Slumps start with a sharp contraction along with a trend break, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228613