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Structural transformation in rural Viet Nam has led to rising incomes and a diversification of livelihoods away from agriculture. Using panel data on children in 2,181 rural households surveyed over the 2008-14 period, we examine how the welfare of children has been impacted by structural...
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I investigate the relationship between children's endowment and parental investment using a rich dataset on a cohort of children from Ethiopia, who were surveyed at ages eight, twelve and fifteen. Children's endowment is measured by scores on tests of cognitive skills/ability. A child's...
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This paper studies whether increasing the wife's bargaining power results in couples allocating more resources to their child, and, if so, what the underlying mechanisms for this are. We conduct a novel between-subject lab experiment in Tanzania, in which we vary the relative bargaining power...
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many ways to overcome the legacies of fighting. In fact, the post-war peace dividend and the reconstruction of markets and …
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We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where academic research has started to establish stylized facts and where methodological and knowledge gaps remain. We focus our review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime...
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Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains … unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first …
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This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys of 1999, 2003, and 2008 for national, regional, and zonal … analysis, and the Harmonized Nigeria Living Standard Survey of 2008/09 as well as the Nigeria Living Standard Survey of 2003 …
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This paper delves into the effect of female bargaining power on child education and labor outcomes in Nigeria. Female …
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Average adult height is a physical measure of the biological standard of living of a population. While the biological … cohorts born 1951-1992. We find no evidence that the absolute differences in adult height across countries are associated with … different economic living standards. Within countries, however, faster increases in adult cohort height over time are associated …
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