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Formal education, malaria preventive behaviour, and children's malarial status in Tanzania

Klejnstrup Ritter, Ninja; Lincoln, Joel Silas - 2018

In this study, we assess formal education as a causal determinant of women's malaria preventive behaviour, as well as children's risk of malaria infection. For identification, we rely on exogenous variation in educational attainment generated by educational reforms during the 1970s. We use data...

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Inequality in China: Development, transition, and policy

Li, Shi; Sicular, Terry; Tarp, Finn - 2018

In this paper we describe the major trends in China's income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the outcome of four interleaved stories. The first story is a standard development story characterized by structural change, market development, labour absorption, and the Kuznets...

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Private beats public: A flexible value-added model with Tanzanian school switchers

Brandt, Kasper - 2018

This paper estimates a private school learning premium in Tanzania by implementing a flexible value-added model with unique administrative data on exam scores. The dataset covers 635,000 secondary school students with information on both their primary and lower secondary school exam records,...

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Pro-poor growth in Indonesia: Challenging the pessimism of Myrdal's Asian Drama

Timmer, Charles Peter - 2018

This chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia's development prospects. This pessimism …

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Earnings polarization, ethnicity, and regional perspective in Indonesia

Muttaqien, Arip; Sologon, Denisa; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2018

on qualitative methods. However, quantitative studies on ethnicity in Indonesia are scarce, even though the country has …. This study aims to address the earnings polarization in Indonesia, which is interwoven with social problems, ethnic …

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Maternal employment and children's outcomes: Evidence from Indonesia

Dervisevic, Ervin; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Perova, Elizaveta - 2021

children's health and education in Indonesia. We mobilize several data sources to construct a dataset of more than 32 …

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Tax-benefit microsimulation model in developing countries: A feasibility study for an extension of SOUTHMOD in Indonesia

Muttaqien, Arip; Sologon, Denisa; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2018

This study aims to expand the use of tax-benefit microsimulation tools in Indonesia. In particular, it reviews the … benefits system in Indonesia, followed by an explanation of possible data set and data requirements for simulation. Two … potential sources of data are the fifth round of the Indonesia Family Life Survey and the National Socio-Economic Survey …

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Female work status and child nutritional outcome in Nigeria

Ngenzebuke, Rama Lionel; Akachi, Yoko - 2017

This paper delves into the relationship between child nutritional outcome and (multiple) female work status in Nigeria from a micro perspective. The child nutritional outcome is proxied by child weight-for-age. Female work includes wage employment outside the household, household on-farm...

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Weather shocks and child nutrition: Evidence from Tanzania

Nsabimana, Aimable; Mensah, Justice Tei - 2020

In this paper, we examine the relationship between childhood exposure to adverse weather shocks and nutritional and health outcomes of children in Tanzania. Using household panel data matched with spatially disaggregated data on weather shocks, we exploit the plausibly exogenous variations in...

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Land issues in Vietnam 2006-14: Markets, property rights, and investment

Markussen, Thomas - 2015

This paper uses five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to analyse land issues in Viet Nam from a number of different angles. The VARHS provides panel data at plot as well as household level and I use this rich data set to present descriptive results on...

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