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children from Ethiopia, who were surveyed at ages eight, twelve and fifteen. Children's endowment is measured by scores on …I investigate the relationship between children's endowment and parental investment using a rich dataset on a cohort of … - higher ability children are more likely to be enrolled in school and less likely to work and, conditional on participation …
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choices about political participation. We test our argument with an original household survey of 12,000 households from war …
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Ethiopia in the 1990s with the trajectory of the armed movements in Somalia that also overthrew the incumbent military regime …
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Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient. What then should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy?...
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heterogeneous impact by the level of rebelocracy. Using a household panel in four conflict regions in Colombia, the estimation …
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We investigate whether there are racial and ethnic disparities in children's education in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and … Viet Nam. We find that in all the four countries, and especially in Viet Nam, children from small ethnic groups have lower … education attainment and cognitive ability. The gap in educational attainment and cognitive ability among ethnic children is …
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. -- household efficiency ; intra-household models ; experimental games ; Ethiopia …An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency …. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial …
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on farm household’s food security status, using a sample of 301 farm households from two livelihood zones of the Tigray … Regional State of Ethiopia. The average treatment effect (ATT) results show that households with access to remittance have … significantly lower Coping Strategy index (CSI), Reduced Coping Strategy index (rCSI) and Household Food Insecurity Access Scale …
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The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middleincome countries has made it … collecting household consumption data, which is rarely done by phone. To test the feasibility of collecting consumption data over … the phone, we conducted a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia, randomly assigning households to either phone or in …
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deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal …
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