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Making marriages last : trust is good, but credible information is better

Thornton, Rebecca L.; Kohler, Hans-Peter - 2017

In high HIV-prevalence contexts, marriage can lead to significant risks through spousal behaviours. Yet, individuals cannot rely on their spouse to reveal their HIV status. Couples' HIV testing and counselling can provide spouses with credible information about each other's HIV status. Using...

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Is the education of local children influenced by living nearby a refugee camp? : evidence from host communities in Rwanda

Bilgili, Özge; Fransen, Sonja; Loschmann, Craig; … - 2018

camp does not have a negative influence on the education of local children. On the contrary, children residing closer to … views regarding the effects of refugees on local education. These results contribute to the body of literature on the …

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Early life shocks and mental health : the long-term effect of war in Vietnam

Singhal, Saurabh - 2018

This paper provides causal evidence on early-life exposure to war on mental health status in adulthood. Using an instrumental variable strategy, the evidence indicates that early-life exposure to bombing during the American war in Vietnam has long-term effects. A one percent increase in bombing...

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Pro-poor service delivery and social identity : an experimental investigation

Mueller, Ulrike - 2012

India addressed the requirement for pro-poor service delivery in rural regions by introducing decentralization and affirmative action policies. In order to measure the social preferences of local decision makers, we conducted field experiments which simulated the selection of needy beneficiaries...

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Gender and bargaining : experimental evidence from rural Uganda

D'Exelle, Ben; Gutekunst, Christine; Riedl, Arno - 2017

We study gender differences in bilateral bargaining using an artefactual field experiment in rural Uganda, through variation in gender composition of bargaining pairs and in disclosure of identities. Disagreement is common independently of disclosure condition, but less frequent among...

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What can experiments tell us about how to improve governance?

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2013

experimental and quasi-experimental methods to study government performance was conducted. It identified 139 relevant papers …

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NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions

Usmani, Faraz; Jeuland, Marc; Pattanayak, Subhrendu - 2018

Interventions in remote, rural settings face high transaction costs. We develop a model of household decision-making to evaluate how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) address these implementation-related challenges and influence intervention effectiveness. To test our model's predictions, we...

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Employment status and educational attainment among disabled Ghanaians

Afoakwah, Clifford; Dauda, Fatima - 2016

of human empowerment such as education and employment. While some employers are unwilling to hire, the educational … systems do not provide enabling environment for a good education. This paper explores employment and educational attainment … that education increases their chance of employment. Moreover, while women with disabilities are dually disadvantaged in …

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Inequality and the changing nature of work in Peru

Ballon, Paola; Dávalos, Jorge - 2020

This paper identifies the socioeconomic drivers of earnings inequality in Peru in the period 2004-18. Using the ENAHO household surveys and data on routine task content of occupations, we apply inequality decomposition methods to the real earnings distribution, its quantiles, and the Gini index....

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Educational inequality in Mozambique

Berg, Servaas van der; Maia, Carlos da; Burger, Cobus - 2017

higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …

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