Despite the well-known positive effects of tobacco taxes on health outcomes, policy makers avoid relying on such taxes … applied incorporates the negative price effect caused by an increase in tobacco taxes, combined with a presumed future … reduction in medical expenditures and a rise in working years caused by a reduction in the rate of smoking among the population …

there, in a fixed manner. However, in an experiment with almost 600 boys in India, cues to one's place in the traditional … caste order turn out to influence the expression of these traits. The experiment assigned students to different treatments …

This paper evaluates a program targeted to adolescent girls in Tanzania that aims to empower them economically as well …. In contrast, this evaluation finds that the program did not have any notable effect on most of these outcomes in the … Tanzanian setting. The evaluation also measures the impact of the program with and without microcredit services. The findings …

adolescent girls and young women. The analysis uses data from the Adolescent Girls Initiative endline survey and the Armed … exposure variables. The impact of conflict exposure is then estimated on a set of socioeconomic outcomes of adolescent girls by … Conflict Location&Event Data to measure conflict exposure using constructed cluster-level, self-reported, and external conflict …

This study examines the medium-term effects of a two-year cash transfer program targeted to adolescent girls and young …

them, like smoking and unhealthy diets, are on the rise. Some of these behaviors can be prohibited or prevented by taxation … behaviors, in domains as varied as HIV/AIDS, drugs, alcohol, smoking, obesity, or early marriage prevention. This paper presents …

earthquake of January 2010, just 19 percent of primary school students were enrolled in public schools, with the remainder … enrolled in a mix of religious, for-profit, and non-governmental organization-funded schools. This paper examines changes in … the extent that primary school fees are higher for schools with characteristics associated with education quality. The …

, especially the non-city areas in each province (rural schools), where pupil classroom and teacher ratios have significantly … that it is optimal to deploy young, inexperienced teachers to rural schools and reassign them to urban schools when the …

who have completed higher secondary and tertiary education, but also that all students obtain a much better education …Sri Lanka is increasingly seeking to ensure that its public school system not only delivers greater shares of students …

objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper measures the effects of the program on … students'school participation and academic performance over two years, while also examining heterogeneous impacts and … sustainability. The findings show that the program increased enrollment, especially among girls (8.1 percent in the first year, 11 …