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83- month-old children ages 24 to 83 months (n = 510) in rural Kenya. The first treatment group received storybooks …Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack … benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study …
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,233 children in 101 government primary schools on the south coast of Kenya in 2010-12. The intervention was delivered to children … school children in an area of low-to-moderate malaria transmission. A cluster randomized trial was implemented with 5 … workers used malaria rapid diagnostic tests to screen the children. Children who tested positive were treated with a six …
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The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya …
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This paper measures the economic impact of climate on crops in Kenya. The analysis is based on cross-sectional climate … these, and also constraints on adaptation mechanisms. The results suggest that farmers in Kenya are aware of short …
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The AIDS epidemic threatens Kenya with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to …
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paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of HIV infection and associated sexual behaviors using data from the first five Demographic and Health Surveys to include HIV testing for a representative sample of the adult population. Emerging from a wealth of country relevant results, four important...
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-of-pocket schooling costs for children in poor communities in Kenya by providing school uniforms. The program used a lottery to determine … (7 percentage points) and by 55 percent for children who initially had no uniform (15 percentage points). Eight years …
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of their unassisted competitors. This study tests this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya. The …
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deposits. This paper carefully documents these impacts on the formal financial sector in Kenya after the recent interest rate …
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