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Performance of Social Safety Net Programs in Uttar Pradesh
Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan - 2012
Ajwad assesses the effectiveness of core social protection programs in Uttar Pradesh using the following criteria: i) coverage, ii) targeting efficiency; and iii) adequacy and potential impact on household welfare. The study is largely a quantitative assessment. Five main findings emerge from...
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Estimating Household Responses to Trade Reforms : Net Consumers and Net Producers in Rural Mexico
Porto, Guido G. - 2005
This paper explores an empirical methodology to assess the impacts of trade reforms on household behavior in developing countries. I focus on consumption and income responses: when price reforms take place, households modify consumption and production decisions and local labor markets adjust....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062401
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An Assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Access in Bangladesh's Community Health Clinics
Joseph, George - 2019
Adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities plays a critical role in ensuring improved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865455
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Can Intense Exposure to Hand-Washing and Hygiene Information Campaigns Affect Children's Socio-Emotional Skills? Evidence from Senegal
Halliday, Timothy - 2017
Hygiene information and practices play a critical role in preventing diseases, particularly among children. Hygiene behaviors practiced in the household have been linked to development outcomes such as socio-emotional skills. This paper exploits data from impact evaluation surveys of a hygiene...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970711
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Sanitation and Externalities : Evidence from Early Childhood Health in Rural India
Andres, Luis Alberto - 2017
This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a … direct benefit a household receives when moving from open to fixed-point defecation or from unimproved sanitation to improved … sanitation, and an external benefit (externality) produced by the neighborhood's access to sanitation infrastructure. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973625
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Promoting Handwashing Behavior in Peru : The Effect of Large-Scale Mass-Media and Community Level Interventions
Galiani, Sebastian - 2017
This paper analyzes a randomized experiment that uses novel strategies to promote handwashing with soap at critical times in Peru. It evaluates a large-scale intervention that includes a mass media provincial campaign and a district-level community component. The analysis finds that the mass...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974853
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Overview and Meta-Analysis of Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Impact Evaluations
Andres, Luis Alberto - 2018
This paper presents an overview and meta-analysis of the effects of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions around … water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions on health and non-health outcomes, ranging from behavior change -- such as the … effects. Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions were found to increase the likelihood of behavior changes and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919156
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A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants
McKenzie, David J. - 2007
Individual level census and household survey data are used to present a rich profile of the young developing migrants around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing countries, with the probability of migration peaking in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778277
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Who Cares About Relative Deprivation?
Ravallion, Martin - 2006
Theories of relative deprivation predict negative welfare effects when friends and neighbors become better-off. Other theories point to likely positive benefits. The authors encompass both views within a single model, which motivates their tests using a survey for Malawi that collected data on...
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Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error : A Pseudo-Panel Approach
McKenzie, David J.; Antman, Francisca - 2005
The degree of mobility in incomes is often seen as an important measure of the equality of opportunity in a society and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. But estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the presence of measurement error and non-random attrition from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061842