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We conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 in three … of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously … relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second treatment provided women with an unrestricted cash grant, but no …

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Does Africa need a rotten kin theorem? : experimental evidence from village economies

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Replication redux : the reproducibility crisis and the case of deworming

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In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...

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Language acquisition through parent-child book-sharing : a randomized trial in rural Kenya

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Multilingual assessment of early child development : analyses from repeated observations of children in Kenya

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vocabulary. This study assessed 505 children ages 2 to 6 in rural communities in Western Kenya with comparable vocabulary tests …

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Enhancing young children's language acquisition through parent-child book-sharing : a randomized trial in rural Kenya

Knauer, Heather A.; Jakiela, Pamela; Ozier, Owen; … - 2019

Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack adequate nutrition and cognitive stimulation in early childhood. Several parent support programs have shown significant benefits for children's development, but the programs...

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