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Primary education expansion and quality of schooling : evidence from Tanzania
Valente, Christine - 2015
The rapid increase in primary enrollment seen in many developing countries might worsen schooling quality. I estimate the effect of enrollment growth following the removal of primary school fees in Tanzania and find that it led to large increases in the pupil-teacher ratio and a reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307899
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Primary Education Expansion and Quality of Schooling : Evidence from Tanzania
Valente, Christine - 2015
The rapid increase in primary enrollment seen in many developing countries might worsen schooling quality. I estimate the effect of enrollment growth following the removal of primary school fees in Tanzania and find that it led to large increases in the pupil-teacher ratio and a reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016286
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Saving Neonatal Lives for a Quarter
Valente, Christine; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik; Puri, Mahesh C. - 2020
contribute to slow CHX adoption. Studying the first national CHX roll-out — in Nepal — we find that CHX reduces neonatal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322518
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Population Policy: Abortion and Modern Contraception Are Substitutes
Miller, Grant; Valente, Christine - 2016
instances, abortion services). In this paper, we study Nepal's 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479327
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Civil conflict, gender-specific fetal loss, and selection: A new test of the Trivers–Willard hypothesis
Valente, Christine - In: Journal of Health Economics 39 (2015) C, pp. 31-50
economics contexts. This paper analyzes the effect of in utero exposure to a shock – civil conflict in Nepal – on (i) fetal loss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011193953
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Children of the Revolution: Fetal and Child Health amidst Violent Civil Conflict
Valente, Christine - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2011
, using the recent Maoist insurgency in Nepal as a case study. Conflict intensity is measured by the number of conflict deaths …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293338
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Access to abortion, investments in neonatal health, and sex-selection: Evidence from Nepal
Valente, Christine - In: Journal of Development Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 225-243
I combine fertility histories from the 2006 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey with a census of newly introduced legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010753713
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What did the Maoists ever do for us? Education and marriage of women exposed to civil conflict in Nepal
Valente, Christine - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2011
Between 1996 and 2006, Nepal experienced violent civil conflict as a consequence of a Maoist insurgency, which many … intensity of violence to estimate the impact of conflict intensity on two key areas of the life of women in Nepal, namely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003230
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Population Policy : Abortion and Modern Contraception are Substitutes
Miller, Grant - 2016
instances, abortion services).In this paper, we study Nepal's 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996533
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Population Policy : Abortion and Modern Contraception are Substitutes
Miller, Grant - 2016
instances, abortion services). In this paper, we study Nepal's 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996872