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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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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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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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Access to abortion, investment in neonatal health, and sex-selection : evidence from Nepal
Valente, Christine - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008904155
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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 - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301305
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Children of the revolution : fetal and child health amidst violent civil conflict
Valente, Christine - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301310
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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 - 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/10011395030
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Education and Civil Conflict in Nepal
Valente, Christine - 2013
Between 1996 and 2006, Nepal experienced violent civil conflict as a consequence of a Maoist insurgency, which many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395751
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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), pp. 31-50
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