context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …

households based on data from a densely populated rural area in Western Kenya. The motivation behind migration is largely …

are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational … health outcomes. Failing to control for endogeneity biases the results in favor of more proximate parents. These findings …

This paper evaluates the household food security situation in Kenya in terms of access to food. We apply a quadratic … almost ideal demand system (QUAIDS) model to nationally representative household survey data from Kenya, and estimate and … security situation in Kenya, and the most severely affected households seem to be those that rely on informal markets and …

The paper investigates birth weight and its correlates in Kenya using nationally representative data collected by the …

developing world. I study the role played by parents' educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … develop new theory-driven survey measures based on hypothetical scenarios that allow me to separately identify parents … inequality concerns over children's final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the …