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The Long-run Effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya
Bruhns, Ramona - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This essay analyzes the long-run economic effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya, with emphasis on fertility, education and child … incidence of child labor doubles for some periods. The level of fertility falls in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836110
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Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government’s HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145417
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Education and Fertility: Evidence from a Policy Change in Kenya
Chicoine, Luke E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting a 1985 policy change in … Kenya that lengthened primary school by one year. An instrumental variables approach measures the exogenous variation in … treatment intensity across birth cohorts. The reform led to an increase in education, a delay in marriage, and reduced fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570798
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Economic determinants of demographic behaviour in Kenya.
JC, Knowles; R, Anker - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1975
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on demographic behaviour in Kenya, with particular reference to the effect on fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966554
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Farmer Demand for Soil Fertility Management Practices in Kenya’s Grain Basket
Kamau, Mercy; Smale, Melinda; Mutua, Mercy - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
in Kenya. We then estimate demand for the most common soil nutrients (N and P). We find that, consistent with theory … influence on use of soil fertility management practices. Sex of household head affects use of soil fertility management … practices only in maize production, and particularly in use of N and P. Decisions to use different categories of soil fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916237
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Der Bruch der Theorie in der Praxis durch Not
Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Some Remarks on Lujo Brentano's View of Labor Market Problems Lujo Brentano (1844-1931) aimed for "realism" in economics. Regarding labor market theory, two topics are of particular interest: His investigations on "Hours and Wages in Relation to Production" (Scribner's 1894) and his analysis "On...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187283
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Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries
Strobl, Eric; Thornton, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822588
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A Cautionary Note on the Use of Exchange Rate Indicators
Wickham, Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1993
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Productivity Change in the Non-Agricultural Economy of Kenya, 1964-1987
Ritter, Arch - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 1989
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005838410
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Determinants of Poverty in Kenya: A Household Level Analysis
Kimenyi, Mwangi Samson; Geda, Alemayehu; Jong, Niek de; … - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2005
Strategies aimed at poverty reduction need to identify factors that are strongly associated with poverty and that are amenable to modification by policy. This article uses household level data collected in 1994 to examine probable determinants of poverty status, employing both binomial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839035