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Rural electrification and fertility : evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

Peters, Jörg; Vance, Colin - 2010

Using household-level survey data from Côte d’Ivoire, this paper investigates the determinants of fertility with a … significant relationship between fertility and electricity, but one that is only revealed when the model distinguishes between … rural and urban areas. Specifically, we find a positive association between electricity and fertility for urban households …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975458

Rural Electrification and Fertility - Evidence from Côte D’Ivoire

Peters, Jörg - 2010

Using household-level survey data from Côte d'Ivoire, this paper investigates the determinants of fertility with a … significant relationship between fertility and electricity, but one that is only revealed when the model distinguishes between … rural and urban areas. Specifically, we find a positive association between electricity and fertility for urban households …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141338

Armed Conflict, Household Victimization, and Child Health in Cote d'Ivoire

Minoiu, Camelia; Shemyakina, Olga - 2014

We examine the causal impact of the 2002-2007 civil conflict in Côte d'Ivoire on children's health using household surveys collected before, during, and after the conflict, and information on the exact location and date of conflict events. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting both...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014174567

Armed Conflicts, Children's Education and Mortality : New Evidence from Ivory Coast

Ouili, Idrissa - 2015

Among the sub-Saharan African countries, Ivory Coast was recently suffered more than ten years of political instability and absence of peace. Using nationally representative household surveys, I exploit temporal and geographical variations of the 1999-2011 Ivorian political instability to...

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Productive Benefits of Health : Evidence from Low-Income Countries

Schultz, T. Paul - 2021

Various household survey indicators of adult nutrition and health status are analyzed as determinants of individual wages. However, survey indicators of health status may be heterogeneous, or a combination of health human capital formed by investment behavior and variation due to genotype,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318802

Productive benefits of health : evidence from low-income countries

Schultz, T. Paul - 2005

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Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Cote D’Ivoire

Bertrand, Marianne; Crépon, Bruno; Marguerie, Alicia … - 2021

Workfare programs are one of the most popular social protection and employment policy instruments in the developing world. They evoke the promise of efficient targeting, as well as immediate and lasting impacts on participants’ employment, earnings, skills and behaviors. This paper evaluates...

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Resumption of Sexual Relations Following Childbirth : Norms, Practices and Reproductive Health Issues in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire

Desgrees du Lou, Annabel; Brou, Hermann - 2006

Before modern contraceptive methods were available in developing countries, postpartum sexual abstinence formed the backbone of birth spacing. With the changes occurring in African societies, how has post-partum sexual abstinence been affected? We conducted an exploratory study in 2000-2001 in...

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Do sustainability standards benefit smallholder farmers also when accounting for cooperative effects? Evidence from Cote D'Ivoire

Sellare, Jorge; Meemken, Eva-Maria; Kouamé, Christophe; … - 2019

While many studies analyzed effects of sustainability standards - such as Fairtrade or Rainforest Alliance - on smallholder farmers in developing countries, most did not sufficiently account for systematic differences between certified and non-certified farmers. Certified farmers are typically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012016053

Smallholder Technical Efficiency Controlling for Environmental Production Conditions

Sherlund, Shane M. - 2011

Smallholder agricultural production depends heavily on environmental production conditions that are largely exogenously determined. Yet, few data sets collect necessary, detailed information on environmental production conditions. This oversight raises the spectre of likely omitted variables...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124837

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