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Treatment effects with heterogeneous externalities
Arduini, Tiziano; Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo - In: Journal of business & economic statistics : JBES ; a … 38 (2020) 4, pp. 826-838
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The Indian Public Distribution System as Provider of Food Security : Evidence from Child Nutrition in Andhra Pradesh
Tarozzi, Alessandro - 2008
We study whether a sudden increase of the price of rice supplied by the Indian Public Distribution System in Andhra Pradesh, a large Indian state, had a negative impact on child nutrition. A few months after the price increase, a health survey started to record weight for a large sample of...
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Evaluating rural electrification projects : methodological approaches
Peters, Jörg - 2009
In recent years, the international community has expanded efforts in programme evaluation to improve the accountability of development projects. This paper presents approaches to implementing state-of-the-art evaluations in rural electrification projects, taking into account specific challenges...
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Evaluating Rural Electrification Projects - Methodological Approaches
Peters, Jörg - 2009
In recent years, the international community has expanded efforts in programme evaluation to improve the accountability of development projects. This paper presents approaches to implementing state-of-the-art evaluations in rural electrification projects, taking into account specific challenges...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155343
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Female labor force participation and child education in India : evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-27
We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in …
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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
Aygün, Aysun Hızıroglu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
Aygün, Aysun Hızıroğlu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584050
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A closer look: proximity boosts homeless student performance in New York City
Cassidy, Michael T. - 2020
Proximity augments homeless students' educational outcomes. Homeless K-8 graders whose families are placed in shelters near their schools have 8 percent (2.4 days) better attendance, are a third (18 percentage points) less likely to change schools, and exhibit higher rates of proficiency and...
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Chapter 73. Investment in EducationInputs and Incentives
Behrman, Jere R. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4883-4975). 2010
From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …
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Gradients of the Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Developing Countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 2, pp. 660-672
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to changes in the socioeconomic and public health environment into which children are born using individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to 600,000 mothers during the period 1970 to 2000 in 38...
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