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A firm of one's own : experimental evidence on credit constraints and occupational choice
Brudevold-Newman, Andrew; Honorati, Maddalena; Jakiela, … - 2017
We conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 in three … of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously … relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second treatment provided women with an unrestricted cash grant, but no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613418
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Enhancing women's entrepreneurship in Kenya : initial qualitative assessment of the ILO's GET Ahead Business Training Programme
Stangl, Anne; Farley, Kathryn; Sievwright, Kirsty; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596655
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Childhood housing and adult earnings : a between-siblings analysis of housing vouchers and public housing
Andersson, Fredrik; Haltiwanger, John C.; Kutzbach, Mark J. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563040
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Female labor market conditions and family formation
Kondo, Ayako (contributor) - 2008
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Heterogeneous effects of health insurance on birth related outcomes : unpacking compositional vs. direct changes
Ma, Jie; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - 2020
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Long run effects of youth training programs : experimental evidence from Argentina
Alzúa, María Laura; Cruces, Guillermo; López, Carolina - 2016
We study the effect of a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life-skills and vocational training, as well as internships with private sector employers. Participants were allocated by means of a public lottery. We rely on administrative data on...
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Constructing female subject : narratives on family and life security among the urban poor in Turkey
Murakami, Kaoru - 2009
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Cash transfers as a response to COVID-19 : a randomized experiment in Kenya
Brooks, Wyatt; Donovan, Kevin; Johnson, Terence; … - 2021
We deliver one month's average profit to a randomly selected group of female microenterprise owners in the Kenyan slum of Dandora, just preceding with the exponential growth of COVID-19 cases. Firm profit, inventory spending, and food expenditures all increase. The transfers simultaneously cause...
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Growing markets through business training for female entrepreneurs : a market-level randomized experiment in Kenya
McKenzie, David J.; Puerto, Susana - 2017
of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which …
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Fertility and HIV risk in Africa
Yao, Yao - 2016
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