A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and … marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs combined reduce STI more, but cut dropout and pregnancy less, than … education subsidies alone. These results are inconsistent with a model of schooling and sexual behavior in which both pregnancy …

with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the … contraceptive properties of nursing. Second, given a preference for having sons, mothers with no or few sons want to conceive again … sons and daughters, having few or no older brothers results in earlier weaning. Third, these gender effects peak as mothers …

about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These …

, water quality, and health outcomes of Uruguay's nationalization of water services. An important advantage of focusing on …

intermediary, parameters of the information structure (precisions of public and private information), and the level of stress …

and productivity growth is low. We apply our theory to the windfalls of Norway, Iraq and Ghana. The optimal size of Ghana …’s liquidity fund is tiny even with high prudence. Norway’s liquidity fund is bigger than Ghana’s. Iraq’s liquidity fund is …

the arguments presented also apply to Norway. The paper also discusses briefly, similar market solutions to problems …

This paper examines the sources of firm product and process innovation in Norway. It uses a purpose-built survey of …

innovation and b) the factors behind the propensity to innovate in Norwegian firms. The results stress that while interaction …