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Nutritional Benefits of Fostering: Evidence from Longitudinal Data in South Africa

Dumas, Christelle; Gautrain, Elsa; Gosselin-Pali, Adrien - 2025

In sub-Saharan Africa, child fostering-a widespread practice in which a child moves out of the household of her … biological parents-can have significant implications for a child's overall well-being. Using longitudinal data from South Africa … nutrition, addressing biases related to selection into treatment and endogenous attrition, two common challenges in the …

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Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022

hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward …

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The role of conflict in sex discrimination: The case of missing girls

Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Minasyan, Anna - 2018

collapse of communist regimes. Yet, the role of conflict has been largely overlooked in the relevant literature on ”missing … girls”. We argue that conflict and group survival concerns can exacerbate the initial son bias and lead to relatively more … of Nagorno Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. First, individual-level survey analysis from Armenia shows …

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Borderline Disorder: (De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …

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Influence of socio-demographic characteristics on different dimensions of household food insecurity in Montevideo, Uruguay

Rossi, Máximo; Ferre, Zuleika; Curutchet, María Rosa; … - 2017

Using a cross-sectional survey with a representative sample of households from the metropolitan area centered on Montevideo, we evaluate first the factorial structure of the Latin American & Caribbean Household Food Security Scale (ELCSA) with an exploratory factor analysis. Secondly, using a...

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When Goal-Setting Forges Ahead but Stops Short

Islam, Asad; Kwon, Sungoh; Masood, Eema; Prakash, Nishith; … - 2020

In this study, we use at scale randomized control trial among 18,000 secondary students in 181 schools in Tanzania (Zanzibar) to examine the effects of personal best goal-settings on students’ academic performance. We also offer non-financial rewards to students to meet the goals they set. We...

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The Impact of Forced Displacement on Host Communities. A Review of the Empirical Literature in Economics

Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020

The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...

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We Need to Talk about Mechanical Turk: What 22,989 Hypothesis Tests Tell us about p-Hacking and Publication Bias in Online Experiments

Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Heyes, Anthony - 2022

Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a very widely-used tool in business and economics research, but how trustworthy are results from well-published studies that use it? Analyzing the universe of hypotheses tested on the platform and published in leading journals between 2010 and 2020 we find evidence of...

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Do Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias?: Evidence from 15,992 Test Statistics and Suggestions for Improvement

Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai M.; Hartley, Jonathan S.; … - 2023

Pre-registration is regarded as an important contributor to research credibility. We investigate this by analyzing the pattern of test statistics from the universe of randomized controlled trials (RCT) studies published in 15 leading economics journals. We draw two conclusions: (a)...

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Do Pre-Registration and Pre-analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias?

Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai M.; Hartley, Jonathan S.; … - 2022

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are increasingly prominent in economics, with pre-registration and pre-analysis plans (PAPs) promoted as important in ensuring the credibility of findings. We investigate whether these tools reduce the extent of p-hacking and publication bias by collecting and...

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