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Household Access to Microcredit and Children's Food Security in Rural Malawi : A Gender Perspective

Hazarika, Gautam; Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb - 2021

female household members improves 0-6 year old girls', though not boys', long-term nutrition as measured by height … girls' food security. That women's access to microcredit improves young girls' long-term nutrition may be explained in part …

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Enhancing Human Capital at Scale

Agostinelli, Francesco; Avitabile, Ciro; Bobba, Matteo - 2021

A two-year randomized evaluation shows that the effectiveness of multi-tasking men- tors on schooling outcomes …

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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity : The Experience of Afghan Households

D'Souza, Anna - 2012

linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large … variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, food insecurity is not higher in conflict … conflict in the province where the household is located. We find robust evidence that households in provinces with higher …

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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan : A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts

D'Souza, Anna - 2012

We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...

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Could Education Promote the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process?

El-Attar, Mayssun - 2009

This paper explores Palestinians' attitudes towards a peace process and their determinants, with a particular focus on the role of education. Understanding the factors that shape attitudes towards peace is important in order to be successful in negotiations or in implementing a peace agreement....

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Do the Maths : An Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics in Africa

Dickerson, Andrew P. - 2013

This paper uses microdata for 19 African countries to examine the gender difference in maths test scores amongst primary school children. There is a significant difference in maths test scores in favour of boys, similar to that previously observed in developed countries. This difference cannot...

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Knowing What Works - The Case for Rigorous Program Evaluation

Schmidt, Christoph M. - Universität <Heidelberg> / … - 1999

This paper outlines why program evaluation should follow well-respected scientific standards and why it should be …

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New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - a Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021

This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets and focussed on East Germany, this is the first study which allows to draw policy-relevant...

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Which Program for Whom?Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness ofPublic Sponsored Training Programs in Germany

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate theemployment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s.Building on the work of Sianesi (2003, 2004), we employ propensity score matching methodsin a dynamic, multiple...

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Dann warens nur noch vier Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktivenArbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch?

Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik ist im Zuge der Hartz-Reformen grundsätzlich neustrukturiert und systematisch evaluiert worden. Die vorliegenden Evaluationsberichte derersten drei Hartz-Gesetze belegen nun vielfach, welche Instrumente der aktivenArbeitsmarktpolitik sich durch ihre Wirksamkeit...

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