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context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their …
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This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …
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Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated … missionary schools from Kenya's colonial past, as well as geographical indicators such as rainfall, changes in forest cover, and …
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factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of early death, it is argued, may have … early death and youth crime, this support remains tentative. Moreover, a number of questions remain regarding the … that link anticipated early death to youth crime. In this paper, we address the limitations of previous studies using a …
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We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities related to the acquisition of human capital,...
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Nairobi, we conduct an experiment with 424 married couples. In the experiment, the spouses (individually and jointly …
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present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions …
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We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...
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experiment (deworming) that has exogenously boosted education and living standards. The main finding is that the program reduces …
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Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has been generally found for other developing and developed nations, that apart from observable worker...
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