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capital among rural women's groups in western Kenya. The program increased turnover among group members. It increased entry …
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We apply this method to a World Bank development project in Kenya. Our evidence is consistent with higher levels of …
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In 2007, approximately one in five children in Zambia lived with an HIV positive adult. We identify the effect of adult …
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the rapid expansion of access to PMTCT in Zambia during the period 2000-2007 and provides some of the first evidence on …
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treatment of HIV/AIDS. Many supply- and demand-side factors in sub-Saharan Africa could cause smaller than expected … effect of at scale drug provision in a poor country, using the phased roll-out of ART in Zambia, a setting where …
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A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls' dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government's HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...
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I use a randomized experiment to test whether information can change sexual behavior among teenagers in Kenya …
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HIV/AIDS, but very little is known about the impact of this intervention on the welfare of children in the households of … household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya. We find that children's weekly hours …
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We examine the effect of HIV/AIDS infection risks on the earnings of registered nurses (RNs) and other health care … workers by combining data on metropolitan statistical area (MSA) AIDS prevalence rates with annual 1987 --2001 Current … wages of control groups that are likely not exposed to AIDS risks and group-specific MSA fixed effects, a 10 percent …
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Employment growth could reduce violence during civil conflicts. To determine if increased employment affects violence we analyzed varying employment in development programs run by different US military divisions in Iraqi districts. Employment levels vary with funding periods and the military...
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