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ABC, 123: Can you text me now? The Impact of a Mobile Phone Literacy Program on Educational Outcomes

Ksoll, Christopher; Aker, Jenny C.; Lybbert, Travis J. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

We report the short-term results from a randomized evaluation of a mobile phone literacy and numeracy program (Project ABC) in Niger, in which adult literacy students learned how to use mobile phones as part of a literacy and numeracy class. Students in ABC villages showed substantial gains in...

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Adoption and Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Ethiopia: The Role of Education

Knight, John; Weir, Sharada - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

diffusion of agricultural innovations in rural Ethiopia. We find that household-level education is important to the timing of … educated and to be copied by those who adopt later, obscuring the relationship between education and adoption at the household …-level. By contrast, site-level education appears not to affect the timing of an innovationââ‚¬â„¢s introduction to the site, but …

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Parental Education and Child Health - Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan

Aslam, Monasa; Kingdon, Geeta - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

maternal empowerment within the home. We find that while father's education is positively associated with the 'one …-off' immunisation decision, mother's education is more critically associated with longer term health outcomes in OLS equations … decisions while mother's health knowledge and her empowerment within the home are the channels through which her education …

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Education Externalities in Rural Ethiopia: Evidence from Average and Stochastic Frontier Production Functions

Knight, John; Weir, Sharada - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

Education will have externality effects in agriculture if, in the course of conducting their own private economic … returns to schooling are compared. We find that there are substantial and significant externality benefits of education in …

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Bidimensional Matching with Heterogeneous Preferences: Smoking in the Marriage Market

Quintana-Domeque, Climent; Chiappori, Pierre-Andre; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

equilibrium matching patterns. Using US data, we find that the observed marital sorting of smokers and non-smokers by education …

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Preferences over Leisure and Consumption of Siblings and Intra-Household Allocation

Kirchberger, Martina - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

Children are increasingly treated as active members in the household. However, their preferences over consumption and leisure are rarely modelled. This paper considers heterogeneity in siblings' preferences over leisure and consumption and builds a theoretical and empirical model for...

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From Preventive to Permissive Checks: The Changing Nature of the Malthusian Relationship Between Nuptiality and the Price of Provisions in the Nineteenth Century

Sharp, Paul; Weisdorf, Jacob - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

negative correlation between the marriage rate and the price of wheat. Other literature, however, speculates that the …

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Social Norms and Household Time Allocation

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Fernandez, Cristina - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006

Economic theories of the household predict that increases in female relative human capital lead to decreases in female housework time. However, longitudinal and cross-sectional evidence seems to contradict this implication. Women`s share of home time fails to decrease despite increases in...

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Division of Household Labor and Cross-Country Differences in Household Formation Rates

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

This paper explains the existing cross-country differences in household formation rates in industrialized countries by highlighting how an individual`s probability to form a household may be affected by social norms toward the household division of labor. Because social norms are to a large...

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Working Women, Men`s Home Time and Lowest Low Fertility

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Laat, Joost de - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Southern Europe`s rapid fertility decline has resulted in a positive cross-country correlation between female labor force participation and fertility. We develop a model with heterogeneity in attitudes towards women`s home time and a social externality associated to men`s home production to...

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