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Family Planning as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Program's Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2007
decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program villages compared with the control villages by 1982, as others have … estimated in addition to fertility: women’s health, earnings and household assets, use of preventive health inputs, and finally … fertility and child mortality. This suggests social returns to this reproductive health program in rural South Asia have many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146682
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Population and Health Policies
Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2009
The literature evaluating population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines exploring biological and behavioral linkages from fetal development to chronic disease, disability, and late life mortality. The focus here is on research methods, findings, and questions that economists...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967149
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Inter-household Allocations within Extended Family: Evidence from the Indonesia Family Life Survey
Witoelar, Firman - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2005
This paper uses data from two waves of the Indonesia Family life Survey (IFLS2-1997 and IFLS3-2000) to investigate whether households that belong to the same extended families pool their income to smooth their consumption. We exploit the fact that the survey also tracks and interviews split-off...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558487
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Are Household Production Decisions Cooperative? Evidence on Pastoral Migration and Milk Sales from Northern Kenya
Doss, Cheryl R.; McPeak, John G. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2005
Market-based development efforts frequently create opportunities to generate income from goods previously produced and consumed within the household. Production within the household is often characterized by a gender and age division of labor. Market development efforts to improve well being may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357721
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Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions
Valdivia, Martin; Karlan, Dean - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2006
Can one teach entrepreneurship, or is it a fixed personal characteristic? Most academic and policy discussion on microentrepreneurs in developing countries focuses on their access to credit, and assumes their human capital to be fixed. However, a growing number of microfinance organizations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357758
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Health Economics for Low-Income Countries
Mwabu, Germano - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2007
Good health is a determinant of economic growth and a component of well-being. This paper discusses and synthesizes economic models of individual and household behavior, showing how they may be used to illuminate health policy making in low-income countries. The models could help address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738346
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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Côte D'ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices
Duflo, Esther; Udry, Christopher - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2003
transmitted to expenditures on education and food, not to expenditures on private goods. We reject the hypothesis of complete …
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Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive mHealth Sexual Information Testing Service in Uganda
Jamison, Julian; Karlan, Dean; Raffler, Pia - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2013
We evaluate the impact of a health information intervention implemented through mobile phones, using a clustered randomized control trial augmented by qualitative interviews. The intervention aimed to improve sexual health knowledge and shift individuals towards safer sexual behavior by...
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Fertility in Developing Countries
Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2007
The associations between fertility and outcomes in the family and society have been treated as causal, but this is … inaccurate if fertility is a choice coordinated by families with other life-cycle decisions, including labour supply of mothers … and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146677
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Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocuation of Family Resources: Sophie's Choice in Mao's Mass Send Down Movement
Li, Hongbin; Rosenzweig, Mark; Zhang, Junsen - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2008
In this paper, we use new survey data on twins born in urban China, among whom many experienced the consequences of the forced mass rustication movement of the Chinese “cultural revolution,” to identify the distinct roles of altruism and guilt in affecting behavior within families. Based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357724