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Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004

human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and … interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in each fostering exchange, allowing a comparison of foster children …

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Microfinance Games

Karlan, Dean; Gine, Xavier; Morduch, Jonathan; Jakiela, … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2006

Microfinance has been heralded as an effective way to address imperfections in credit markets. From a theoretical perspective, however, the success of microfinance contracts has puzzling elements. In particular, the group-based mechanisms often employed are vulnerable to free-riding and...

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Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2005

Researchers often assume household structure is exogenous, but child fostering, the institution in which parents send … this assumption. Using data I collected in Burkina Faso, I analyze a household's decision to adjust its size and … composition through fostering. A household fosters children as a risk-coping mechanism in response to exogenous income shocks, if …

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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana

Karlan, Dean; Berry, James; Pradhan, Menno - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2015

We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only offered financial education. Both programs included a...

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Labor Supply, Schooling and the Returns to Healthcare in Tanzania

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2011

heterogeneous effects on marginal productivity across productive activities and household members. …

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Labor Complementarities and Health in the Agricultural Household

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2011

Models of the agricultural household have traditionally relied on assumptions regarding the complementarity or … pattern of labor supply adjustments across household members and productive activities following acute sickness. In particular …, we find that sick and healthy household members both shift labor away from self-employment and into farming when the sick …

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Health and Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Taiwan

Mete, Cem; Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2002

Estimates are reported of the consequences of health on participation in the labor force of elderly men and women in Taiwan from 1989 to 1996. Three survey indicators of individual health are examined, and two are estimated by instrumental variables (IV), using as instruments parent longevity,...

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Fertility, Child Work and Schooling Consequences of Family Planning Programs: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Bangladesh

Sinha, Nistha - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2003

Despite the attractiveness of experiments from the perspective of program evaluation, there have been very few program experiments in the area of family planning. This paper evaluates an ongoing family planning program experiment in rural Bangladesh. The paper estimates the effect of mothers'...

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Aging, Immigration and Women in the Labor Force: Japan Compared to Other OECD Countries.

Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1995

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Female Schooling, Non-Market Productivity, and Labor Market Participation in Nigeria

Aromolaran, Adebayo B. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004

Economists have argued that increasing female schooling positively influences the labor supply of married women by inducing a faster rise in market productivity relative to non-market productivity. I use the Nigerian Labor Force Survey to investigate how own and husband's schooling affect...

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