Nancy Luke,Kaivan Munshi
Nancy Luke
Economic globalization will give many women in developing countries access to steady and relatively remunerative employment for the first time, potentially shifting bargaining power within their households and changing the choices that are ...
Dietrich Vollrath
Dietrich Vollrath
This paper brings together development accounting techniques and the dual economy model to address the role that factor markets have in creating variation in aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). Development accounting research has sho...
Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict [0.03%]
战争与儿童健康：来自埃塞俄比亚和厄立特里亚冲突的证据
Richard Akresh,Leonardo Lucchetti,Harsha Thirumurthy
Richard Akresh
Conflict between and within countries can have lasting health and economic consequences, but identifying such effects can be empirically challenging. This paper uses household survey data from Eritrea to estimate the effect of exposure to t...
A Comparison of EPI Sampling, Probability Sampling, and Compact Segment Sampling Methods for Micro and Small Enterprises [0.03%]
企业抽样方法比较研究——以小微企业为例
Li-Wei Chao,Helena Szrek,Karl Peltzer et al.
Li-Wei Chao et al.
Finding an efficient method for sampling micro- and small-enterprises (MSEs) for research and statistical reporting purposes is a challenge in developing countries, where registries of MSEs are often nonexistent or outdated. This lack of a ...
Measuring the Return on Household Enterprise: What Matters Most for Whom? [0.03%]
家庭创业的收益评估——什么因素对谁最重要？
Krislert Samphantharak,Robert M Townsend
Krislert Samphantharak
Return on assets (ROA) from household enterprise is crucial for understanding the well-being and productivity of households in developing economies. Yet the definition and measurement of household enterprise ROA remain inconsistent or uncle...
The Intergenerational Effects of Paternal Migration on Schooling and Work: What Can We Learn from Children's Time Allocations? [0.03%]
父辈迁移对子女教育和工作的影响：我们能从孩子的时间分配中学到什么？
Francisca M Antman
Francisca M Antman
This paper explores the short-run effects of a father's U.S. migration on his children's schooling and work outcomes in Mexico. To get around the endogeneity of paternal migration, I use individual fixed effects and instrumental variables e...
Parental Compensatory Behaviors and Early Child Health Outcomes in Cebu, Philippines() [0.03%]
菲律宾宿务儿童健康结果与父母代偿行为的关系
Haiyong Liu,Thomas Mroz,Linda Adair
Haiyong Liu
A dynamic optimization model of parents choosing investments in their children's health motivates an empirical model of parents' choices of health inputs for their children and the impacts of these decisions on their children's subsequent h...
Susan Godlonton,Rebecca Thornton
Susan Godlonton
How do neighbors positively or negatively influence individuals living in rural Malawi to learn their HIV results? Using data of location of homes and distance to neighbors, we measure the social network effects of neighbors' learning their...
Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa [0.03%]
教育之赌注：南非城市地区的学业进步差异及其种族差距
David Lam,Cally Ardington,Murray Leibbrandt
David Lam
This paper analyzes the large racial differences in progress through secondary school in South Africa. Using recently collected longitudinal data we find that grade advancement is strongly associated with scores on a baseline literacy and n...
Effects of Economic Shocks on Children's Employment and Schooling in Brazil [0.03%]
经济冲击对巴西儿童就业和上学的影响
Suzanne Duryea,David Lam,Deborah Levison
Suzanne Duryea
This paper uses longitudinal employment survey data to analyze the impact of household economic shocks on the schooling and employment transitions of young people in metropolitan Brazil. The paper uses data on over 100,000 children ages 10-...