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- Björkman Nyqvist, Martina
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Income shocks and gender gaps in education : Evidence from Uganda
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Development Economics. - : Elsevier. - 0304-3878. ; 105, s. 237-253
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper uses exogenous variation in rainfall across districts in Uganda to estimate the causal effects of household income shocks on children's enrollment and academic performance conditional on gender. I find negative deviations in rainfall from the long-term mean to have negative and highly significant effects on female enrollment in primary schools and the effect grows stronger for older girls. I find no effect of rainfall variation on the enrollment of boys and young girls. Moreover, I find that when schooling is free of charge and both marginal boys and girls are enrolled, a negative income shock has an adverse effect on the test scores of female students while boys are not affected. The results imply that households respond to income shocks by varying the amount of schooling and resources provided to girls while boys are to a large extent sheltered - a finding consistent with a model where parents' values of child labor differ across sexes.
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- Svensson, Jakob, et al.
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Information is Power : Experimental Evidence in the Long-Run Impact of Community Based Monitoring
- 2014
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Ingår i: Policy Research Working Papers. - Washington, D.C. : World Bank. - 1813-9450.
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper presents the results of two field experiments onlocal accountability in primary health care in Uganda. Effortsto stimulate beneficiary control, coupled with the provisionof report cards on staff performance, resulted in significantimprovements in health care delivery and health outcomesin both the short and the longer run. Efforts to stimulatebeneficiary control without providing information onperformance had no impact on quality of care or health outcomes.The paper shows that informed users are more likelyto identify and challenge (mis)behavior by providers and as aresult turn their focus to issues that they can manage locally.
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- Svensson, Jakob, et al.
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Local Accountability Improves Health Services
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Ingår i: Institutional Microeconomics of Development. - Mass. : MIT Press. - 9780262014069
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