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Ethnic heterogeneity and public goods provision in Zambia: Further evidence of a subnational 'diversity dividend'

Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Leiderer, Stefan; … - 2014

The hypothesis that ethnic diversity has a negative impact on public goods provision is widely accepted. Notably, most work on this issue fails to distinguish adequately between national versus subnational governance. We find that subnational empirical evidence in particular is inconclusive, and...

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Donor coordination for effective government policies? Implementation of the new aid effectiveness agenda in health and education in Zambia

Leiderer, Stefan - 2013

growth and poverty reduction, but also on intermediate outcomes such as health and education. This paper reviews evidence … from recent in-depth country work on the impact of government policies and service provision in health and basic education …

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Measuring government performance in public opinion surveys in Africa: Towards experiments?

Bratton, Michael - 2013

precision of results generated by public opinion surveys. Survey research on basic health and education services sub …

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On the impact of inequality on growth, human development, and governance

Ferreira, Ines A.; Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Tarp, Finn - 2021

outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …

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Choices for spending government revenue: New African oil, gas, and mining economies

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health and education by new oil and gas revenues, and what other uses of those revenues are likely to arise. The paper argues …

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Fifty years of Asian experience in the spread of education and healthcare

Mundle, Sudipto - 2018

This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …

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Health consequences of sterilizations

De La Rupelle, Maëlys; Dumas, Christelle - 2017

One-third of married women are sterilized in India. This is largely due to family planning programs that put a strong emphasis on 'permanent' contraceptive methods rather than temporary ones. However, little is known about potential adverse effects on women's wellbeing. We analyse the...

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Human capital and social mobility in low- and middle-income countries

Behrman, Jere R. - 2019

Parental human capital and endowments may affect children's human capital, which in turn may affect children's earning and occupations and thus affect social mobility. This paper focuses on what we know about these possible links in low- and middle-income countries. It starts with definitions of...

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Searching for religious discrimination among Anganwadi workers in India: An experimental investigation

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Singh, Prakarsh - 2016

This paper examines whether, in India, discriminatory practices by government-employed child caregivers along religious lines, lead to differential health outcomes among the care receiving children. Child caregivers participate in a novel allocation game where we incorporate treatments to...

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