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Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes?: Evidence from household panel data in UgandaEmpirical studies on the effectiveness of aid to the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector (WASH aid) have focused primarily on access to these services as the benchmark for evaluating the effectiveness of aid in this sector...
Aid effectiveness Public health WaterJournal Article
Finance, gender and entrepreneurship: India’s informal sector firmsPart of Journal Special Issue What sustains informality
Entrepreneurship Financial constraints GenderWorking Paper
Estimating employment responses to South Africa’s Employment Tax IncentiveWe present new evidence on the effects of South Africa’s Employment Tax Incentive (ETI), a hiring and employment wage subsidy aimed at reducing youth unemployment...
Difference-in-differences Employment event studySeminar
Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna on difference-in-differences with multiple time periodsOn 23 June Professor Sant'Anna presents an online seminar discussing his new paper: Difference-in-differences with multiple time periods . Abstract In this article, we consider identification, estimation, and inference procedures for treatment...
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The socioeconomic impact of coal mining in MozambiqueThis study assesses the impact of four coal mines in Mozambique on the socioeconomic outcomes of the local population. We combine four waves of household surveys with coal mine locations data and employ a difference-in-difference model...
Mining Difference-in-differences PovertyWorking Paper
Ban on female migrant workers: Skills-differentiated evidence from Sri LankaThis study examines the skills-differentiated impact of a restrictive female labour migration policy in Sri Lanka using monthly departure data from 2012 to 2018 in a difference-in-difference model...
Labour migration Employment WomenWorking Paper
Agricultural input subsidy and farmers outcomes in TanzaniaThis paper examines the impact of the government input subsidy—the National Agriculture Input Voucher—on farmers’ production and welfare in Tanzania as well as the factors that influence agricultural production in the country...
Difference-in-differences Subsidies ProductionWorking Paper
Finance, gender, and entrepreneurship: India’s informal sector firmsHow does informal economic activity respond to increased financial inclusion? Does it become more entrepreneurial?...
Entrepreneurship Financial constraints GenderJournal Article
Vulnerability to natural shocks: Assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in MozambiqueMozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood occurred in the central-northern region of the country in the first few months of 2015, causing huge damage to infrastructures...
Welfare impact Flood Difference-in-differencesJournal Article
Educational Assistance and Education Quality in Indonesia: The Role of DecentralizationPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Decentralization Education transfer Education qualityWorking Paper
Vulnerability to natural shocks: Assessing the short-term impact on consumption and poverty of the 2015 flood in MozambiqueMozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood occurred in the central-northern region of the country in the first few months of 2015, causing huge damage to infrastructures...
Welfare impact Flood Difference-in-differencesWorking Paper
Educational assistance and education quality in Indonesia: The role of decentralizationWe examine the evolution of educational assistance in Indonesia, following two decades of government decentralization, and its effect on education quality...
Decentralization Education transfer Education quality