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Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University., 2012-05-08)
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of ...
Reflections on the Jesuit Mission to China
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
With the explosive growth of transnational dealings, professionals in developed countries have expanding opportunities to spread their particular ways of doing things around the world. However, missionary work, whether ...
Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Conditional Cash Transfer Programme
(Routledge, 2010)
This paper summarizes the findings of an evaluation of the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), a conditional cash transfer programme implemented by the Government of Jamaica. We find that PATH was ...
Closing the Gender Gap in Education: Does it Foretell the Closing of the Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood Gaps?
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
In this paper we examine several dimensions of gender disparity for a sample of 40 countries using micro-level data. We start by documenting the reversal of the gender education gap and ranking countries by the year in ...
Informal Taxation
(American Economic Association, 2011)
Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing
countries. We use microdata from ten countries to establish stylized facts on the magnitude,
form, and distributional implications ...
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the US Border
(2009)
We estimate the “place premium”—the wage gain that accrues to foreign workers who arrive to work in the United States. First, we estimate the predicted, purchasing-power adjusted wages of people inside and outside the ...
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Examining the Extent and Implications of Low Persistence in Child Learning
(2009)
Learning persistence plays a central role in models of skill formation, estimates of education production functions, and evaluations of educational programs. In non-experimental settings, estimated impacts of educational ...
Social Policy in Development: Coherence and Cooperation in the Real World
(School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
Ideas about social policy and its role in development have shifted over time, signaling the difficulty of finding clarity in approaches to social investment, poverty alleviation, and equity. In consequence, research and ...
“Schooling Can’t Buy Me Love”: Marriage, Work, and the Gender Education Gap in Latin America
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
In this paper we establish six stylized facts related to marriage and work in Latin America and present a simple model to account for them. First, skilled women are less likely to be married than unskilled women. Second, ...
A New Era for Justice Sector Reform in Haiti
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)
In the months before the January earthquake, Haiti and its criminal justice institutions were the subject of an unprecedented effort by two UN agencies to measure the state of the Rule of Law. Drawing on the results of ...