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Publikováno v:
The Journal of Development Studies. :1-19
Publikováno v:
Economic Development and Cultural Change. 68:165-188
Microinsurers strive to simplify products and their pricing, a trend that runs counter to the customization and complex underwriting of insurance in richer markets. While necessary to reduce costs and reach wide scale, this trend opens microinsurance
Autor:
Amy L. Damon, Aine Seitz McCarthy
Publikováno v:
Agricultural Economics. 50:527-542
Women make important contributions to household food production in sub‐Saharan Africa. Women's agricultural productivity is often reduced, however, by inefficient intrahousehold allocation of agricultural resources. Complex marital structures found
Publikováno v:
Review of Education. 7:295-387
Publikováno v:
Journal of Development Effectiveness. 9:443-461
Bundling micro-insurance with loans should help not only decrease costs and therefore increase take-up but may also decrease financial inclusion if the insurance and/or loan are refused. We implement a randomised control trial in which a voluntary cr
Autor:
Amy L. Damon, Disa Hynsjö
Publikováno v:
Economics of Education Review. 53:116-132
This study uses the Peruvian Young Lives International Study of Childhood Poverty's School Level data to investigate the effect of Quechua-medium instruction on academic achievement. We find that Indigenous children who attend Quechua-medium schools
Autor:
Amy L. Damon, Natalie Kronebusch
Publikováno v:
Economics and human biology. 33
In this paper, we study the effect of Progresa, a conditional cash transfer program in Mexico, on the micronutrient and macronutrient consumption levels of program participants. Overall, we find that Progresa has a complicated effect on nutrition out
Migration responses to adverse household shocks: do family relationships and types of shocks matter?
Autor:
Amy L. Damon, Suzanne L.W. Wisniewski
Publikováno v:
Migration and Development. 4:4-22
This paper estimates how family relationships between migrants and their households affect migration and remittance responses to three different household shocks: an earthquake, the death of a family member, and livestock death. Using agricultural ho
Autor:
Devon Kristiansen, Amy L. Damon
Publikováno v:
Agricultural Economics. 45:711-727
This article estimates the effect of international migration from Mexico to the United States on the obesity status of children who remain in Mexico. Theory suggests that increased liquidity as well as changing time allocations resulting from migrati
Publikováno v:
Review of Education. 7:388-389