Disruptions to healthcare quality and early child health outcomes: Evidence from health-worker strikes in Kenya

Autor: Willa, Friedman, Anthony, Keats, Martin Kavao, Mutua

Publikováno v: Journal of Health Economics. 86:102694

This paper measures the effects of disruptions to healthcare quality at birth on early child health outcomes in Kenya. To identify impacts, we exploit variation in the timing and location of health-worker strikes at individual hospitals across the co

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102694

Women's schooling, fertility, and child health outcomes: Evidence from Uganda's free primary education program

Autor: Anthony Keats

Publikováno v: Journal of Development Economics. 135:142-159

This paper examines the role of women's education on both fertility and child health in Uganda. To identify causal effects, I exploit the timing of a national reform that eliminated primary school fees in 1997 to implement a regression discontinuity

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.07.002

The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya

Autor: Anthony Keats, Jonathan Robinson, Pascaline Dupas

Publikováno v: Dupas, Pascaline; Keats, Anthony; & Robinson, Jonathan. (2016). The Effect of Savings Accounts on Interpersonal Financial Relationships: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural Kenya. UC Berkeley: Center for Effective Global Action. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/3524t5vb

The welfare impact of expanding access to bank accounts depends on whether accounts crowd out pre-existing financial relationships, or whether private gains from accounts are shared within social networks. In this experiment, we provided free bank ac

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Challenges in banking the rural poor: evidence from Kenya’s Western Province

Autor: Pascaline Dupas, Anthony Keats, Jonathan Robinson, Sarah Green

Most people in rural Africa do not have bank accounts. Without a safe place to save up money, it may be very difficult for people to take advantage of high-return investments of many types. Likewise, without a safe place to keep an emergency cash buf

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https://doi.org/10.23846/ow1006

Challenges in Banking the Rural Poor: Evidence from Kenya's Western Province

Autor: Pascaline Dupas, Sarah Green, Anthony Keats, Jonathan Robinson

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http://www.nber.org/chapters/c13363.pdf