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- Influence
Scaling Up What Works: Experimental Evidence on External Validity in Kenyan Education
- T. Bold, M. Kimenyi, G. Mwabu, Alice Ng’ang’a, J. Sandefur
- Political Science
- 27 March 2013
The recent wave of randomized trials in development economics has provoked criticisms regarding external validity. We investigate two concerns – heterogeneity across beneficiaries and implementers –… Expand
The Production of Child Health in Kenya: A Structural Model of Birth Weight
- G. Mwabu
- Economics
- 1 June 2008
The paper investigates birth weight and its correlates in Kenya using nationally representative data collected by the government in the early 1990s. I find that immunization of the mother against… Expand
Determinants of Poverty in Kenya: A Household Level Analysis
- A. Geda, N. D. Jong, M. Kimenyi, G. Mwabu
- Economics
- 2005
Strategies aimed at poverty reduction need to identify factors that are strongly associated with poverty and that are amenable to modification by policy. This article uses household level data… Expand
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Interventions and Institutions: Experimental Evidence on Scaling UP Education Reforms in Kenya
- G. Mwabu, T. Bold, M. Kimenyi, J. Sandefur
- Economics, Political Science
- 1 December 2018
The recent wave of randomized trials in development economics has provoked criticisms regarding external validity and the neglect of political economy. We investigate these concerns in a randomized… Expand
Health Economics for Low-Income Countries
- G. Mwabu
- Economics
- 1 May 2007
Good health is a determinant of economic growth and a component of well-being. This paper discusses and synthesizes economic models of individual and household behavior, showing how they may be used… Expand
A Situational Analysis of Poverty in Kenya
- Kimenyi, G. Mwabu, D. K. Manda, Nancy N. Nafula, P. Kimalu
- Political Science
- 2002
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Farm technology adoption in Kenya: a simultaneous estimation of inorganic fertilizer and improved maize variety adoption decisions
- M. Ogada, G. Mwabu, Diana Muchai
- Economics
- 22 July 2014
AbstractThis paper models inorganic fertilizer and improved maize varieties adoption as joint decisions. Controlling for household, plot-level, institutional and other factors, the study found that… Expand
THE DEMAND FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES: AN APPLICATION OF CONTROL FUNCTION APPROACH
- O. Ajakaiye, G. Mwabu
- Medicine, Geography
- 2007
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Decentralization and devolution in Kenya : new approaches
- M. Cifuentes, Thomas M Maina, +9 authors G. Mwabu
- Business
- 2008
- 54
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Health service pricing reforms in Kenya
- G. Mwabu, J. K. Wang'ombe
- Economics
- 1997
In December 1989, the Government of Kenya implemented cost sharing reforms in a substantial portion of public health facilities. In September 1990 the Government suspended registration fees for… Expand