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Richard Akresh

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Economics
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Armed conflict and schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan genocide

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R Akresh… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: To examine the impact of Rwanda's 1994 genocide on children's schooling, the
authors combine two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the
genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age group's ...
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Health and civil war in rural Burundi

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T Bundervoet, P Verwimp… - Journal of Human Resources, 2009 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract We combine household survey data with event data on the timing and location of
armed conflicts to examine the impact of Burundi's civil war on children's health status. The
identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the war's timing across provinces ...
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Risk, network quality, and family structure: child fostering decisions in Burkina Faso

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R Akresh - IZA Discussion Paper No. 1471; Yale University …, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Researchers often assume household structure is exogenous, but child fostering,
the institution in which parents send their biological children to live with another family, is
widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and provides evidence against this assumption. Using ...
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Civil war, crop failure, and child stunting in Rwanda

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R Akresh, P Verwimp… - 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Economic shocks at birth have lasting effects on children's health several years
after the shock. The authors calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five
using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey conducted in ...
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Adjusting household structure: school enrollment impacts of child fostering in Burkina Faso

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R Akresh - Economic Growth Center discussion paper, 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Researchers claim that children growing up away from their biological parents may
be at a disadvantage and have lower human capital investment. This paper measures the
impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and child fixed effects ...
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Flexibility of Household Structure

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R Akresh - Journal of Human Resources, 2009 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract Using data I collected in Africa, this paper examines a household's decision to
adjust its size through child fostering, an institution where biological parents temporarily
send children to live with other families. Households experiencing negative idiosyncratic ...
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Civil war, crop failure, and the health status of young children

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R Akresh… - 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children's health several years
after the shock. We calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data
from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey conducted in 1992. We ...
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[PDF] School enrollment impacts of non-traditional household structure

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R Akresh - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, …, 2007 - netfiles.uiuc.edu
Abstract Children growing up away from their biological parents may experience lower
human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school
enrollment using fixed effects regressions to address the endogeneity of fostering. Data ...
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[BOOK] Health and civil war in rural Burundi

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T Bundervoet, P Verwimp, R Akresh… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper combines household survey data with event data on the timing and
location of armed conflicts to examine the impact of Burundi's civil war on children's health
status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the war's timing across ...
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Understanding Pareto inefficient intrahousehold allocations

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R Akresh - IZA Discussion Paper No. 1858, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Udry (1996) uses household survey data and finds that the allocation of resources
within households is Pareto inefficient, contradicting the main assumption of most collective
models of intrahousehold bargaining. He finds that among plots planted with the same ...
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Child ability and household human capital investment decisions in Burkina Faso

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R Akresh, E Bagby, D De Walque… - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children's
cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their
education. We use a direct measure of child ability for all primary school-aged children, ...
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[CITATION] Efficiency in intrahousehold allocations

R Akresh - 2008 - … Urbana, USA, University of Illinois at …
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[CITATION] kSurvey and Tracking Methodology, Fieldwork Definitions, and Project Overview. l Yale University

R Akresh - 2004 - Ph. D. Dissertation
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[CITATION] Crop failure, civil war and child stunting in Rwanda

R Akresh, P Verwimp… - Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011
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[BOOK] Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict

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R Akresh, L Lucchetti… - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in
an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's
health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to exploit exogenous ...
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[PDF] Health and civil war in rural Burundi

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T Bundervoet, P Verwimp… - IZA Discussion Papers, 2007 - ecares.org
Abstract We combine household survey data with event data on the timing and location of
armed conflicts to examine the impact of Burundi's civil war on children's health status. The
identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the war's timing across provinces ...
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[CITATION] (In) Efficiency in Intrahousehold Allocations.” IZA Discussion Paper No. 1858

R Akresh - 2008
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[CITATION] Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children

A Richard… - 2006 - … in Conflict Network (www. hicn. org)
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[PDF] Altruism, Cooperation and Intrahousehold Allocation: Agricultural Production in Polygynous Households

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R Akresh, JJ Chen… - 2011 - aae.wisc.edu
Abstract Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by
increasing the utility that players expect to receive in a non-cooperative equilibrium. To test
this, we examine agricultural productivity in polygynous households in West Africa. We ...
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[CITATION] Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso

R Akresh, NQ Risk - 2004 - pBREAD Working Paper
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[CITATION] de Walque Damien (2008)” Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandian Genocide”

A Richard - IZA Discussion Paper
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Residential Rivalry and Constraints on the Availability of Child Labor

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R Akresh… - 2011 - nber.org
We consider the influence of household-based production on human capital investment. In
data from rural Burkina Faso, we document a positive correlation between the presence of
girls and enrollment that disappears in households that are able to send out or receive in ...
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[CITATION] Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in

R Akresh - 2004 - Burkina Faso
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[CITATION] Are the ICRISAT Villages Representative of Burkina Faso? A Study of Pareto Inefficient Intra-Household Allocations

R Akresh - unpublished, Yale University, 1999
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[CITATION] Flexibility of household structure: Child fostering decisions in

R Akresh - 2007
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[CITATION] VUnderstanding Pareto Ineffi cient Household Allocations

R Akresh - 1858 - V IZA Discussion Paper
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Using achievement tests to measure language assimilation and language bias among the children of immigrants

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R Akresh… - Journal of Human Resources, 2011 - jhr.uwpress.org
Abstract We measure the extent of language assimilation among children of Hispanic
immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits test language randomization (English or
Spanish) of Woodcock Johnson achievement tests in the New Immigrant Survey and lets ...
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[PDF] The endogeneity of household structure: Child fostering decisions in Burkina Faso

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R Akresh - Journal of Human Resources, 2006 - netfiles.uiuc.edu
Abstract Researchers often assume household structure is exogenous, but child fostering,
the institution in which parents send their biological children to live with another family, is
widespread in sub $ Saharan Africa and provides evidence against this assumption. ...
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Productive Efficiency and the Scope for Cooperation in Polygynous Households

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R Akresh, JJ Chen, CT Moore - American Journal of …, 2012 - ajae.oxfordjournals.org
1. We thank Christopher Udry for generously providing his ICRISAT data files. This article
was presented in an invited paper session at the 2011 ASSA annual meeting in Denver, CO.
The articles in these sessions are not subjected to the journal's standard refereeing ...
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War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War

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R Akresh, SR Bhalotra, M Leone… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-
dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa,
the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using ...
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[BOOK] The Analytical Returns to Measuring a Detailed Household Roster

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R Akresh… - 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Households are dynamic while most surveys only collect information on individuals
who are present at a single point in time. We exploit a unique and thorough household
membership enumeration in Burkina Faso to consider the analytical costs of the typical ...
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[PDF] Department of Economics University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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R Akresh - 2008 - netfiles.uiuc.edu
Abstract Previous research using plot-level agricultural data from Burkina Faso found that
the allocation of resources within African households was Pareto inefficient, contradicting
most collective models of intrahousehold bargaining. I provide an explanation for these ...
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[CITATION] Civil war, crop failure and the health status of young children

P Verwimp, R Akresh… - 2007 - ir.anet.ua.ac.be
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[PDF] H i CN Households in Conflict Network

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R Akresh… - 2008 - hicn.org
Abstract: To examine the impact of Rwanda's 1994 genocide on children's schooling, the
authors combine two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the
genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age group's ...
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[BOOK] Flexibility of household structure| Economic motivations and consequences of child fostering in Burkina Faso

RS Akresh - 2005 - gradworks.umi.com
UMI. ProQuest® Dissertations & Theses The world's most comprehensive collection
of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest. Flexibility of household structure:
Economic motivations and consequences of child fostering ...
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Using Achievement Tests to Measure Language Assimilation and Language Bias among Immigrant Children

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R Akresh… - 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We use Woodcock Johnson III child assessment data in the New Immigrant Survey
to examine language assimilation and test score bias among children of Hispanic
immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits the test language randomization (Spanish ...
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Civil War, Crop Failure, And Child Stunting In Rwanda

T Bundervoet, P Verwimp… - Research Working papers, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Economic shocks at birth have lasting effects on children's health several years
after the shock. The authors calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five
using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey conducted in ...
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Child labor, schooling, and child ability

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R Akresh, E Bagby, D De Walque… - 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Using data collected in rural Burkina Faso, this paper examines how children's
cognitive abilities influence households' decisions to invest in their education. To address
the endogeneity of child ability measures, the analysis usesrainfall shocks experienced in ...
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Alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms: impacts on routine preventative health clinic visits in Burkina Faso

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R Akresh, D De Walque… - 2012 - nber.org
We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash
transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services
in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that ...
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[PDF] Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Illness and Health Clinic Utilization in Burkina Faso

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R Akresh, D de Walque… - 2011 - nber.org
Abstract We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of
alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for health services in
rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that ...
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Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso PDF Logo

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R Akresh - 2004 - econstor.eu
Zusammenfassung: Researchers claim that children growing up away from their biological
parents may be at a disadvantage and have lower human capital investment. This paper
measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and ...
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The Impact of Violent Conflict on Child Health: What Are the Channels?

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P Verwimp, T Bundervoet… - MICROCON Policy Briefing …, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Child health during and after violent conflicts has been a priority for both
policymakers and academics, as ill-health in early life can be impossible to make up for in
later life, and has important effects on education and adult wages. In order for policy ...
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Child Ability And Household Human Capital Investment Decisions In Burkina Faso

H Kazianga, E Bagby, R Akresh… - 2010 - elibrary.worldbank.org
Using data they collected in rural Burkina Faso, the authors examine how children's
cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their
education. This paper uses a direct measure of child ability for all primary school-aged ...
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Altruism, Cooperation, and Efficiency: Agricultural Production in Polygynous Households

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R Akresh, J Chen… - 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by
increasing the utility that players expect to receive in a non-cooperative equilibrium. To test
this, we examine agricultural productivity in polygynous households in West Africa. We ...
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[PDF] Risk and Schooling in Family N etworks when Children are Mobile

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R Akresh… - 2009 - siteresources.worldbank.org
Poor individuals in low income economies face a variety of risks from their health, their
economy, and their environment. A large literature documents that part of this risk can be
managed, perhaps inefficiently, through a combination of self and mutual insurance ...
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