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Education will have externality effects in agriculture if, in the course of conducting their own private economic … returns to schooling are compared. We find that there are substantial and significant externality benefits of education in …
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We report the short-term results from a randomized evaluation of a mobile phone literacy and numeracy program (Project ABC) in Niger, in which adult literacy students learned how to use mobile phones as part of a literacy and numeracy class.  Students in ABC villages showed substantial gains in...
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Using a specially designed lab-type experiment conducted in the field, we compare the willingness of head teachers, centrally appointed public servants, and community representatives to hold Ugandan primary school teachers to account.  We find no difference in the willingness of centrally...
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When European powers partitioned Africa, individuals of otherwise homogeneous communities were divided and found themselves randomly assigned to one coloniser. This provides for a natural experiment: applying a border discontinuity analysis to Ghana and Togo, we test what impact...
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maternal empowerment within the home.  We find that while father's education is positively associated with the 'one …-off' immunisation decision, mother's education is more critically associated with longer term health outcomes in OLS equations … decisions while mother's health knowledge and her empowerment within the home are the channels through which her education …
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diffusion of agricultural innovations in rural Ethiopia. We find that household-level education is important to the timing of … educated and to be copied by those who adopt later, obscuring the relationship between education and adoption at the household …-level. By contrast, site-level education appears not to affect the timing of an innovation’s introduction to the site, but …
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In 1984, the world was shocked at the scale of a famine in Ethiopia that caused over half a million deaths, making it one of the worst in recent history.  The mortality impacts are clearly significant.  But what of the survivors?  This paper provides the first estimates the long-term impact...
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This paper analyses characteristics and determinants of the recent explosion of patent filings by Chinese firms both in China and the United States.  We construct a firm-level dataset by matching USPTO and SIPO patents to Chinese manufacturing census data for the period 1999-2006.  Using this...
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The underlying motivations for envy or related social preferences and their impact on agricultural innovations are examined by combining data from money burning experimental game and household survey from Ethiopia.  In the first stage of the money burning experimental game, income inequality is...
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primarily by those with junior high school or lower levels of education.  The summary statistics indicate that those who have … heterogeneity in the returns to apprenticeship across education.  Our most conservative estimates imply that for currently employed … people, who did apprenticeships but have no formal education, the training increases their earnings by 50%.  However this …
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