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Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation

Ding, Sai; Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

The paper estimates cross-province growth regressions for China over the period of economic reform. It first addresses … General-to-Specific approach, to consider a wide range of candidate predictors of growth in China. The first-stage model … question: why has China, as a whole, and indeed all its provinces, grown so fast? …

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Parental Education and Child Health - Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan

Aslam, Monasa; Kingdon, Geeta - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

This study investigates the relationship between parental schooling on the one hand, and child health outcomes (height and weight) and parental health-seeking behaviour (immunisation status of children), on the other. While establishing a correlational link between parental schooling and child...

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ABC, 123: Can you text me now? The Impact of a Mobile Phone Literacy Program on Educational Outcomes

Ksoll, Christopher; Aker, Jenny C.; Lybbert, Travis J. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

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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Education Externalities in Rural Ethiopia: Evidence from Average and Stochastic Frontier Production Functions

Knight, John; Weir, Sharada - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

Education will have externality effects in agriculture if, in the course of conducting their own private economic activities, educated farmers raise the productivity of uneducated farmers with whom they come into contact. This paper seeks to determine the potential size and source of such...

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Adoption and Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Ethiopia: The Role of Education

Knight, John; Weir, Sharada - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

Schooling has been shown to provide substantial externality benefits by increasing farm output and shifting the production frontier outwards. This paper investigates the role of schooling at the household- and site-levels in the adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in rural...

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Does Social Judgement Diminish Rule Breaking?

Salmon, Timothy C.; Serra, Danila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

We experimentally investigate the extent to which social obervability of one's actions and the possibility of social non-monetary judgment affect the decision to engage in rule breaking behavior. We consider three rule bfeaking scenarios - theft, bribery and embezzlement - in the absence of...

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Land Encroachment: India`s Disappearing Common Lands

Robinson, Elizabeth - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

Opportunist land encroachment, resulting from costly and incomplete enforcement of common land boundaries, is a problem in many less-developed countries. A multi-period model of such encroachment is presented in this paper. The model accounts explicitly for the cumulative effects of...

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Crime, Isolation, and Law Enforcement

Fafchamps, Marcel; Moser, Christine - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

This paper investigates the relationship between criminal activity and geographical isolation. Using data from Madagascar, we show that, after we control for population composition and risk factors, crime increases with distance from urban centers and, with few exceptions, decreases with...

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Competition in Bureaucracy and Corruption

Drugov, Mikhail - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

This paper studies the consequences of introducing competition between bureaucrats. Bureaucrats are supposed to grant licences to firms that satisfy certain requirements. Firms have to invest into satisfying these requirements. Some bureaucrats are corrupt, that is, they give the licence to any...

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Are "Gangstas" Peacocks? The Handicap Principle and Illicit Markets

Mell, Andrew - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

Criminals who wear gang colors are acting in a surprisingly brazen way which must increase the probability of being caught and punished by the police. In our model this brazen behavior is a solution to an enforcement problem. The central idea is that less able criminals see lower gains from...

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