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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? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047864
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004239
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004442
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011146242
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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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Reputation in the Market for Stolen Data
Mell, Andrew - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
Internet commerce has made it easier to compare prices and shop online.  However, it has also exposed consumers to a new kind of crime in the form of the electronic theft of payment details.  However the skills required to successfully intercept payment data differ from the skills required to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133067
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Is There a Market for Peerages? Can Donations Buy You a British Peerage? A Study in the Link Between Party Political Funding and Peerage Nominations, 2005-14
Mell, Andrew; Radford, Simon; Thevoz, Seth Alexander - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2015
Trust in political institutions has declined across developed democracies.  One of the main reasons cited for this lack of trust in public opinion polls has been the role of money in politics.  The Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and McCutcheon, amongst others, have increased the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206920
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047806
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090667