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Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

estimating a model for the joint determination of wages of women and of their potential husbands, the probability that women are …

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Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle

Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2014

We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of … the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting … stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can exacerbate the negative impact of adverse weather on harvest-stage wages …

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Supervision and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Rice Farms in Bicol, the Philippines.

Evenson, R.E.; Kimhi, A.; DeSilva, S. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

In this paper, we analyze supervision activities reported in a cross-section survey of rice farmers in the Bicol region of the Philippines. This survey is unique because it provides supervision data at the farm task level. We present a simple optimization model in which supervision intensity...

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Supervision and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Rice Farms in Bicol, the Philippines

Evenson, Robert E.; Kimhi, Ayal; DeSilva, Sanjaya - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000

Labor markets in all economies are subject to transaction costs associated with recruiting, monitoring and supervising workers. Rural labor markets in developing economies, where institutions such as labor and contract law and formal employment assistance mechanisms are not in place, are...

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Labor Supply, Schooling and the Returns to Healthcare in Tanzania

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2011

We estimate the effects of higher quality healthcare usage on health, labor supply and schooling outcomes for sick individuals in Tanzania. Using exogenous variation in the cost of formal sector healthcare to predict treatment choice, we show that using better quality care improves health...

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Labor Complementarities and Health in the Agricultural Household

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2011

Models of the agricultural household have traditionally relied on assumptions regarding the complementarity or substitutability of family labor inputs. We show how data on time allocations, health shocks and corresponding treatment choices can be used to test these assumptions. Data from...

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Cairo Evaluation Clinic: Thoughts on Randomized Trials for Evaluation of Development

Karlan, Dean - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2009

We were asked to discuss specific methodological approaches to evaluating three hypothetical interventions. This article uses this forum to discuss three misperceptions about randomized trials. First, nobody argues that randomized trials are appropriate in all settings, and for all questions....

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Bringing "Honest Capital" to Poor Borrowers: The Passage of the Uniform Small Loan Law, 1907-1930

Carruthers, Bruce G.; Guinnane, Timothy W.; Lee, Yoonseok - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2009

The Uniform Small Loan Law (USLL) was the Russell Sage Foundation’s primary device for fighting what it viewed as the scourge of high-rate lending to poor people in the first half of the twentieth century. The USLL created a new class of lenders who could make small loans at interest rates...

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Income Inequality in Taiwan 197601995: Changing Family Composition, Aging, and Female Labour Force Participation

Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997

Change in income inequality in Taiwan from 1964 to 1995 is sensitive to how household incomes are adjusted for household composition. The reasonable practice of dividing household income by persons (or adults) in the household eliminates the widely noted increase in income inequality from 1980...

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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

Meghir, Costas; Attanasio, Orazio; Cattan, Sarah; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2015

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...

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