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Despite the fact that nonincome dimensions of well-being such as nutrition and health are now placed on the global … nutritional status as well as the factors responsible for inequalities in health and nutritional status of children and women in … the policy debate. Using Nigeria as a case study and using data from the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey, this …
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Treating the Field as a Lab: A Basic Guide to Conducting Economics Experiments for Policymaking offers economists …, researchers, and policymakers 19 basic principles for conducting experiments in developing-country contexts. In this Food Security … in Practice technical guide, Angelino Viceisza focuses on the class of economics experiments known as lablike field …
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"This study reports theory-testing laboratory experiments on the effect of yardstick competition on corruption. The … setting are tied together through the nexus of yardstick competition, suggesting that our laboratory experiments have some …
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In this paper, we argue that economists can learn a great deal from the design principles implemented in medical research. We develop a theoretical model to show the logic of adaptive sequential experiment design in the presence of uncertainty over negative effects and discuss how to choose...
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Treating the Field as a Lab: A Basic Guide to Conducting Economics Experiments for Policymaking offers economists …, researchers, and policymakers 19 basic principles for conducting experiments in developing-country contexts. In this Food Security … in Practice technical guide, Angelino Viceisza focuses on the class of economics experiments known as lablike field …
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the long run (one to five years) higher food prices reduce poverty and inequality. The magnitudes of these effects vary …
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"This paper investigates the contribution of rural non-farm income to income inequality by examining the contribution …-farm income) to income inequality in Nigeria. The results reveal the relative importance of specific income sources to income … inequality and the various determinants of income inequality in rural Nigeria. Although non-farm income is distributed more …
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"It has often been argued that new agricultural technologies lead to poverty reduction. This paper argues that any changes in poverty situation attributed to those who adopt new agricultural technology (treatment group) without a counterfactual comparison of carefully selected nonadopters...
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