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Parental Investment in Childhood and Later Adult Well-Being: Can More Involved Parents Offset the Effects ofSocioeconomic Disadvantage?

Hango, Darcy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

involvement and the gender ofthe parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlierpoverty, especially at … age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest inschool at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education. The … frequency ofoutings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education thanoutings with father, however, neither …

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Development patterns and institutional structures : China and India

Gupta, S. P. (ed.); Gupta, Shyama Prasad (contributor); … - 1995 - 1. publ.

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Contract Duration and Investment Incentives: Evidence from Land Tenancy Agreements

Bandiera, Oriana - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This paper analyses the empirical determinants of contract length, a key andyet neglected dimension of contractual structure. I estimate contract length andcontract type jointly using original data on tenancy agreements signed between1870 and 1880 in the district of Siracusa, Italy.The findings...

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Social Networks and Technology Adoption in Northern Mozambique

Bandiera, Oriana; Rasul, Imran - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2002

This paper presents evidence on how farmers’ decisions to adopt a new crop, sunflower,relate to the adoption choices of farmers in their social network of family and friends. Weshow that the relationship is shaped as an inverse-U, suggesting social effects are positivewhen there are few...

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Land Tenure, Incentives and the Choice of Techniques: Evidence from Nicaragua.

Bandiera, Oriana - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The choice of cultivation techniques is a key determinant of agricultural productivityand has important consequences for income growth and poverty reductionin developing countries. Using household data from Nicaragua this papershows that the choice of cultivation techniques depends on farmers’...

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Contract Structure, Risk Sharing, and Investment Choice

Fischer, Greg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

Few micronance-funded businesses grow beyond subsistence entrepreneur-ship. This paper considers one possible explanation: that the structure ofexisting micronance contracts may discourage risky but high-expected returninvestments. To explore this possibility, I develop a theory that unies...

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Investment Choice and Inflation Uncertainty

Fischer, Greg - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper investigates the relationship between inflation uncertainty and the investmentdecisions of small, microfinance-funded firms in the Dominican Republic. An extensive literature documents the array of opposing factors linking inflation uncertainty and investment;ultimately this...

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Repayment Frequency in Micro nance Contracts with Present-Biased Borrowers

Fischer, Greg; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

This paper analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of high-frequency repayment, a featurein nearly all microfinance contracts that has been largely overlooked by theorists. The pervasive belief among practitioners that frequent repayment is critical in achieving high repaymentrates is puzzling....

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Public-Private Partnerships for the Provision of Public Goods: Theory and an Application to NGOs

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999

This paper analyzes the role of public and private responsibility in the provision of publicgoods. We emphasize that a typical public good will require many different inputs whichraises the possibility of partnerships to exploit comparative advantages of different parties.But hold-up problems...

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Property Rights and Economic Development

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This chapter develops a unified analytical framework, drawing on and extending the existing literatureon the subject, for studying the role of property rights in economic development. Itaddresses two fundamental and related questions concerning the relationship between propertyrights and...

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