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attainment that resulted from an intensive distribution of iodized oil capsules (IOC) in Tanzania. We look for evidence of … estimated effect on education. Cross-country regression estimates corroborate the results from Tanzania, indicating a strong …
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Tourism is a tradable service activity that could allow some African countries to generate significant growth. Tanzania …, Tanzania receives very few tourists and revenues from tourism. To explore the determinants of this performance, I conduct an … that hotels in the safari area in Tanzania are more expensive than comparable hotels, and that this difference in price …
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rich panel data from farms in Tanzania and Uganda, we estimate our model using a flexible specification in which we allow …
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The purpose of this article is to study the effect of education on labor market participation and household consumption in a rural environment. The Tanzanian Universal Primary Education (UPE) program, which provides variations in education across locations and over time, is used as a natural...
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We use a field experiment in Tanzania to compare the effectiveness on learning of two teacher performance pay systems …
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In this paper, we quantify market access in rural Tanzania, and the extent to which it constrains agricultural …,183 villages in two regions of Tanzania. We find that a village in the 90th percentile of the travel-cost adjusted price …
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This paper uses a dataset from Tanzania with information on consumption, income and income shocks within and across …
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A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that these differences persist through time, with important implications for the broader macroeconomy. These stylized facts derive largely from studies of manufacturing firms in wealthy...
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, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania). Despite reputations for weak health sectors and low average levels of education, health …
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firms, one for Tanzania covering 2008-2016 and one for Ethiopia covering 1996-2017. Our analysis reveals a dichotomy between …
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