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Market Access, Trade Costs, and Technology Adoption : Evidence from Northern Tanzania
Aggarwal, Shilpa - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480904
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Economic Transformation in Africa from the Bottom Up : Evidence from Tanzania
Diao, Xinshen - 2016
At roughly 4% per annum, labor productivity in Tanzania has grown more rapidly over the past 12 years than at any other …-agricultural employment growth has occurred in the informal sector. Using Tanzania's first nationally representative survey of micro, small … economy-wide labor productivity growth in Tanzania between 2002 and 2012. However, virtually all of the labor productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455791
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Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions
Roth, Alvin E. - 2010
This note describes the unraveling of transaction dates in several markets, including the labor markets for new lawyers hired by large law firms and for gastroenterology fellows, and the market for post-season college football bowls. Together these will illustrate that unraveling can occur in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462101
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What Predicts the Growth of Small Firms?$bEvidence from Tanzanian Commercial Loan Data
Ellis, Mia; Kinnan, Cynthia; McMillan, Margaret Stokes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Not all firms have equal capacity to absorb productive credit. Identifying those with higher potential may have large consequences for productivity. We collect detailed survey data on small- and medium-sized Tanzanian firms who borrow from a large commercial bank, which in turn raises funds via...
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Williamson and Coase : Transaction Costs or Rent-Seeking in the Formation of Institutions
Libecap, Gary D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The governance and transaction cost insights of Oliver Williamson (1975, 1985, 1996, 2010) and Ronald Coase (1937, 1992) have framed antitrust polices and firm management strategies. Transaction cost economics explain efficient governance adaptation. With a focus on private efficiency gains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576632
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Why Not a Political Coase Theorem? Social Conflict, Commitment and Politics
Acemoglu, Daron - 2002
Do societies choose inefficient policies and institutions, in contrast to what would be suggested by a reasoning extending the Coase Theorem to politics? Do societies choose inefficient policies and institutions because of differences in the beliefs and ideologies of their peoples or leaders? Or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469326
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Heterogeneity, Measurement Error and Misallocation : Evidence from African Agriculture
Gollin, Douglas - 2019
rich panel data from farms in Tanzania and Uganda, we estimate our model using a flexible specification in which we allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479396
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The Effect of the Universal Primary Education Program on Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from Tanzania
Delesalle, Esther - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479739
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Designing Effective Teacher Performance Pay Programs : Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
Mbiti, Isaac - 2019
We use a field experiment in Tanzania to compare the effectiveness on learning of two teacher performance pay systems …
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Consumption Insurance in Networks with Asymmetric Information
Attanasio, Orazio - 2020
This paper uses a dataset from Tanzania with information on consumption, income and income shocks within and across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481872