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New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa
Rainer, Ilia - 2012
The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460236
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Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa
Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2007
not at all for the least developed country (Tanzania). Moreover, the breakdown in correct remuneration in the two least …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465344
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Mobile Money and Healthcare Use : Evidence from East Africa
Ahmed, Haseeb - 2019
about 1,600 households of 10 villages in the Kisumu region of Western Kenya. We find evidence that MMT, likely through …
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Can Self-Help Groups Really Be "Self-Help"?
Greaney, Brian - 2013
This paper examines a cost-reducing innovation to the delivery of "Self-Help Group" microfinance services. These groups typically rely on outside agents to found and administer the groups although funds are raised by the group members. The innovation is to have the agents earn their payment by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459692
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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 …
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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 … education, I find that education increases household consumption, especially in agriculture and in nonfarm self …
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479852
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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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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
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Productivity Dispersion and Persistence Among the World's Most Numerous Firms
Maue, Casey C. - 2020
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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