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Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital : Evidence from Ghana
Barker, Nathan; Bryan, Gharad; Karlan, Dean; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
households in rural Ghana. Results from 2-3 months after a randomized intervention show strong impacts on mental and physical …
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The Impact of Free Secondary Education : Experimental Evidence from Ghana
Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
assignment to secondary school scholarships among 2,064 youths in Ghana, combined with 12 years of data, to establish that …
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Economic Development, the Nutrition Trap and Metabolic Disease
Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan; Oommen, Anu; Singh, Swapnil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
biological mechanism, which are validated with micro-data from India, Indonesia and Ghana can jointly explain inter …
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Money or Power? Financial Infrastructure and Optimal Policy
Berkouwer, Susanna B.; Biscaye, Pierre E.; Hsu, Eric; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
adoption: this increases its value and reduces transaction costs of buying electricity credit. By contrast, in Ghana …
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Technology and Local State Capacity : Evidence from Ghana
Dzansi, James; Jensen, Anders; Lagakos, David; Telli, Henry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
conduct a new census of all local governments in Ghana to document a strong association between technology use and property …
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Programming FPGAs for Economics : An Introduction to Electrical Engineering Economics
Cheela, Bhagath; DeHon, André; Fernández-Villaverde, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show how to use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their associated high-level synthesis (HLS) compilers to solve heterogeneous agent models with incomplete markets and aggregate uncertainty (Krusell and Smith, 1998). We document that the acceleration delivered by one single FPGA is...
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External Validity : Four Models of Improving Student Achievement
Duflo, Annie - 2020
settings. This study uses a large-scale, nationwide RCT in Ghana to show the external validity of four school …
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Does Poverty Change Labor Supply? Evidence from Multiple Income Effects and 115,579 Bags
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2020
effort in northern Ghana respond to exogenous changes in income and wages using a randomized evaluation of a multi …
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How Political Insiders Lose Out When International Aid Underperforms : Evidence from a Participatory Development Experiment in Ghana
Baldwin, Kate - 2020
Ghana, we analyze the effects of a major participatory development program on participation in, leadership of and investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481888
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Health Knowledge and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa
Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Beg, Sabrin; Derksen, Laura C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
promotes protective risk mitigation behaviors early in the COVID-19 pandemic across four African countries (Ghana, Malawi …
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