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Is EU Support to Malawi Agriculture Effective?

Zant, Wouter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

We measure the impact of the Farmers Income Diversification Program (FIDP), an EU funded program implemented in Malawi from late 2005 onwards, aiming at increasing agricultural productivity, diversification, value addition, commercialization and trade of subsistence farmers. The geographical...

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How does Market Access affect Smallholder Behavior? The Case of Tobacco Marketing in Malawi

Zant, Wouter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We exploit the introduction … improved market access on production per hectare and the underlying smallholder’s decisions on production and cultivated area … of the introduction of a new auction floor on smallholders’ behaviour: production per hectare, production and area of …

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Risk Sharing in Labour Markets

Bigsten, Arne; Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003

Empirical work in labour economics has focused on rent sharing as an explanation for the observed correlation in cross-sections between wages and profitability. The alternative explanation of risk sharing between workers and employers has not been tested. Using a unique panel data set for four...

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A Geometry of Specialization

Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998

Division of labor models have become a standard analytical tool, along withcompetitive general equilibrium models (Ricardian, HOS, Ricardo-Viner), in public finance, trade, growth, development, and macroeconomics. Yet unlike the earlier models, specialization models lack a canonical...

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On the Effectiveness of Child Care Centers in Promoting Child Development in Ecuador

Rosero, Jose - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Although the literature on the effectiveness of child care centers in developing countries is thin, most of the studies have concluded that the provision of these services are beneficial to enhance the development of poor children at early ages. Using different matching techniques, the results...

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Measuring Externalities in Program Evaluation

Janssens, Wendy - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

Impact evaluations of development programmes usually focus on a comparison of participants with a control group. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the programme’s impact. Based on a unique large-scale quantitative...

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On Socio-economic Roles and Specialization

Gilles, Robert P.; Lazarova, Emiliya; Ruys, Pieter H.M. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

Xiaokai Yang's theory of economic specialization under increasing returns to scale is a formal development of the fundamental Smith-Young theorem on the extent of the market and the social division of labor. In this theory specialization and, thus, the social division of labor is firmly embedded...

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Trade-offs between Different Early Childhood Interventions: Evidence from Ecuador

Rosero, Jose; Oosterbeek, Hessel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Using a discontinuity in the funding scheme, we evaluate the impact of home visitsand child care centers on poor children and mothers in Ecuador. We find thathome visits are beneficial for children's cognitive outcomes and health and for mothers'psychological well-being but reduce mothers' labor...

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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana

Berry, James; Karlan, Dean; Pradhan, Menno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only offered financial education. Both programs included a...

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Business Ownership and Economic Growth in 23 OECD Countries

Carree, Martin; Stel, André van; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2000

In the present paper we address the relationship between the extentof business ownership (self-employment) and economic development. We will focusupon three issues. First, how is the equilibrium rate of business ownershiprelated to the stage of economic development? Second, what is the speed...

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