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Land trade and development : a market design approach
Bryan, Gharad; De Quidt, Jonathan; Wilkening, Tom; … - 2017
Small farms and fragmented plots are hallmarks of agriculture in less-developed countries, and there is evidence of high returns to land consolidation and reallocation. Complementarities, holdout and asymmetric information mean that private trade will be slow to reallocate land, and imply that...
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Rewarding commitment to attend school : a field study with indigenous Australian high school students
Potia, Azhar Hussain; Silva-Goncalves, Juliana; … - 2019
We introduce a novel incentive program aimed at decreasing school absenteeism based on the effect of voluntary promises in motivating desirable behaviour. In contrast to a standard program, in which students receive a reward conditional on having achieved a school attendance rate of at least 90...
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The anthropometric history of Native Americans, c. 1820 - 1890
Komlos, John; Carlson, Leonard - 2012
The trend of the height of Indian scouts in the U.S. Army born between ca. 1825 and 1875 is analyzed. Their average height of ca. 170 cm (67 in.) confirms that natives were tall compared to Europeans but were nearly the shortest among the rural populations in the New World. The trend in their...
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The Euro-Dollar exchange rate : is it fundamental?
Camarero Olivas, Mariam; Ordóñez, Javier; Tamarit … - 2002
-area currencies. First, using dynamic panel techniques, we estimate an error correction model for the dollar real exchange rate versus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538958
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An assessment of the impact of HIV/AIDS on economic growth : the case of Kenya
Were, Maureen; Nafula, Nancy N. - 2003
HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa has been closely associated with adverse economic effects, and could thwart the success of … poverty reduction initiatives. HIV/AIDS is fast eroding the health benefits, which Kenya gained in the first two decades of … Kenya. Within this framework, the paper attempts to analyse the impact of HIV/AIDS on Kenya s economic growth by way of …
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Does voluntary risk taking affect solidarity? : experimental evidence from Kenya
Strobl, Renate; Wunsch, Conny - 2017
In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance arrangements in developing countries, is sensitive to the extent to which in-dividuals can influence their risk exposure. With slum dwellers of Nairobi our design measures subjects'...
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Can integrity replace institutions? : theory and evidence
Aharonovitz, Gilad D.; Skuza, Nathan; Fahs, Faysal - 2009
, measure integrity and other values of these groups, and use this data and data from Kenya to support one of the model …
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Measuring the integration of staple food markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : heterogeneous infrastructure and cross border trade in the East African community
Ihle, Rico; Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan von; Zorya, Sergiy I. - 2011
markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a … rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices between 2000 and 2008 for Kenya, Tanzanian and Uganda. Distance is … market is isolated from the rest of East Africa and internally fragmented. -- border effect ; spatial market integration …
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Ethnic divisions and production in firms
Hjort, Jonas - 2013
evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker …
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Complementing business training with access to finance : evidence from SMEs in Kenya
Ashraf, Anik; Lyons, Elizabeth - 2023
medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. All participants in a business training program are offered training. One-third of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332125