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Building trust in rural producer organizations in Senegal : results from a randomized controlled trial

Bernard, Tanguy; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas; … - 2015

Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural produce through producer organizations. We conduct a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Senegal in which we vary the number and the type of smallholder farmers - members...

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The performance of consumers' cooperatives in America

Pencavel, John H. - 2020

A series of observations on various types of cooperatives is constructed from intermittent surveys between 1920 and 1950 and, where possible, these are extended to recent years. These observations allow several questions to be taken up: how well have organizations that resemble consumers'...

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Welfare effect and elite capture in agricultural cooperatives intervention : evidence from Ethiopian villages

Gelo, Dambala; Muchapondwa, Edwin; Shimeles, Abebe; … - 2019

This paper evaluates the impact of the Purchase 4 Progress (P4P) intervention implemented by World Food Program in Ethiopia on per capita income as well as across sub-social groups. The intervention is intended to improve the market power of smallholder farmers through cooperatives that has the...

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How corruption hits people when they are down

Hunt, Jennifer (contributor) - 2006

"Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more likely than non-victims to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims' demand for public services, raising bribery indirectly, and also increases victims' propensity to...

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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement : evidence from within-teacher within-student variation

Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

knowledge ; student achievement ; Peru …

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Bribery in health care in Peru and Uganda

Hunt, Jennifer (contributor) - 2007

in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care …: doubling household consumption increases the bribery probability by 0.2-0.4 percentage points in Peru, compared to a bribery … to a bribery rate of 17%. The income elasticity of the bribe amount cannot be precisely estimated in Peru, but is about 0 …

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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to a continuum of comparison groups

Ñopo, Hugo (contributor) - 2007

proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set …

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Employment and deadweight loss effects of observed non-wage labor costs

Aguilar, Giovanna (contributor); … - 2007

To assess the employment effects of labor costs it is crucial to have reliable estimates of the labor cost elasticity of labor demand. Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we estimate a long run unconditional labor demand function, exploiting information on workers to correct for endogeneity in...

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Child labor and schooling response to changes in coca production in rural Peru

Dammert, Ana C. (contributor) - 2007

coca leaves from Peru to Colombia in 1995 to analyze the indirect effects of the anti-coca policy on children's allocation …

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Returns to private education in Peru

Calónico, Sebastián (contributor); Ñopo, Hugo (contributor) - 2007

individual returns to education in Urban Peru. Exploiting a rich pair of data sets (ENNIV 1997 and 2000) that include questions …

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