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In "trusts" we trust : socially motivated private schools in Nepal
Pal, Sarmistha; Saha, Bibhas - 2014
We study school choice and school efficiency in terms of secondary school completion test scores by utilizing a unique database from Nepal. There are two novel features of our analysis: firstly we allow for heterogeneity among private schools, by distinguishing socially motivated trust-run...
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Improving the peer review process : a proposed market system
Frijters, Paul; Torgler, Benno - 2016
The current peer review system suffers from two key problems: promotion of an in-crowd whose methods, opinions and innovations it protects; and failure to represent the opinions and interests of non-peer clients. As a result, whole disciplines orient themselves toward navel-gazing research...
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Is transparency an anti-corruption myth?
Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Schaffner, Markus - 2017
We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by … transparency. A plausible story that fits our results is that there may be two countervailing forces at play. First, more rapid … policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …
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A breath of fresh air: raising awareness for clean fuel adoption
Afridi, Farzana; Debnath, Sisir; Somanathan, E. - 2020
them, or raise health awareness along with providing information on the universal cash-back LPG subsidy program or a … financial constraints and the importance of the design of public subsidy schemes in inducing regular usage of clean fuels. …
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Timing the transfer : liquidity constraints and the transition to clean fuels
Afridi, Farzana; Barnwal, Prabhat; Sarkar, Shreya - 2024
We study the role of the administrative design of energy subsidy programs aimed at encouraging households' transition … to cleaner energy sources. Our context is the universal subsidy for clean cooking gas (LPG) in India - households first … purchase LPG at the market price (over-the-counter) and then receive a "cash-back" subsidy in their bank account. The subsidy …
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Financial literacy and food security in extremely vulnerable households
Millimet, Daniel L.; McDonough, Ian K.; Fomby, Thomas B. - 2015
Food insecurity is one of the most, if not the most, significant, nutrition-related public health issue confronted in the US. Unfortunately, we know very little about the determinants of food security except that it is not synonymous with poverty. Many households above the poverty line are food...
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Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security : evidence from Uganda
Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015
This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...
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Evaluating the long-run impact of an innovative anti-poverty program : evidence using household panel data
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Ara, Jinnat - 2016
Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction – Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR – TUP) programme of BRAC, we investigate whether a one-off transfer of livestock assets improves well-being of the very poor women in Bangladesh....
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Civil war, famine and the persistence of human capital: evidence from Tajikistan
Grogan, Louise Anne - 2021
The dissolution of the Soviet Union and 1992-96 Tajik civil war resulted in huge human and economic losses. Nevertheless, contemporary data suggest the persistence of investments in human capital in the region most affected by famine and least favoured since the cessation of hostilities,...
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Improving women's mental health during a pandemic
O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Caro, Luis Pinedo - 2021
In low-income settings, women are vulnerable to the psychological distress caused by the social and economic impact of large-scale shocks (e.g., pandemics, natural disasters, political). This paper evaluates a randomized over-the-phone counseling intervention aimed at mitigating the mental...
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