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It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality of countries' political institutions. We estimate the effect of political institutions on the diffusion of three telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in...
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in developing countries? Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile internet? To respond to these questions, this … on the rollout of mobile broadband coverage in Tanzania. The results reveal that being covered by 3G networks has a large …. Working age individuals living in areas covered by mobile internet witnessed an increase in labor force participation, wage …
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Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … technology by adopting broadband internet. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and provides … business. By comparison, broadband internet is a substitute for workers without high school diploma, lowering their marginal …
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households (MHH) in Tanzania as well as with the underlying cause of potentially different patterns. I estimate semiparametric …
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survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent … design ; Tanzania ; field experiment …
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homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a region in northwestern Tanzania - received more than 500,000 refugees …
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randomized survey experiment in Tanzania focusing on two survey aspects: different questionnaire design to classify children work … collected. -- child labor ; survey design ; Tanzania …
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the effect of enrollment growth following the removal of primary school fees in Tanzania and find that it led to large …
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Since mid-2000s, Ethiopia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. However, productive entrepreneurship in high-value added activities has made limited contributions to this growth, in part because of a weak business environment. Moreover, the low-productive firms in the...
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Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households … belonging to the same network. We show that there is significant asymmetry of information and no evidence of major systematic …
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