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Ceding control : an experimental analysis of participatory management
Mellizo, Philip; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2017
We use an experiment to evaluate the effects of participatory management on firm performance. Participants are randomly assigned roles as managers or workers in firms that generate output via real effort. To identify the causal effect of participation on effort, workers are exogenously assigned...
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The extractive industry's impact on economic growth in SADC countries
Nhabinde, Simeão; Heshmati, Almas - 2020
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are rich in natural resources and in most of them their extractive industries extract and export natural resources with little industrial processing. This study analyzes the direct and indirect impacts that the extractive industries in...
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We don't need no education: the effect of natural resource income shocks on human capital
Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2020
gender. Consistent with these insights, we find that income shocks in early life enhance educational attainment and other …
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The elasticity of taxable income : a meta-regression analysis
Neisser, Carina - 2018
The elasticities of taxable and broad income are key parameters in tax policy analysis. To examine the large variation … in estimates found in the literature, I conduct a comprehensive meta-regression analysis using information from 51 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949525
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Are women more credit constrained? : experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns
Mel, Suresh de (contributor); McKenzie, David J. (contributor) - 2008
female owners. We find no evidence that the gender gap is explained by differences in ability, risk aversion, or … women on equipment. We also find that the gender gap is largest when we compare male-dominated sectors to female … owners who might benefit from more access to capital. -- Microenterprises ; gender ; microfinance ; randomized experiment …
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Returns to capital in microenterprises : evidence from a field experiment
De Mel, Suresh (contributor); McKenzie, David J. (contributor) - 2007
Small and informal firms account for a large share of employment in developing countries. The rapid expansion of microfinance services is based on the belief that these firms have productive investment opportunities and can enjoy high returns to capital if given the opportunity. However,...
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Risk management among the poor : the case of microfinancial services
Arun, Thankom; Bendig, Mirko - 2010
This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household's use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally probit...
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The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information about the registration process and reimbursement for direct registration costs had no impact on...
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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics : experimental evidence from Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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The formation of migrant networks
Comola, Margherita; Mendola, Mariapia - 2014
This paper provides the first direct evidence on the determinants of link formation among immigrants in the host society. We use a purposely-designed survey on a representative sample of Sri Lankan immigrants living in Milan to study how migrants form social links among them and the extent to...
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