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Competition reform and household welfare: a microsimulation analysis of the telecommunication sector in Ethiopia
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and assuming a reform scenario that dilutes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418650
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Short- and long-run impacts of rural electrification : evidence from the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid
Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2017
Electrification among American farm households increased from less than 10 percent to nearly 100 percent over a three decade span, 1930{1960. We exploit the historical rollout of the U.S. power grid to study the short- and long-run impacts of rural electrification on local economies. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785614
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Evaluating the impacts of minigrid electrification in sub-Saharan Africa
Ayhan, Sinem H.; Falchetta, Giacomo; Steckel, Jan Christoph - 2022
A large share of the population of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lacks access to modern energy services. To bridge the electricity access gap, distributed power generation systems such as minigrids and stand-alone photovoltaic systems emerge as attractive options in the power supply solution space....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342931
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Occupational choice in early industrializing societies : experimental evidence on the income and health effects of industrial and entrepreneurial work
Blattman, Christopher J.; Dercon, Stefan - 2016
As low-income countries industrialize, workers choose between informal self-employment and low-skill manufacturing. What do workers trade off, and what are the long run impacts of this occupational choice? Self-employment is thought to be volatile and risky, but to provide autonomy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543729
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Intergenerational mobility in income and economic status in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2016
extent of intergenerational mobility in Ethiopia using monetary and non-monetary measures. Quantile regression and OLS based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502598
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Uptake of health insurance and the productive safety net program in rural Ethiopia
Shigute, Zemzem; Mebratie, Anagaw Derseh; Sparrow, Robert; … - 2016
Due to lack of well-developed insurance, credit and labor markets, rural families in Ethiopia are exposed to a range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455639
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Identifying national level education reforms in developing settings : an application to Ethiopia
Chicoine, Luke E. - 2016
1990s reform in Ethiopia based around the release of the Education and Training Policy, which removed schooling fees from … initial evidence that the increased enrollment in Ethiopia outweighed any cost due to reductions in quality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458927
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The winner takes it all : internal migration, education and wages in Ethiopia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Ruggeri Laderchi, Caterina - 2015
issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, a nationally representative household … survey, this paper examines internal migration in Ethiopia, focusing on the linkages among internal migration, education and … non-migrants - that is, "the winner takes it all." This result should be of concern to policy makers in Ethiopia and …
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Household behavioral preferences and the child labor-education trade-off : framed field experimental evidence from Ethiopia
Basu, Arnab K.; Dimova, Ralitza - 2020
Using data from the Rural Ethiopian Household Survey, which contains a behavioral module, we explore the link between adult risk and time preferences and the incidence and the intensity of child labor. While as expected child labor at both the extensive and the intensive margin is a result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179388
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Social insurance reform and labor market outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from Ethiopia
Shiferaw, Admasu; Bedi, Arjun Singh; Söderbom, Måns; … - 2017
This paper examines the labor market implications of a mandatory social insurance scheme introduced in Ethiopia in 2011 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709397