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Donor Contracting Conditions and Public Procurement : Causal Evidence from Kenyan Electrification

Wolfram, Catherine D.; Miguel, Edward; Hsu, Eric; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

economic development project. We leverage an unusual feature of Kenya's nationwide electrification program: the quasi …-random allocation of multilateral funding sources across nearby villages. African Development Bank (AfDB) projects used bundled … analysis suggests a stark trade-off: WB procedures delayed construction completion by 16 months relative to AfDB sites but …

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New Evidence on the Economics of Climate and Conflict

Burke, Marshall; Ferguson, Joel; Hsiang, Solomon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We survey the quantitative research literature linking climate and conflict, a body of research that spans multiple academic disciplines and has roughly doubled in size in the last decade. It makes three main contributions. First, we carry out a meta-analysis - updating Hsiang et al (2013) and...

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Scaling Agricultural Policy Interventions

Bergquist, Lauren Falcao; Faber, Benjamin; Fally, Thibault - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Policies aimed at raising agricultural productivity have been a centerpiece in the fight against global poverty. Their impacts are often measured using field or quasi-experiments that provide strong causal identification, but may be too small-scale to capture the general equilibrium (GE) effects...

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The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries

Miguel, Edward; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health and living standards around the world. This article provides an interim overview of these effects, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Economists have explained how the pandemic is likely to have differential consequences...

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Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development?

Lee, Kenneth - 2019

electrifying households. Yet the microeconomic literature examining the impacts of electrifying households on economic development … development outcomes. Instead, future initiatives may work better if paired with complementary inputs that allow people to do more …

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The Illusion of Sustainability

Kremer, Michael - 2004

The history of foreign development assistance is one of movement away from addressing immediate needs and toward … development projects, with its focus on providing public goods and correcting externalities. We examine evidence from randomized …

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Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata

Hicks, Joan Hamory - 2017

Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and nonagricultural sectors in low-income countries, as well as between workers in rural and urban areas. Most estimates are based on national accounts or repeated cross-sections of micro-survey data, and as...

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Can War Foster Cooperation?

Bauer, Michal - 2016

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...

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Impacts and Determinants of Health Levels in Low-Income Countries

Dupas, Pascaline - 2016

Improved health in low-income countries could considerably improve wellbeing and possibly promote economic growth. The last decade has seen a surge in field experiments designed to understand the barriers that households and governments face in investing in health and how these barriers can be...

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Education as Liberation?

Friedman, Willa - 2011

Scholars have long speculated about education's political impacts, variously arguing that it promotes modern or pro-democratic attitudes; that it instills acceptance of existing authority; and that it empowers the disadvantaged to challenge authority. To avoid endogeneity bias, if schooling...

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