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This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The … effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment. This approach has been used to study a variety of …
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We analyse the effect of strong and weak ties on the individual probability of finding a job. Using the dynamic model of Calvó-Armengol and Jackson (2004), two results are put forward: (i) the individual probability of finding a job is increasing in the number of strong and weak ties; (ii) the...
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Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to the U.S. and their descendants. Employing data from...
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randomized survey experiment in Tanzania focusing on two survey aspects: different questionnaire design to classify children work …
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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 …
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's working hours. Analysis using Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) data on the Kagera region in Tanzania lend support to …
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This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a nationally representative longitudinal household...
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, Tanzania. Further, we show that the structure of the sufficient statistics is maintained in the case where the model is …
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microdata from Tanzania. We use idiosyncratic variation in rainfall to proxy for shocks on household income of rural households …
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Tanzania. We exploit the rapid expansion of the mobile money agent network between 2010 and 2012 and combine this with …
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