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A First Step Up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household's Welfare in Rural Rwanda
Grimm, Michael - 2014
More than 1.3 billion people lack access to electricity. The UN have proclaimed the goal of providing electricity to all by 2030. In recent years, Pico-Photovoltaic kits have become a lower cost alternative to investment intensive grid electrification. Using a randomized controlled trial we...
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Who Wants to Work in a Rural Health Post? The Role of Intrinsic Motivation, Rural Background and Faith-Based Institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia
Serneels, Pieter M. - 2010
of 412 nursing and medical students in Rwanda, this paper examines the determinants of future health workers' willingness …. The main Rwanda result for intrinsic motivation is strikingly similar to that obtained for Ethiopia and Rwanda together …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146466
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Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda
Bensch, Gunther - 2011
electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117194
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Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants : Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools
Leaver, Clare - 2020
This paper reports on a two-tiered experiment designed to separately identify the selection and effort margins of pay-for-performance (P4P). At the recruitment stage, teacher labor markets were randomly assigned to a pay- for-percentile or fixed-wage contract. Once recruits were placed, an...
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Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda
Blimpo, Moussa - 2020
delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824424
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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility : Evidence from the Genocide in Rwanda
Krähnert, Kati - 2019
This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870153
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Community-Based Health Insurance and Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Spending in Africa : Evidence from Rwanda
Woldemichael, Andinet - 2016
nationally representative data from Rwanda. We estimate an Extended Two-Part Model to address endogeniety in insurance enrollment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992729
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Demand for Off-Grid Solar Electricity : Experimental Evidence from Rwanda
Grimm, Michael - 2017
Providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries is one of the top political priorities of the international community, yet the costs of reaching this objective are very high. The present paper examines whether the objective and the associated costs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966822
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Measuring Women's Empowerment in Rwanda
Musonera, Abdou - 2016
This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984863
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Service Sector Development and its Determinants in Rwanda
Uwitonze, Eric - 2016
an alternative to manufacturing-led development in Rwanda since its aims is to become a service-based hub to serve … Rwanda's economy and empirically estimate its determinants by using an econometric methodology. The empirical results are … based on micro-data collected during the Rwanda Enterprise Survey 2011 and the 2014 Establishment Census. The survey has …
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