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Due to lack of well-developed insurance, credit and labor markets, rural families in Ethiopia are exposed to a range of …
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We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …
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with those from an identical survey in Ethiopia to enable a two-country analysis. We find that health workers with higher …. The main Rwanda result for intrinsic motivation is strikingly similar to that obtained for Ethiopia and Rwanda together …
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This paper revisits the causes behind child labor supply by focusing on an aspect that has received little attention: the link between the household head's risk and time preferences and observed child labor supply. We develop a theoretical model and empirically test for this causality using data...
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In this paper, we study how classmate gender composition matters for students in Ethiopia. We base our results on a …
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households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …
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Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. We argue that,...
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agriculture. Chen (2010) describes increased religiosity in Indonesia following the 1998 financial crisis, and this paper …
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Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new industrial and infrastructure development following the creation of the new state of Uttarakhand. The...
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governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two … key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to regulate environmental pollution is implemented, cities chosen by local … governments are never too large. They are too small if pollution is purely global, but at the optimal size, if pollution is purely …
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