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Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … sample of smallholder farmers in rural Mozambique. This sample included a set of primary farmers and their closest farming … fertilizer salience in the remunerated savings treatment may have been important to focus farmers' (limited) attention on saving …
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electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without …
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Rwanda in the early 90s, and using micro data to carry out econometric analysis, this paper finds that households and …
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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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delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on …
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This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the … following the conflict. We use individual-level data from Demographic and Health Surveys to estimate survival and count data …
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This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression …
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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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In the absence of third party and prepayment systems such as health insurance and tax-based healthcare financing … recent years, community based health insurance schemes have become popular alternatives to fill such void in the healthcare … nationally representative data from Rwanda. We estimate an Extended Two-Part Model to address endogeniety in insurance enrollment …
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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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