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We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian...
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households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of …
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The Food for Education (FFE) program was introduced to Bangladesh in 1993. This paper evaluates the effect of this program on school participation and duration of schooling using a household survey data collected in 2000, after 7 years of operation of the program. Using propensity score matching...
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We test the inverseness of fertility and labor supply for married women in Ethiopia to determine if previous research … addressing the endogeneity of fertility. Using data from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of Ethiopia, we use the husband … fertility and labor supply in Ethiopia, perhaps because the persistence of traditional family structures in the face of rising …
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Ethiopia on per capita income as well as across sub-social groups. The intervention is intended to improve the market power of …
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generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by this reform is identified using both … reform. The model finds that the removal of school fees in Ethiopia led to an increase of over 1.5 years of schooling for …
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As low-income countries industrialize, workers choose between informal self-employment and low-skill manufacturing. What do workers trade off, and what are the long run impacts of this occupational choice? Self-employment is thought to be volatile and risky, but to provide autonomy and...
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Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like intrinsic...
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extent of intergenerational mobility in Ethiopia using monetary and non-monetary measures. Quantile regression and OLS based …
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1990s reform in Ethiopia based around the release of the Education and Training Policy, which removed schooling fees from … initial evidence that the increased enrollment in Ethiopia outweighed any cost due to reductions in quality …
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