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Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda
Bensch, Gunther - 2011
Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected in Rwanda in villages with and without electricity access. We account for self-selection and...
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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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The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India
Hazarika, Gautam - 2010
, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …
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Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India : The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Afridi, Farzana - 2012
We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
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Loan Regulation and Child Labor in Rural India
Dasgupta, Basab - 2014
We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal …
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Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India
Balasubramaniam, Divya - 2014
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social … divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to … for access to tap water in rural India. Communities that are heterogeneous in terms of caste (within the majority Hindu …
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Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit : Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India
Bauer, Michal - 2014
experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of …
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Women, Children and Patience : Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages
Bauer, Michal - 2009
random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158525
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The Determinants of Trust : Evidence from Rural South India
Hilger, Anne - 2020
Trust and participation in social networks are inherently interrelated. We make use of India's demonetization policy … trust. We use first-hand quantitative and qualitative data from rural South India and control for individual characteristics …
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Changes in Open Defecation in Rural North India : 2014-2018
Gupta, Aashish - 2019
Since October 2014, the Government of India has worked towards a goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019 through … India. Here, we report results from a late 2018 survey that revisited households from the 2014 survey in four states: Bihar …
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