the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a …

Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate … electricity access. We account for self-selection and regional differences by using households from the electrified villages to … income and children's home studying become insignificant if regional differences are accounted for …

incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …

This paper examines whether workers living in rural areas are more likely to be self-employed, compared with those in …. We also study the time devoted to market work, and monthly earnings, of self-employed workers in rural and urban areas …. Results show that workers in rural areas are more likely to be self-employed than workers in urban areas, although engaging in …

owners. The exogenous component of technology ownership is isolated by using information on the regional presence of … average regional elevation. Results indicate that for firms with female owners, technology adoption improves value-added per …

non-food consumption in rural households. These effects are mainly due to an increase in labor force participation and …

shift generated only modest economic gains in rural areas, primarily in the form of increased self-employment earnings and … increased labor supply by teenage boys. The results also suggest that the rural areas which saw accelerated coca production …

Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in …