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Incentivizing Learning-by-Doing : The Role of Compensation Schemes

Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2019

In this paper, we examine the impact of pay-for-performance incentives on learning-by-doing. We exploit personnel data on fruit pickers paid under two distinct compensation contracts: a standard piece rate plan and a piece rate plan with an extra one-time bonus tied to output. Under the bonus...

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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures

Galor, Oded - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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Robust Dynamic Space-Time Panel Data Models Using?-Contamination : an Application to Crop Yields and Climate Change

Baltagi, Badi H.; Bresson, Georges; Chaturvedi, Anoop; … - 2023

This paper extends the Baltagi et al. (2018, 2021) static and dynamic ?-contamination papers to dynamic space-time models. We investigate the robustness of Bayesian panel data models to possible misspecification of the prior distribution. The proposed robust Bayesian approach departs from the...

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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference

Galor, Oded - 2014

This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...

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Improving Access to Savings Through Mobile Money : Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers

Batista, Catia - 2019

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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How Sustainable are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda

Fishman, Ram - 2017

women declined, demand does not diminish, and farmers shift purchases from BRAC to market sources, indicating a persistent …

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Attitudes Toward Uncertainty Among the Poor : Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan - 2013

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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End-of-Year Spending and the Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2017

This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...

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Training Contracts, Employee Turnover, and the Returns from Firm-Sponsored General Training

Hoffman, Mitchell - 2017

Firms may be reluctant to provide general training if workers can quit and use their gained skills elsewhere. "Training contracts" that impose a penalty for premature quitting can help alleviate this inefficiency. Using plausibly exogenous contractual variation from a leading trucking firm, we...

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Evaluation of Language Training Programs in Luxembourg Using Principal Stratification

Bia, Michela - 2018

In a world increasingly globalized, multiple language skills can create more employment opportunities. Several countries include language training programs in active labor market programs for the unemployed. We analyze the effects of a language training program on the re-employment probability...

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