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Does positional concern matter in poor societies? Evidence from a survey experiment in rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - 2009

We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …

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The dynamics of job creation and job destruction: is sub-saharan Africa different?

Shiferaw, Admasu; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2009

This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique panel data of Ethiopian manufacturing establishments...

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Family planning as an investment in development: evaluation of a program's consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh

Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - 2007

The paper analyzes 141 villages in Matlab, Bangladesh from 1974 to 1996, in which half the villages received from 1977 to 1996 a door-to-door outreach family planning and maternal-child health program. Village and individual data confirm a decline in fertility of about 15 percent in the program...

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The costs of favoritism: is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...

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Model of NGO regulation with an application to Uganda

Burger, Ronelle; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Owens, Trudy - 2011

We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery NGOs, where future grants are conditional on prior spending of some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to increase current project spending, but imposes wasteful costs of...

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Does relative income matter for the very poor? Evidence from rural ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - 2008

cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on subjective well-being in rural areas of northern Ethiopia. …

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Attitudes toward uncertainty among the poor: evidence from rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie; … - 2009

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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Testing the inverseness of fertility and labor supply: the case of Ethiopia

Solomon, Blen; Kimmel, Jean - 2009

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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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: evidence from Ethiopia

Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter; Barr, Abigail - 2010

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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Who wants to work in a rural health post? The role of intrinsic motivation, rural background and faith-based institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia

Serneels, Pieter; Montalvo, Jose G.; Pettersson, Gunilla; … - 2010

with those from an identical survey in Ethiopia to enable a two-country analysis. We find that health workers with higher …. The main Rwanda result for intrinsic motivation is strikingly similar to that obtained for Ethiopia and Rwanda together …

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