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We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a six point decrease in GED pass rates induces a 1.3...
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food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold …
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beneficiary welfare. We provide evidence from the NGO sector in Uganda consistent with our theoretical conclusions. Beneficiaries …
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This paper examines an alternative to monitoring staff at a public health clinic in rural Uganda. The program sent SMS …
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Uganda National Household Survey by adopting a Tobit-hybrid model. Our results show that gender differentials in the intra …
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farming practices among women smallholders in Uganda. We find that while supply of improved seeds through local, BRAC trained …
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extension and subsidy program that promotes improved inputs and cultivation practices among smallholder women farmers in Uganda …
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report the results of an experiment in rural Uganda that sought to reduce dropout rates in grade six and seven by offering …
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in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care … rate of 0.8%; doubling household expenditure in Uganda increases the bribery probability by 1.2 percentage points compared ….37 in Uganda. Bribes in the Ugandan public sector appear to be fees-for-service extorted from the richer patients amongst …
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Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
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