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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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from a household survey in Uganda are used to test the theoretical prediction that payment of bride price will be …
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