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The Effect of Fe y Alegria on School Achievement: Exploiting a School Lottery Selection as a Natural Experiment

Lavado, Pablo; Cueto, Santiago; Yamada, Gustavo; … - 2016

Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...

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Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2013

The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...

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Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia

Grimm, Michael; Sparrow, Robert; Tasciotti, Luca - 2014

We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies on a district-fixed effects approach and controlling for local economic development. The...

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Africa's Prospects for Enjoying a Demographic Dividend

Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2016

We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa remain high, they have started to decline. According to UN projections, they will fall further in the coming decades such that by the mid-21st century the ratio of the...

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Infrastructure Grants and the Performance of Microenterprises

Chaurey, Ritam; Le, Duong Trung - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …

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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide : A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2004

), infrastructure indicators (telephone density, electricity consumption), telecommunications pricing measures, and regulatory quality … generally very similar. Our results suggest that public investment in human capital, telecommunications infrastructure, and the … regulatory infrastructure can mitigate the gap in PC and Internet use. …

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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces: a panel data analysis

Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - 2006

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...

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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2008

capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion of new technology and its regional spread; and market reforms, with a major … infrastructure capital on regional inequality. We conclude that investing in human capital will be an effective policy to reduce …

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A model for industrial development of the federal region of Kurdistan: science and technology policy, instruments and institutions

Heshmati, Almas - 2007

security and self-sufficiency is followed by a presentation of infrastructure organizations and their cooperation to implement …

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Where are the real bottlenecks? Evidence from 20,000 firms in 60 countries about the shadow costs of constraints to firm performance

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark E.; Seabright, Paul - 2007

We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth of firms. We interpret managers' answers to survey questions on the extent to which various aspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring the shadow cost of...

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