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in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity …
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proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on … poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying …
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-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting …
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There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...
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is important to establish the factors determining the exit from farming among elderly farmers. This study analyses the … choice of pension scheme of farmers. The focus is on the effects of farm and off-farm incomes and various offered economic … incentives on farmers? retirement decisions. The results provide valuable information concerning evaluation of existing …
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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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revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between … a quasi-natural experiment to identify the relationship between land rights and labor allocation of farmers. We find … that young farmers (age 16-44) are not affected in their migration decisions by land loss through requisition, while some …
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on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …
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This paper investigates the potential of information technologies to improve public service delivery and empower citizens in the context of two unusual randomized natural experiments occurring within one particular bureaucratic process: the renewal of a national identification card by the...
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Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...
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