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We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …
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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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cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on subjective well-being in rural areas of northern Ethiopia. …
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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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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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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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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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Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to …-scores, with the children in the war-instigating and losing country (Eritrea) suffering more than the winning nation (Ethiopia …
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technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises from Ethiopia over the period 1996-2004 and deploying System Generalized … Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role …
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generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by this reform is identified using both … reform. The model finds that the removal of school fees in Ethiopia led to an increase of over 1.5 years of schooling for …
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