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How Sustainable Are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda
Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobić, Vida; … - 2017
Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel randomized phase-out research method, we provide experimental tests of the...
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Can Agricultural Extension and Input Support Be Discontinued? Evidence from a Randomized Phaseout in Uganda
Fishman, Ram; Smith, Stephen C.; Bobic, Vida; Sulaiman, … - 2019
Many development programs that attempt to disseminate improved technologies are limited in duration, either because of external funding constraints or an assumption of impact sustainability; but there is limited evidence on whether and when terminating such programs is efficient. We provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059206
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Manager ethnicity and employment segregation
Giuliano, Laura; Ransom, Michael R. - 2011
Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the United States, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition of employment at the firm's 73 stores. We estimate separate models with store fixed effects for several departments and...
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Intrafirm Mobility and Sex Differences in Pay
Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Ransom, Michael R. - 2003
In this paper we analyze eight years of employment data of a regional grocery store chain in the U.S. The data include job titles, wage rates, and earnings for all employees. We examine initial job assignments, mobility between departments, and mobility into supervisory and management positions...
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Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success: Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Greve, Jane; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal - 2015
This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in utero as a natural experiment, under the assumption that...
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
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Financial Literacy and Food Security in Extremely Vulnerable Households
Millimet, Daniel L.; McDonough, Ian K.; Fomby, Thomas B. - 2015
Food insecurity is one of the most, if not the most, significant, nutrition-related public health issue confronted in … the US. Unfortunately, we know very little about the determinants of food security except that it is not synonymous with … poverty. Many households above the poverty line are food insecure; many below are not. We investigate a lack of financial …
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Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda
Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015
food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold …, savings and wage income, which lead to improved food security. Given minimal changes in the adoption of relatively expensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307403
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Small-Scale Farming and Food Security: The Enabling Role of Cash Transfers in South Africa's Former Homelands
von Fintel, Dieter; Pienaar, Louw - 2016
-market economic activity (in the form of small-scale farming), and improve the self-reported food security of rural households that … farm, vis-à-vis those that do not. However, only non-farming households increase market food expenditure and consume more … diverse diets from market-sourced foods: diet quality improves with greater spending, while food sufficiency remains …
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