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Competition Reform and Household Welfare: A Microsimulation Analysis of the Telecommunication Sector in Ethiopia
Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos; Araar, Abdelkrim; … - 2021
This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and assuming a reform scenario that dilutes the market share of the state-owned monopoly to 45...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497945
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Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020
sugar plantations, since the extreme demographic and social conditions prevailing in the latter have persistently affected … family formation patterns. By exploiting the exogenous variation in sugar suitability, we establish the following. In 1850 …, sugar suitability is indeed associated with extreme demographic outcomes within the slave population. Over the period 1880 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269990
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment
Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - 2013
We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329041
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Xenophobic attacks, migration intentions and networks: Evidence from the South of Africa
Friebel, Guido; Gallego, Juan Miguel; Mendola, Mariapia - 2011
We investigate how emigration flows from a developing region are affected by xenophobic violence at destination. Our empirical analysis is based on a unique survey among more than 1000 households, collected in Mozambique in summer 2008, a few months after a series of xenophobic attacks in South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278451
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Improving Access to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2019
Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile money as a tool to promote agricultural investment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180006
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Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an Experiment in Rural Africa
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2020
Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180127
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Labour Market Effects of Digital Matching Platforms: Experimental Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022
Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351948
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Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2023
Rural areas in Sub-Saharan Africa are typically underserved by financial services. Mobile money brings a substantial reduction in the transaction costs of remittances. We follow the introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural villages of Mozambique using a randomized field...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296845
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Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique
Batista, Catia; McIndoe Calder, Tara; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2014
Does return migration affect entrepreneurship? This question has important implications for the debate on the economic development effects of migration for origin countries. The existing literature has, however, not addressed how the estimation of the impact of return migration on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377295
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment
Batista, Catia; Silverman, Dan; Yang, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household. Dictators share more with counterparts when they have the option...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212755