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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda; Mason, Nicole; … - 2015
The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...
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Alcohol and student performance: Estimating the effect of legal access
Lindo, Jason M.; Swensen, Isaac D.; Waddell, Glen R. - 2011
We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol, which is known to increase drinking behavior, on academic performance. We first estimate the effect using an RD design but argue that this approach is not well-suited to the research question in our setting. Our preferred approach instead...
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New estimates of the value of a statistical life using air bag regulations as a quasi-experiment
Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2012
Due to Federal regulations, automobile air bag availability was a model-specific discontinuous function of model year for used vehicles in the 1990s and early 2000s. We use these discontinuities and the gradual increase in the supply of air bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the...
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Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Bernard, Tanguy; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas; … - 2015
Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural produce through producer organizations. We conduct a cluster-randomized controlled trial in rural Senegal in which we vary the number and the type of smallholder farmers - members...
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Market Competition and Discrimination
Siddique, Abu; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020
This paper studies the effect of competition on ethnic discrimination by carrying out a field experiment in the context of the rice market in Bangladesh. We recruit professional rice buyers (middlemen) to act as judges in a rice competition by providing a quality rating and a price quote for...
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The Extractive Industry's Impact on Economic Growth in SADC Countries
Nhabinde, Simeão; Heshmati, Almas - 2020
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are rich in natural resources and in most of them their extractive industries extract and export natural resources with little industrial processing. This study analyzes the direct and indirect impacts that the extractive industries in...
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Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production: Evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders … reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …
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Strengthening Producer Organizations to Increase Market Access of Smallholder Farmers in Uganda
Vargas Hill, Ruth; Maruyama, Eduardo; Olapade, Markus; … - 2020
procuring inputs and marketing produce, where smallholders face disproportionately high transaction costs. Producer …
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Short-Term Impacts of Targeted Cash Grants and Business Development Services: Experimental Evidence from Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso
Grimm, Michael; Soubeiga, Sidiki; Weber, Michael - 2021
Most support programs targeted at small firms in low- and middle-income countries fail to generate transformative effects at a large scale due to bad targeting, too little flexibility, and the limited size of the support, among others. This paper assesses the short-term effects of a randomized...
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Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy
Heshmati, Almas; Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2014
Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the interaction between suppliers and customers (smart...
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