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New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa
Rainer, Ilia - 2012
The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...
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Heterogeneity, Measurement Error and Misallocation : Evidence from African Agriculture
Gollin, Douglas - 2019
rich panel data from farms in Tanzania and Uganda, we estimate our model using a flexible specification in which we allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895000
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Productivity Dispersion and Persistence Among the World's Most Numerous Firms
Maue, Casey; Burke, Marshall; Emerick, Kyle - 2022
A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that these differences persist through time, with important implications for the broader macroeconomy. These stylized facts derive largely from studies of manufacturing firms in wealthy...
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Distinguishing Constraints on Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP, TFP, and the Distribution of Income
Dabla-Norris, Era - 2015
A general equilibrium model featuring multiple realistic sources of financial frictions is developed to study how different constraints interact in equilibrium. We highlight, distinguish, and evaluate their differential impacts and rich interactions. The economic impact of financial inclusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030631
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Governance and the Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies
Dizon-Ross, Rebecca - 2015
audits on bed net distribution programs in three countries (Ghana, Kenya and Uganda) to investigate local agency problems and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019515
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When Should Governments Subsidize Health? The Case of Mass Deworming
Ahuja, Amrita - 2015
United States, Kenya, and Uganda. The existing evidence shows consistent positive impacts on school participation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022928
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Keeping the Doctor Away : Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products
Meredith, Jennifer - 2013
curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077947
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Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa
Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2013
Using a matched employer-employee data set of manufacturing plants in three sub-Saharan countries, I compare the marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. A methodological contribution is to estimate the firm level production function jointly with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753873
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Realizing the Gains from Trade : Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty
Balat, Jorge F. - 2010
into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We test the model using data from the Uganda National Household Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759840
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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda
Hunt, Jennifer - 2010
in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care … rate of 0.8%; doubling household expenditure in Uganda increases the bribery probability by 1.2 percentage points compared ….37 in Uganda. Bribes in the Ugandan public sector appear to be fees-for-service extorted from the richer patients amongst …
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