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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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We report the results from a field experiment with a micro lender in Uganda to test the effectiveness of privately …
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A large fraction of Uganda's population continues to earn a living from quasi-subsistence agriculture. This paper uses …
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In 2008, Uganda granted hundreds of small groups $400/person to help members start individual skilled trades. Four …
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rich panel data from farms in Tanzania and Uganda, we estimate our model using a flexible specification in which we allow …
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into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We test the model using data from the Uganda National Household Survey …
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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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In a field experiment in Uganda, a free distribution of three health products lowers subsequent demand relative to a …
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Evidence on the effectiveness of financial education and formal savings account access is lacking, particularly for youth. We randomly assign 250 youth clubs to receive either financial education, access to a cheap group account, or both. The financial education treatments increase financial...
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. Using a school-based commitment savings program for educational expenses in Uganda, we compare an account fully-committed to …
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