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We document the consequences of real exchange rate movements for the employment, hours, and hourly earnings of workers … in manufacturing industries across individual states. Exchange rates have statistically significant wage and employment …
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, Ghana enacted the Intestate Succession (PNDC) Law 111, 1985 and 1998 Children's Act 560 to force men to provide for their …
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conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in which farmers were randomly assigned to receive cash grants, grants of or …
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motivating experiment from Ghana, and second a small meta-analysis of other experiments. In the Ghana experiment, we provide …
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randomly gave cash and in-kind grants to male- and female-owned microenterprises in urban Ghana. Our findings cast doubt on the …
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a repeated gift-exchange experiment with university students in Ghana and the UK. The experiment is framed as an … employment contract. Each period the employer makes an irrevocable wage offer to the worker who then chooses an effort level. UK … that the share of selfish workers in Ghana is not substantially different from the UK or earlier experiments. We conclude …
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development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all …
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Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We show that variation in business practices explains as much of …
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audits on bed net distribution programs in three countries (Ghana, Kenya and Uganda) to investigate local agency problems and …
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