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A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics
Moreno Cruz, Juan Bernardo - 2014
We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy sources. As a result, renewable sources twice as dense,...
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Finders, Keepers?
Jaakkola, Niko - 2016
Natural-resource taxation and investment exhibit cycles in a vast number of countries, driving political turmoil and power shifts. Using a rational-expectations model, we show cycles result from governments' inability to commit to future taxes and firms' inability to credibly exit a country...
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The Taxation of Exhaustible Resources
Dasgupta, Partha; Heal, Geoffrey M.; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2021
This paper analyzes the effect of taxation on the intertemporal allocation of an exhaustible resource. A general framework within which a large variety of taxes can be analyzed is developed and then applied to a number of specific taxes. It is shown that there exists a pattern of taxation which...
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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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Remembering to Pay? Reminders vs. Financial Incentives for Loan Payments
Cadena, Ximena - 2014
We report the results from a field experiment with a micro lender in Uganda to test the effectiveness of privately …
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Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda
Gollin, Douglas - 2014
A large fraction of Uganda's population continues to earn a living from quasi-subsistence agriculture. This paper uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070062
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The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty : 9-Year Evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program
Blattman, Christopher - 2018
In 2008, Uganda granted hundreds of small groups $400/person to help members start individual skilled trades. Four …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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