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Heterogeneous Impact Dynamics of a Rural Business Development Program in Nicaragua
Carter, Michael - 2016
We study the impacts of a rural development program designed to boost the income of the smallfarm sector in Nicaragua. Exploiting the random assignment of treatment, we find statistically and economically significant impacts on gross farm income and investment in productive farm capital. Using...
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Chiefs : Elite Control of Civil Society and Economic Development in Sierra Leone
Acemoglu, Daron - 2013
The lowest level of government in sub-Saharan Africa is often a cadre of chiefs who raise taxes, control the judicial system and allocate the most important scarce resource - land. Chiefs, empowered by colonial indirect rule, are often accused of using their power despotically and inhibiting...
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Flip the Switch : The Spatial Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935-1940
Kitchens, Carl - 2013
To isolate the impact of access to electricity on local economies, we examine the impact of the Rural Electrification Administration low-interest loans in the 1930s. The REA provided loans to cooperatives to lay distribution lines to farms and aid in wiring homes. Consequently, the number of...
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Contract Farming and Rural Transformation : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin
Arouna, Aminou - 2019
Contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. We present results from a field experiment on contract farming in a...
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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Angrist, Joshua D.; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2021
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the...
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Impact of Rural and Urban Hospital Closures on Inpatient Mortality
Gujral, Kritee - 2019
This paper uses a difference-in-difference approach to examine the impact of California's hospital closures occurring from 1995-2011 on adjusted inpatient mortality for time-sensitive conditions: sepsis, stroke, asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and acute myocardial infarction...
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Gender Discrimination in Job Ads : Theory and Evidence
Kuhn, Peter - 2015
We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret …
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Aggregation of Consumer Ratings : An Application to Yelp.Com
Dai, Daisy - 2012
Because consumer reviews leverage the wisdom of the crowd, the way in which they are aggregated is a central decision faced by platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2)...
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Politics 2.0 : The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation
Campante, Filipe R. - 2013
We investigate the causal impact of broadband Internet on political participation using data from Italy. We show that … emergence of new political entrepreneurs who used the Internet to convert the initial "exit" back into "voice". Overall, these … nuanced effects underscore the general equilibrium dynamic induced by the Internet …
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Learning from Seller Experiments in Online Markets
Einav, Liran - 2013
The internet has dramatically reduced the cost of varying prices, displays and information provided to consumers …
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