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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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not at all for the least developed country (Tanzania). Moreover, the breakdown in correct remuneration in the two least …
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HIV-prevention strategies have yielded only limited success so far in slowing down the AIDS epidemic. This paper …
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A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls' dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government's HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...
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I use a randomized experiment to test whether information can change sexual behavior among teenagers in Kenya …
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HIV/AIDS, but very little is known about the impact of this intervention on the welfare of children in the households of … household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya. We find that children's weekly hours …
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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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line with economic theory favoring direct cash transfers, in a randomized experiment in Kenya 95% of urban recipients … prefer mobile money over electricity transfers of a similar monetary value. But Kenya is an outlier with high mobile money … adoption: this increases its value and reduces transaction costs of buying electricity credit. By contrast, in Ghana …
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data set from rural Cameroon in which patients can choose between outcome and service based payments. We show that …
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