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Does the AIDS Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?

Bloom, David E. - 1995

This study examines the claim that the AIDS epidemic will slow the pace of economic growth. We do this by examining the … prevalence of AIDS and the rate of growth of GDP per capita. Our analysis uses well- established empirical growth models to … control for a variety of factors possibly correlated with AIDS prevalence that might also influence growth. We also account …

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Infrastructure, Incentives and Institutions

Ashraf, Nava - 2016

and corruption; fines lead to extortion of the innocent. Zambia has attempted to solve its problem with subsidies alone …

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Technology Adoption Under Uncertainty : Take-Up and Subsequent Investment in Zambia

Jack, B. Kelsey - 2015

Many technology adoption decisions are made under uncertainty about the costs or benefits of subsequent investments in the technology after the initial take-up. As new information is realized, agents may prefer to abandon a technology that appeared profitable at the time of take-up. Low rates of...

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Demand and Welfare Analysis in Discrete Choice Models with Social Interactions

Bhattacharya, Debopam - 2019

distribution-free bounds on welfare. We illustrate our results using experimental data on mosquito-net adoption in rural Kenya …

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Retrospective vs. Prospective Analyses of School Inputs : The Case of Flip Charts in Kenya

Glewwe, Paul - 2000

This paper compares retrospective and prospective analyses of the effect of flip charts on test scores in rural Kenyan schools. Retrospective estimates that focus on subjects for which flip charts are used suggest that flip charts raise test scores by up to 20 percent of a standard deviation....

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Optimal Financial Aid Policies for a Selective University

Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1982

Recent federal cut-backs of financial support for undergraduates have worsened the financial position of colleges and universities and required them to debate how they will allocate their scarce financial aid resources.Our paper contributes to the debate by providing a model of optimal financial...

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Foreign Aid and State Capacity

Deserranno, Erika - 2020

We document that, in rural Uganda, the entry of foreign aid reduces government provision of similar services because the organization that delivers aid often hires the government worker, thereby reducing state capacity. Access to any public services and population well-being worsen in villages...

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The Feldstein-Horioka fact

Giannone, Domenico - 2009

This paper shows that general equilibrium effects can partly rationalize the high correlation between saving and investment rates observed in OECD countries. We find that once controlling for general equilibrium effects the saving-retention coefficient remains high in the 70's but decreases...

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Instruments of development : Randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development

Deaton, Angus S. - 2009

There is currently much debate about the effectiveness of foreign aid and about what kind of projects can engender economic development. There is skepticism about the ability of econometric analysis to resolve these issues, or of development agencies to learn from their own experience. In...

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Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps

Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 2007

This paper studies the impact of aid volatility in a two-period model where production may occur with either a traditional or a modern technology. Public spending is productive and "time to build" requires expenditure in both periods for the modern technology to be used. The possibility of a...

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