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Compensating Wage Differentials and AIDS Risk

DeSimone, Jeff - 2004

We examine the effect of HIV/AIDS infection risks on the earnings of registered nurses (RNs) and other health care … workers by combining data on metropolitan statistical area (MSA) AIDS prevalence rates with annual 1987 --2001 Current … wages of control groups that are likely not exposed to AIDS risks and group-specific MSA fixed effects, a 10 percent …

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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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Distinguishing Constraints on Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP, TFP, and Inequality

Dabla-Norris, Era - 2015

We develop a micro-founded general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and three dimensions of financial inclusion: access (determined by a participation cost), depth (determined by a borrowing constraint), and intermediation efficiency (determined by a monitoring cost). We find that the...

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Mobile Money : The Economics of M-PESA

Jack, William - 2011

paper, we report initial results of two rounds of a large survey of households in Kenya, the country that has seen perhaps …

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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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Information Constraints and Financial Aid Policy

Scott-Clayton, Judith - 2012

One justification for public support of higher education is that prospective students, particularly those from underprivileged groups, lack complete information about the costs and benefits of a college degree. Beyond financial considerations, students may also lack information about what they...

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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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