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The Depressing Effect of Agricultural Institutions on the Prewar Japanese Economy
Hayashi, Fumio - 2006
stay in agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466588
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Moving out of Agriculture : Structural Change in Vietnam
McCaig, Brian - 2013
discuss the role of reforms in agriculture, enterprises, and international integration in this process. In addition to the … drastic move of employment away from agriculture toward services and manufacturing, we also document the movement of workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459045
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Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth : 5-year Experimental Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia
Blattman, Christopher - 2019
We study two interventions for underemployed youth across five Ethiopian sites: a $300 grant to spur self-employment, and a job offer to an industrial firm. Despite significant impacts on occupational choice, income, and health in the first year, after five years we see nearly complete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479738
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The Effects of Decentralized and Video-based Extension on the Adoption of Integrated Soil Fertility Management – Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Hörner, Denise - 2019
adoption of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) among 2,382 farmers in Ethiopia using a randomized controlled trial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480000
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Productivity Dispersion and Persistence Among the World's Most Numerous Firms
Maue, Casey C. - 2020
A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that these differences persist through time, with important implications for the broader macroeconomy. These stylized facts derive largely from studies of manufacturing firms in wealthy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481882
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Africa's Manufacturing Puzzle : Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms
Diao, Xinshen; Ellis, Mia; McMillan, Margaret Stokes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of … the labor force employed in agriculture and declining productivity in modern sectors such as manufacturing. To shed light … firms, one for Tanzania covering 2008-2016 and one for Ethiopia covering 1996-2017. Our analysis reveals a dichotomy between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482562
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Does Food Aid Harm the Poor? Household Evidence from Ethiopia
Levinsohn, James - 2005
This paper uses household-level data from Ethiopia to investigate the impact of food aid on the poor. We find that food … aid in Ethiopia is "pro-poor." Our results indicate that (i) net buyers of wheat are poorer than net sellers of wheat, (ii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467639
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Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations : Evidence from Ethiopia
Abebe, Girum - 2018
We quantify foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants in districts that attracted a large greenfield foreign plant and districts where greenfield FDI was licensed but not yet operational. Treated and untreated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453253
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Occupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies : Experimental Evidence on the Income and Health Effects of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work
Blattman, Christopher - 2016
As low-income countries industrialize, workers choose between informal self-employment and low-skill manufacturing. What do workers trade off, and what are the long run impacts of this occupational choice? Self-employment is thought to be volatile and risky, but to provide autonomy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455997
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Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics : On the Roles of Risk and Ability
Santos, Paulo - 2016
southern Ethiopia, we find that heterogeneous and nonlinear wealth dynamics arise purely in adverse states of nature. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456054