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to purchase fertilizer. Consistent with the model, many farmers in Western Kenya fail to take advantage of apparently …
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unable for institutional reasons to diversify their loan risks either within agriculture or across other geographically …
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) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield …
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in a two-stage randomized field experiment in Kenya. We find that, for a new technology with a lower usage cost than the …
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Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive preferences consistent with behavioral features such as loss aversion …
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We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a non-profit organization were randomly assigned a teammate, a supervisor, and a list of individuals to canvass. This created random variation within teams in the degree of...
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using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
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Violent conflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption. This paper studies how firms react to electoral violence using the case of Kenyan flower exporters during the 2008 post-election violence as an example. The violence induced a...
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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 …
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a recent anti-poverty program in rural Kenya. Leveraging a large literature documenting a reliable relationship between …
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