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In Sub-Saharan Africa, 600 million people live without electricity. Despite ambitions of governments and donors to invest in rural electrification, decisions about how to extend electricity access are being made in the absence of rigorous evidence. Using a novel dataset of 20,000 geo-tagged...
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investment and firm performance. We find that firm size and moderate competition is associated with higher intangible investment …, while firm age is associated with lower intangible investment. Examining firm performance, we find that higher investment is … not with higher productivity or profitability. The evidence suggests that intangible investment is associated with growth …
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Time use data facilitate deeper understanding of individual labor supply choices, especially for women, who are more likely to engage in unpaid care and home production. However, traditional time use data collection methods are time-consuming, expensive and susceptible to significant attrition....
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in rural Odisha, India. This is a group for whom highly-gendered norms around marriage, mobility and work are likely to …
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This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite … smooth consumption in rural India for the foreseeable future, as they have for centuries, unless alternative consumption …
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, we show that in rural India, for example, ARD surveys are 80% cheaper than full network surveys …
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knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural India, while randomized village assignment identifies knowledge …
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two districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. The net profit generated ignoring labour costs, gives rise to a small positive rate …
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provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …
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Using rural household survey data from West Bengal, we find that voters respond positively to excludable government welfare benefits but not to local public good programs, while reporting having benefited from both. Consistent with these voting patterns, shocks to electoral competition induced...
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