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incorporating optimizing behavior to uncover the hidden costs of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh. We provide for the first time … capabilities as well as on the schooling attainment, occupational structure, entrepreneurship and incomes of the rural Bangladesh … of rural households in Bangladesh who are participants in a long-term panel survey following respondents and their …
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Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite strongly negative for most commodities, and...
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decompositions can be replicated, we make adjustments for certainty equivalence of rural household income streams which not only …
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, primarily in the area of insurance, but also in the diversification of asset holdings. We suggest in this paper that, with …, and towards a focus on insurance arrangements and the diversification of risks associated with climate change …
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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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It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
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household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed …
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interest to researchers - in our case, time allocations across market work, household labor, and leisure. Using survey …
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In many economic settings, agents lack decision rights but provide input. Intra-household decision-making in contexts … most common topic of intra-household disagreement in the sample. The treatment shifted women's communication styles towards …
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Despite its promise to help low-wealth households manage climate risk, index insurance remains hampered by downside basis risk, meaning that an insured party suffers a loss, but receives no payment because the insurance index fails to register a loss. While efforts to reduce basis risk focus on...
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