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households in rural Ghana. Results from 2-3 months after a randomized intervention show strong impacts on mental and physical …
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assignment to secondary school scholarships among 2,064 youths in Ghana, combined with 12 years of data, to establish that …
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biological mechanism, which are validated with micro-data from India, Indonesia and Ghana can jointly explain inter …
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In response to the Covid-19 crisis, 186 countries implemented direct cash transfers to households, and 181 introduced … adoption: this increases its value and reduces transaction costs of buying electricity credit. By contrast, in Ghana …
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conduct a new census of all local governments in Ghana to document a strong association between technology use and property … tax revenues than control collectors. Collectors using the new technology learned faster about which households in their …-use model in which technology allows revenue collectors to better allocate their time towards households that are the most …
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We show how to use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their associated high-level synthesis (HLS) compilers to solve heterogeneous agent models with incomplete markets and aggregate uncertainty (Krusell and Smith, 1998). We document that the acceleration delivered by one single FPGA is...
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settings. This study uses a large-scale, nationwide RCT in Ghana to show the external validity of four school …
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effort in northern Ghana respond to exogenous changes in income and wages using a randomized evaluation of a multi …
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Ghana, we analyze the effects of a major participatory development program on participation in, leadership of and investment … by preexisting political institutions, and on households' overall socioeconomic well-being. Applying theoretical insights …
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promotes protective risk mitigation behaviors early in the COVID-19 pandemic across four African countries (Ghana, Malawi …
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