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Das, Jishnu - 2016

The authors report on a survey of primary public and private schools in rural Pakistan with a focus on student achievement as measured through test scores. Absolute learning is low compared with curricular standards and international norms. Tested at the end of the third grade, a bare majority...

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Impacts of Prospera on Enrollment, School Trajectories, and Learning

Behrman, Jere - 2019

Many studies have demonstrated that Mexico's conditional cash transfer program, PROSPERA, has substantial effects on educational attainment. Nevertheless, little evidence exists on whether increases in time spent in school have led to higher learning in the context of the poor areas where...

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Debiasing on a Roll : Changing Gambling Behavior Through Experiential Learning

Abel, Martin - 2017

This paper tests experiential learning as a debiasing tool against gambling and lottery behavior in South Africa. The study implemented a simple, interactive dice game that simulates worsening winning odds of rolling sixes as more dice are added to the game. The analysis exploits two levels of...

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Re-Kindling Learning : Ereaders in Lagos

Habyarimana, James P. - 2018

Empirical literature on digital technologies for student learning is generally unable to identify separately whether learning gains arise from reciprocity in response to the gift of a valuable gadget (the' gadget effect') or from increasing exposure to relevant materials (the' content effect')....

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Yield Impact of Irrigation Management Transfer : Story from the Philippines

Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit - 2016

Irrigation management transfer is an important strategy among donors and governments to strengthen farmer control over … water and irrigation infrastructure. This study seeks to understand whether irrigation management transfer is meeting the … Philippines to estimate the impact of irrigation management transfer on irrigation association performance and on rice yields …

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Endogenous Irrigation : The Impact of Climate Change on Farmers in Africa

Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep - 2016

Previous Ricardian analyses of agriculture have either omitted irrigation or treated irrigation as though it is … exogenous. In practice, it is a choice by farmers that is sensitive to climate. This paper develops a choice model of irrigation … in the context of a Ricardian model of cropland. The authors examine how climate affects the decision to use irrigation …

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Changing Farm Types and Irrigation as an Adaptation to Climate Change in Latin American Agriculture

Mendelsohn, Robert O. - 2016

This paper estimates a model of a farm that treats the choice of crops, livestock, and irrigation as endogenous. The … model is composed of a multinomial choice of farm type, a binomial choice of irrigation, and a set of conditional land value … adapt their choice of farm type and irrigation to their local climate. The results should help governments develop effective …

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Climate Change, Irrigation, and Israeli Agriculture : Will Warming Be Harmful?

Fleischer, Aliza - 2016

. They find that it is important to include the amount of irrigation water available to each farm in order to measure the … response of farms to climate. With irrigation water omitted, the model predicts that climate change is strictly beneficial. But …

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Understanding the Agricultural Input Landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa : Recent Plot, Household, and Community-Level Evidence

Sheahan, Megan - 2020

improved technologies, particularly improved seed, fertilizers and other agro-chemicals, machinery, and irrigation. Yet …

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Salt of the Earth : Quantifying the Impact of Water Salinity on Global Agricultural Productivity

Russ, Jason Daniel - 2020

, including increased water extraction, poor irrigation management, and sea-level rise. To date no study has attempted to quantify …

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