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) econometrics. At the current juncture, from the policy-making perspective, combining network econometrics based on the notion of … could focus on advancing structural general equilibrium econometrics to cover multiple markets together with network … econometrics to consider the interaction of heterogeneous agents …
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. The analysis is applied in the context of education interventions, although the findings generalize to other areas. First …
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Goal progress is likely tobe too slow to meet education and health sector targets in a number of developing countries. The … versus supply-side factors in social service utilization in education and health. The review arrives at the following rules …
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A textbook provision program in Sierra Leone demonstrates how volatility in the flow of government-provided learning inputs to schools can induce storage of these inputs by school administrators to smooth future consumption. This process in turn leads to low current utilization of inputs for...
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What are the common characteristics among radicalized individuals, willing to justify attacks targeting civilians? Drawing on information on attitudes toward extreme violence and other characteristics of 30,787 individuals from 27 developing countries around the world, and employing a variety of...
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The paper estimates the effect of product standards on firms? export decisions using two novel datasets. The first covers all exporting firms in 42 developing countries. The second covers pesticide standards for 243 agricultural and food products in 63 importing countries over 2006?12. The...
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The authors argue that the academic literature, both qualitative and quantitative, has mislabeled most episodes of large-scale violence in Africa as civil war; these episodes better fit their concept of regional war complexes. The paper seeks to highlight the fundamental flaws in the conception...
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Large-scale simulation-based studies rely on at least three properties of pseudorandom number sequences: they behave in many ways like truly random numbers; they can be replicated; and they can be generated in parallel. There has been some divergence, however, between empirical techniques...
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The construction industry accounts for about one-third of gross capital formation. Governments have major roles as clients, regulators, and owners of construction companies. The industry is consistently ranked as one of the most corrupt: large payments to gain or alter contracts and circumvent...
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complete their primary education lacking even basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills?the so-called "learning crisis … and pedagogical knowledge on student achievement. These findings point to an urgent need for improvements in education …-experimental literature on education in low-income countries can be interpreted and understood, and point to important gaps in knowledge, with …
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