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This paper studies the impact of a large debt relief program, intended to attenuate investment constraints among highly-indebted households in rural India. It isolates the causal effect of bankruptcy-like debt relief settlements using a natural experiment arising from India's Debt Relief Program...
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This paper investigates how the reduction of barriers to migration affected the decision of middle school graduates to attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in the timing of national identity card distribution,...
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The authors examine how a government-run cash transfer program targeted to poor mothers in rural Ecuador influenced the health and development of their children. This program is of particular interest because, unlike other transfer programs that have been implemented recently in Latin America,...
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This paper measures the impact of low-cost transport by rail in Malawi on the dispersion of agricultural commodities …
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between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare in rural Malawi. The paper analyzes the …
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was implemented in Malawi over a 12-month period, randomly assigning cassava-producing households to one of four … additionally demonstrates likely gross overestimation in international and ministerial statistics on cassava yields in Malawi. For …
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study conducted a randomized experiment in Malawi to test three alternatives: (a) assisting firms to obtain a business …
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registration. This paper provides initial results from an experiment in Malawi that randomly allocated firms into a control group …
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Malawi can be understood as a microcosm of institutional reform approaches in developing countries more broadly. A … paper presents a retrospective analysis of previous institutional reform projects in Malawi, as well as interviews with … Malawi-based development practitioners. The paper finds a plethora of interventions that, merely by virtue of appearing to be …
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There are severe geographical disparities in pupil-teacher ratios (PTR) across Malawi, with most teachers concentrated … placement of all teachers in Malawi and links it with data on school facilities and geo-spatial coordinates of commercial …
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