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The Ethnicity Distraction? Political Credibility and Partisan Preferences in Africa

Keefer, Philip - 2017

Much of the research on ethnicity, development and conflict implicitly assumes that ethnic groups act collectively in pursuit of their interests. Collective political action is typically facilitated by political parties able to make credible commitments to pursue group interests. Other work,...

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Ethnic Polarization and the Duration of Civil Wars

Reynal-Querol, Marta - 2016

The authors analyze the relationship between ethnic polarization and the duration of civil wars. Several recent papers have argued that the uncertainty about the relative power of the contenders in a war will tend to increase its duration. In these models, uncertainty is directly related to the...

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Can the Culture of Honor Lead to Inefficient Conventions? Experimental Evidence from India

Brooks, Benjamin A. - 2017

Experiments in the United States have found that pairs of individuals are generally able to form socially efficient conventions in coordination games of common interest in a remarkably short time. This paper shows that this ability is not universal. The paper reports the results of a field...

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Culture, Politics, and Development

Woolcock, Michael - 2017

Whether in the domains of scholarship or practice, important advances have been made in recent years in our understanding of how culture, politics, and development interact. Today?s leading theorists of culture and development represent a fourth distinctive perspective vis-?-vis their...

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Replication Redux : The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming

Ozier, Owen - 2019

In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...

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Learning from Power Sector Reform : The Case of Kenya

Godinho, Catrina - 2019

Two successive waves of reform have fundamentally altered the structure and organization of Kenya's vibrant power … complementary entities. Although the government retains majority ownership of the largest power utilities in the country (Kenya … Power, ~51 percent; KenGen, ~70 percent), Kenya has been able to position itself as one of the foremost destinations in the …

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Are They Really Being Served? : Assessing Effective Infrastructure Access and Quality in 15 Kenyan Cities

Gulyani, Sumila - 2019

This paper proposes a framework that examines three levels of access to infrastructure -- nominal, effective, and quality-adjusted access. Most conventional indicators measure nominal access -- whether a household has physical access to a service in or near the house. By contrast, effective...

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Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition Through Parent-Child Book-Sharing : A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya

Knauer, Heather Ashley - 2019

83- month-old children ages 24 to 83 months (n = 510) in rural Kenya. The first treatment group received storybooks …

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Education and Hiv/Aids Prevention : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Western Kenya

Duflo, Esther - 2017

The authors report results from a randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV/AIDS interventions in Kenya …

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The Economic Impact of Climate Change on Kenyan Crop Agriculture : A Ricardian Approach

Karanja, Fredrick K. - 2016

This paper measures the economic impact of climate on crops in Kenya. The analysis is based on cross-sectional climate … these, and also constraints on adaptation mechanisms. The results suggest that farmers in Kenya are aware of short …

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