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This thesis uses the Data Envelopment Analysis to analyze topics in economic history. All parts are concerned with productivity and efficiency. For the United States in the nineteenth century, it is shown that factories were more efficient than artisanal shops, and the hypothesis that regional...
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explored in panel data for Ethiopia. Historical rainfall distributions are used to identify the counterfactual consumption risk …
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With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates … worldwide. This paper describes the nature ofunemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants …
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is whether such threshold points exist in Pakistan and Ethiopia and, if so, where they are located. Methodologically, the … poverty thresholds. Third, it adds the first study for a South Asian country and makes a comparison with Ethiopia … households in the sample. In Ethiopia, the equilibrium is barely above the very low mean. This, together with the slow speed of …
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pastoralists in southern Ethiopia to study stochastic wealth dynamics among a very poor population. These data yield several novel …
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This study focused on the interrelationships among producer, auction and world prices. In so doing, it criticized previous studies and extended technique developed by Hansen (1999) to handle inferential biases occurring as a result of specification errors. The following results were found:...
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This paper synthesizes the results of five studies using household panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico … ever poor and the proportion of time spent in poverty are also explored for Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Russia. All the case …
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the formation of credit networks. It uses original data, collected in Southern Ethiopia, an environment where nonlinear … data from southern Ethiopia it is shown that this method yieldsestimates of the structure of social relations that are …
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insights from field research in Ethiopia, including personal interviews with relevant parties and direct observation of how …
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This paper examines the causal relationship between exporting and productivity using a ten years long plant-level panel data set from an annual census of Ethiopian manufacturing, rarely available in the sub-Saharan Africa. We exploited its length to trace the trajectory of TFP and other...
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