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On the Importance of African Traditional Religion for Economic Behavior
Butinda, Lewis Dunia; Lameke, Aimable Amani; Nunn, Nathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Within the field of economics, despite being widespread, African traditional religions tend to be perceived as unimportant and ignored when studying economic decision-making. This study tests whether this presumption is correct. Using daily data on business decisions and performance of beer...
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The Effects of Maternal Education Versus Cognitive Test Scores on Child Nutrition in Kenya
Bhargava, Alok; Fox-Kean, Melanie - 2004
education, cognitive test scores and morbidity spells. The model parameters are estimated using the maximum likelihood method … controlling for unobserved between-children differences. The main finding is that while maternal education was usually not a … development and of devising suitable educational programs for women without formal education …
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External impact of economic developments in U.S.A.
Adler, Solomon - 1955
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Infrastructure, Externalities, and Economic Development : A Study of the Indian Manufacturing Industry
Hulten, Charles R. - 2010
If infrastructure tends to generate spillover externalities, as has been the assumption in much of the development … the growth of the productivity residual of India's registered manufacturing …
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Contextualizing the COVID Pandemic in India : A Development Perspective
Gupta, Indrani (ed.); Das, Mausumi (ed.) - 2023
: assessing the roles of commodity characteristics, disease caseload and market reforms -- COVID-19 and Education in India: A New …An Unequal Recovery – The Income and Employment Fallout of the Pandemic -- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on India … Education Crisis in the Making -- The COVID-19 pandemic and gendered division of paid work, domestic chores and leisure …
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Globalization and development in India
Datta, Krittibas (ed.); Mishra, Savita (ed.) - 2022
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Can a raise in your wage make you worse off? A public goods perspective
Ghosh, Suman; Karaivanov, Alexander - Department of Economics, College of Business - 2005
We show that a seemingly paradoxical result is possible—an increase in one's wage can reduce one's welfare. Such outcome can occur in an economy populated by agents who value a private good bought using labor income and a public good produced by voluntary time contributions. A raise in the...
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Gender discrimination: causes, consequences and policies
Shikha - In: International journal of economic research 17 (2020) 2, pp. 177-185
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Values and norms matter : on the basic determinants of long-run economic development
Voigt, Stefan; Park, Sang-Min - 2008
Over the last couple of decades, it has become a commonplace to claim that institutions matterʺ for economic development. Yet, institutions are not exogenous but the result of hu-man action. It is argued here that the values and norms held by substantial parts of society’s members are an...
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