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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment … conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in which farmers were randomly assigned to receive cash grants, grants of or … leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint …

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Regional Policy Evaluation: Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in differences estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...

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Cross-Country Growth Comparison: Theory to Empirics

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper reviews the cross-country record of economic growth, using as organizing framework how economic theory has guided that empirical analysis. The paper argues that recent studies of economic growth - both empirical and theoretical - distinguish from previous work in three distinct ways:...

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Empirics for Economic Growth and Convergence

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The convergence hypothesis has generated a huge empirical literature: this paper critically reviews some of the earlier key findings, clarifies their implications, and relates them to more recent results. Particular attention is devoted to interpreting convergence empirics. The main findings...

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Volatility, Financial Development and the Natural Resource Curse

Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Cross-country evidence is presented on resource dependence and the link between volatility and growth. First, growth depends negatively on volatility of unanticipated output growth independent of initial income per capita, the average investment share, initial human capital, trade openness, the...

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Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean S.; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

random subset of farmers who (endogenously) did not borrow. These farmers have lower – in fact zero – marginal returns to the … grants. Thus we find important heterogeneity in returns to investment and strong evidence that farmers with higher marginal …

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A Second Look at the Pesticides Initiative Program: Evidence from Senegal

Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, Mélise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether the Pesticides Initiative Program has significantly affected the export performance of Senegal's horticulture industry. We apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-difference and matching difference-in-differences to identify the effect of the...

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Profitability of fertilizer: Experimental evidence from female rice farmers in Mali

Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean S.; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In an experiment providing fertilizer grants to women rice farmers in Mali, we found that women who received fertilizer …. This highlights that farmers respond to an increase in availability of one input by re-optimizing other inputs, making it … small compared to other sources of variation. This may make it difficult for farmers to observe the impact of fertilizer on …

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The Regulation of Land Markets: Evidence from Tenancy Reform in India

Besley, Timothy J.; Leight, Jessica; Pande, Rohini; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

While the regulation of tenancy arrangements is widespread in the developing world, evidence on how such regulation influences the long-run allocation of land and labor remains limited. To provide such evidence, this paper exploits quasi-random assignment of linguistically similar areas to...

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Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit

Duflo, Esther; Glennerster, Rachel; Kremer, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper is a practical guide (a toolkit) for researchers, students and practitioners wishing to introduce randomization as part of a research design in the field. It first covers the rationale for the use of randomization, as a solution to selection bias and a partial solution to publication...

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