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into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We test the model using data from the Uganda National Household Survey …
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years in Uganda's main cities. We examine how two standard labor market interventions impact their search for good jobs …
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We collect time-use data for entrepreneurs and their workers in over 1,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda. We …
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rich panel data from farms in Tanzania and Uganda, we estimate our model using a flexible specification in which we allow …
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experiment in peri-urban Uganda, and compare output levels across 1000 workers over isomorphic tasks and incentives, framed as …
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exposed across 1427 villages--in Uganda's 2016 elections. Working with civil society organizations, we designed the study to …
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In 2008, Uganda granted hundreds of small groups $400/person to help members start individual skilled trades. Four …
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A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that these differences persist through time, with important implications for the broader macroeconomy. These stylized facts derive largely from studies of manufacturing firms in wealthy...
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We document substantial variation in the effects of a highly-effective literacy pro-gram in northern Uganda. The …
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data and inference challenges. In the context of an expansion of the electrical grid across Uganda, we show how a … estimate that grid access improves village-level asset wealth in rural Uganda by 0.17 standard deviations, more than doubling …
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