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Short-term impacts of targeted cash grants and business development services: experimental evidence from entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso

Grimm, Michael; Soubeiga, Sidiki; Weber, Michael - 2021

Most support programs targeted at small firms in low- and middle-income countries fail to generate transformative effects at a large scale due to bad targeting, too little flexibility, and the limited size of the support, among others. This paper assesses the short-term effects of a randomized...

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Rainfall risk and fertility : evidence from farm settlements during the American demographic transition

Grimm, Michael - 2016

shows that this effect is reduced if risk management devices such as irrigation systems, formal financial institutions or …

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Can training enhance adoption, knowledge and perception of organic farming practices? : evidence from a randomized experiment in Indonesia

Grimm, Michael; Luck, Nathalie - 2020

In many parts of the world, several decades of intensively applying Green Revolution technologies came at environmental costs, i.e. degraded water and soil quality as well as a loss of biodiversity. This has led to an increased interest in alternative farming systems such as organic farming,...

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Do cows have negative returns? : the evidence revisited

Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - 2014

This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...

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Slavery, education, and inequality

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2010

slave states. -- slavery ; development ; inequality ; institutions ; education …

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Origins and implications of family structure across Italian provinces in historical perspective

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2016

In this study we review the literature on the origins and implications of family structure in historical perspective with a focus on Italian provinces. Furthermore we present newly-collected data on three of the main features of family structure: female mean age at marriage, the female celibacy...

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Family structure and the education gender gap : evidence from Italian provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2014

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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Entrepreneurship in transition economies : the role of institutions and generational change

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market … Europe. We link these differences partly with the legacy of communist planning, which needs to be replaced with formal market …-supporting institutions. But many of these developments have now taken place, yet entrepreneurial activity still remains low in many places …

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Shadow economy and entrepreneurial entry

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010

We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of the shadow economy on entrepreneurial entry, utilising 1998-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient suggests a positive linear link between the size of...

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Do institutions have a greater effect on female entrepreneurs?

Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new …

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