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More than 1.3 billion people lack access to electricity. The UN have proclaimed the goal of providing electricity to all by 2030. In recent years, Pico-Photovoltaic kits have become a lower cost alternative to investment intensive grid electrification. Using a randomized controlled trial we...
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in the number of green workers. We further show that subsidy-driven policies, rather than regulation-driven policies …
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facts exploiting a unique survey question on casteism in India, which we show is associated with rent-seeking. …
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in many developing countries. In our study in central India, we randomly assign villages to a campaign by rural public … them, or raise health awareness along with providing information on the universal cash-back LPG subsidy program or a … financial constraints and the importance of the design of public subsidy schemes in inducing regular usage of clean fuels. …
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RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …
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India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women … reservations ; gender ; NREGA ; India …
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We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted in 2009-2010 gave a randomly assigned group of municipalities the right to grant substantial cash bonuses to recently arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects...
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Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
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This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective bargaining agreements works councils are more likely...
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The social costs of rent seeking are generally evaluated with respect to rent dissipation. A common assumption is complete rent dissipation so that the value of a contested rent is the value of social loss. When rent seekers earn taxable income, there is interdependence between the social cost...
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