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Returns to Islamic Microfinance : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Pakistan

Maazullah, - - 2017

The global microfinance movement is driven by the claim that once poor micro-entrepreneurs are provided access to capital, they will be able to generate high returns. The existing evidence on returns to capital is mixed and too limited to substantiate this claim. This paper reports on a field...

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Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data

Tausch, Arno - 2016

Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are characterized by such low rates of female...

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Consequences of War : Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market

Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2021

This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and...

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Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?

Costa-Font, Joan; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2022

Uniform health care delivered by a mainstream public insurer Ã¢â ¬â such as the National Health Service (NHS), seldom satisfies heterogeneous demands for care, and some unsatisfied share of the population either use private health care, or purchase private insurance (PHI). One potential...

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Effect of Political Decentralization and Female Leadership on Institutional Births and Child Mortality in Rural Bihar, India

Kumar, Santosh - 2017

In this paper, we investigate the impacts of political decentralization and women reservation in local governance on … significant positive association between political decentralization and institutional births. We also find that the increased …

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Technical Efficiency, Unions and Decentralized Labor Contracts

Devicienti, Francesco - 2016

This paper explores the link between the presence of unions in the workplace, the adoption of decentralized labor agreements and technical efficiency, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We apply the Data Envelopment Analysis, and its robust version based on bootstrap theory, to...

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Fiscal Decentralization and Development : How Crucial is Local Politics?

Pal, Sarmistha - 2010

Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …

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Spatial Decentralization and Program Evaluation : Theory and an Example from Indonesia

Pitt, Mark Martin - 2010

This paper proposes a novel instrumental variable method for program evaluation that only requires a single cross-section of data on the spatial intensity of programs and outcomes. The instruments are derived from a simple theoretical model of government decision-making in which governments are...

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Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining

Dahl, Christian M. - 2011

This paper studies how decentralization of wage bargaining from sector to firm-level influences wage levels and wage … dispersion. We use detailed panel data covering a period of decentralization in the Danish labor market. The decentralization … decentralization. We find a wage premium associated with firm-level bargaining relative to sector-level bargaining, and that the return …

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Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2012

exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries. Using micro data from the Programme … political decentralization on student performance in the areas of mathematics, reading skills and science. We observe that … fiscal decentralization exerts an unequivocal positive effect on students' outcomes in all areas, while the effect of …

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