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Set-asides and subsidies are used extensively in government procurement and natural resource sales. We analyze these policies in an empirical model of U.S. Forest Service timber auctions. The model fits the data well both within the sample of unrestricted sales where we estimate the model, and...
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environments across two distinct societies: the Maasai in Tanzania and the Khasi in India. One unique aspect of these societies is …
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not at all for the least developed country (Tanzania). Moreover, the breakdown in correct remuneration in the two least …
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The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...
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In this paper, we quantify market access in rural Tanzania, and the extent to which it constrains agricultural …,183 villages in two regions of Tanzania. We find that a village in the 90th percentile of the travel-cost adjusted price …
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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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The purpose of this article is to study the effect of education on labor market participation and household consumption … education, I find that education increases household consumption, especially in agriculture and in nonfarm self …
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attainment that resulted from an intensive distribution of iodized oil capsules (IOC) in Tanzania. We look for evidence of … estimated effect on education. Cross-country regression estimates corroborate the results from Tanzania, indicating a strong …
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This paper examines the relationship between household income shocks and child labor. In particular, we investigate the … extent to which transitory income shocks lead to increases in child labor and whether household access to credit mitigates … the effects of these shocks. Using panel data from a survey in Tanzania, we find that both relationships are significant …
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We use a field experiment in Tanzania to compare the effectiveness on learning of two teacher performance pay systems …
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