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intertemporal plans. This paper implements an artefactual field experiment in Malawi to test the ability of households to manage a …
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Considerations of risk and vulnerability are key to understanding the dynamics of poverty in rural Malawi. This study … results show that many households in rural Malawi are vulnerable to poverty, although, as with many other studies of rural …
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To explain persistent gender gaps in market outcomes, a lab experimental literature explores whether women and men have innate differences in ability (or attitudes or preferences), and a separate field-based literature studies discrimination against women in market settings. This paper posits...
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poorest countries in the world — Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda — all located in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The first finding is …
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This paper hypothesizes that labor and credit market imperfections—by discouraging off-farm income-generating activities and restricting access to inputs, respectively—affect female farm productivity more deeply than male productivity. The paper develops a theoretical model that decomposes...
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This paper draws lessons from an original randomized experiment in Malawi. In order to understand why roads in …
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Malawi has experienced several catastrophic droughts over the past few decades. The impact of these shocks has been far … reaching, and the resulting macroeconomic instability has been a major constraint to growth and poverty reduction in Malawi … using rainfall data from 23 weather stations throughout Malawi and uses daily rainfall as an input to predict maize yields …
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There are severe geographical disparities in pupil-teacher ratios (PTR) across Malawi, with most teachers concentrated … placement of all teachers in Malawi and links it with data on school facilities and geo-spatial coordinates of commercial …
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This study uses data from the complete computerization of agricultural leases in Malawi, a georeferenced farm survey ….5 million hectares, or 25 percent, of Malawi's agricultural area is under agricultural estates, analysis shows that 70 percent …
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impacts of the floods that occurred during the 2014/15 growing season in Malawi, using a two-period panel data set. The …
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