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This paper reports on a randomized field experiment that uses price incentives to address economic and gender … some degree of pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective. In terms of gender … inequality, the study finds that even small price incentives for female co-titling achieve almost complete gender parity in land …
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coincide with gains in agricultural productivity. The analysis also identifies significant gender-specific effects. Female …
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This paper investigates the presence of endogenous peer effects in the adoption of formal property rights. Using data from a unique land titling experiment held in an unplanned settlement in Dar es Salaam, the analysis finds a strong, positive impact of neighbor adoption on the household's...
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Input subsidy programs (ISP) often have two conflicting targeting goals: selecting individuals with the highest marginal return to inputs on efficiency grounds, or the poorest individuals on equity grounds, allowing for a secondary market to restore efficiency gains. To study this targeting...
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survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent … subject playing an important role, while gender and educational differences seem less important …
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gender bias. Second, the analysis finds a very large impact on investment and maintenance of soil conservation measures. This …
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higher average yields and were better able to manage food insecurity and shocks. This finding suggests that gender …
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. The study does not find evidence of other gender differences in the hiring process …
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Since the industrial revolution, the economic development of Western Europe and North America was characterized by continuous urbanization accompanied by a gradual phasing-in of urban land property rights over time. Today, however, the evidence in many fast urbanizing low-income countries points...
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This study exploits a natural experiment to investigate the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of households in rural Ethiopia. Public policies and customs created a situation where Ethiopian households could influence their usufruct rights to land via a demographic expansion of the...
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