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Can Improved Biomass Cookstoves Contribute to REDD+ in Low-Income Countries? Evidence from a Controlled Cooking Test Trial with Randomized Behavioral Treatments

Beyene, Abebe - 2017

This paper provides field experiment?based evidence on the potential additional forest carbon sequestration that cleaner and more fuel-efficient cookstoves might generate. The paper focuses on the Mirt (meaning ?best?) cookstove, which is used to bake injera, the staple food in Ethiopia. The...

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Inflation, Liquidity and Innovation

Evers, Michael P. - 2019

This paper presents a simple model with financial frictions where inflation increases the cost faced by firms holding liquid assets to hedge risky production against expenditure shocks. Inflation tilts firms' technology choice away from innovative activities and toward safer but return-dominated...

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Seeking Shared Prosperity Through Trade

Calì, Massimiliano - 2017

the bottom of the income distribution, namely through consumption, household production, and market-based labor activities …

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Dual Credit Markets and Household Access to Finance : Evidence from a Representative Chinese Household Survey

Cull, Robert J. - 2018

Using a new and representative data set of Chinese household finance, this paper documents household access to and … household finance, and wealth tends to be associated with better access to formal and informal finance. Better financial … positively associated with access to informal finance. Controlling for household characteristics, rural residents pay interest …

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The Improved Biomass Stove Saves Wood, But How Often Do People Use it? Evidence from a Randomized Treatment Trial in Ethiopia

Beyene, Abebe - 2017

This paper uses a randomized experimental design and real-time electronic stove use monitors to evaluate the frequency with which villagers use improved biomass-burning Mirt injera cookstoves in rural Ethiopia. Understanding whether, how much, and why improved cookstoves are used is important,...

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Improved Cook Stoves for Climate Change Mitigation? Evidence of Values, Preferences and Carbon Savings from a Choice Experiment in Ethiopia

Dissanayake, Sahan - 2018

This paper investigates household preferences for improved cook stoves using a choice experiment administered in rural … percent of household energy demand is fulfilled by biomass. Improved stoves use less firewood and produce less smoke, and they …

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Addressing Household Air Pollution : A Case Study in Rural Madagascar

Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017

Household air pollution is the second leading cause of disease in Madagascar, where more than 99 percent of households … monitor household air pollution in two towns in Madagascar, with a stratified sample of 154 and 184 households. Concentrations … quality of household air. Compared with traditional charcoal stoves, improved charcoal stoves were found to have no …

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A Conceptual Model of Incomplete Markets and the Consequences for Technology Adoption Policies in Ethiopia

Larson, Donald F. - 2017

show how choices made by agents supplying input services combine with household livelihood settings to generate …

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Does Input-Trade Liberalization Affect Firms'Foreign Technology Choice?

Bas, Maria - 2017

This paper studies the impact of input-trade liberalization on firms' decision to upgrade foreign technology embodied in imported capital goods. The empirical analysis is motivated by a simple theoretical framework of endogenous technology adoption, heterogeneous firms and imported inputs. The...

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ICT Use, Innovation, and Productivity : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Cirera, X. - 2017

This paper examines empirically the links between adoption of information and communications technology (ICT), defined as usage by firms, innovation, and productivity using firm-level data for a sample of six Sub-Saharan African countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, Kenya,...

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