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The Search for Good Jobs : Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda
Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
years in Uganda's main cities. We examine how two standard labor market interventions impact their search for good jobs …
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Self-Employment Within the Firm
Bassi, Vittorio; Lee, Jay; Peter, Alessandra; Porzio, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We collect time-use data for entrepreneurs and their workers in over 1,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda. We …
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Some Children Left Behind : Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention
Buhl-Wiggers, Julie; Kerwin, Jason; Munoz-Morales, Juan S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We document substantial variation in the effects of a highly-effective literacy pro-gram in northern Uganda. The …
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Using Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning to Estimate the Livelihood Impact of Electricity Access
Ratledge, Nathan; Cadamuro, Gabriel; Cuesta, Brandon de la - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
data and inference challenges. In the context of an expansion of the electrical grid across Uganda, we show how a … estimate that grid access improves village-level asset wealth in rural Uganda by 0.17 standard deviations, more than doubling …
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Assessing Misallocation in Agriculture : Plots versus Farms
Aragon, Fernando M.; Restuccia, Diego; Rud, Juan Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
plot and farm levels. Using detailed data from Uganda, we show that the plot-level analysis leads to extremely large …
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How Important are Investment Indivisibilities for Development? Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Kaboski, Joseph Paul; Lipscomb, Molly; Midrigan, Virgiliu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Theoretically, indivisible investments together with financial frictions can lower development, generate poverty traps, and lead agents to become risk-loving. Using experimental cash grants involving a choice between a safer, low payoff and a riskier, large payoff lottery, we find that 27...
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Strategic or Confused Firms? Evidence from "Missing" Transactions in Uganda
Almunia, Miguel; Hjort, Jonas; Knebelmann, Justine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
net, unilateral VAT misreporting cost Uganda about US$384 million in foregone 2013-2016 tax revenue …
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Making Entrepreneurs : Returns to Training Youth in Hard Versus Soft Business Skills
Chioda, Laura; Contreras-Loya, David; Gertler, Paul J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
nationally representative sample in a 3-arm field experiment in Uganda, the 3.5 year follow-up demonstrated that training was …
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Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment On Public Procurement in Uganda
Colonnelli, Emanuele; Loiacono, Francesco; Muhumuza, Edwin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
supervisory and anti-corruption agency in Uganda. The first RCT aims to increase firms' information on available procurement …
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Achieving Scale Collectively
Bassi, Vittorio; Muoio, Raffaela; Porzio, Tommaso; Sen, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
manufacturing firms in Uganda, which uncovers an active rental market for large machines between small firms in informal clusters …
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