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In examining the study of government performance, this paper asks whether field experiments can improve the explanatory … precision of results generated by public opinion surveys. Survey research on basic health and education services sub …
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The Millennium Development Goals have become the frame of reference for most of the development community: the standard by which performance will ultimately be judged. Given their importance, considerable attention has been paid as to whether these goals will be met or not. The overwhelming...
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-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the … inverted-U association between self-reported health status and income inequality, which suggests that high inequality in a … community poses threats to health. We also find that high inequality increases the probability of health-compromising behavior …
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existing empirical literature of behaviour in firms, in local government and health services, and in co-operatives and …
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The paper deals with evaluating the adequacy of the assumption that in economic transactions people are self-interested insofar as they are motivated solely by the concern of maximizing their utility, and in particular with assessing how this assumption affects within-group behaviour.
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Behavioural economics highlights the role of social preferences in economic decisions. Further, populations are heterogeneous; suggesting that group composition may impact the ability to sustain voluntary public goods contributions. This parallels researc
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A number of studies document an in-group bias in social dilemma situations. While group structure and dynamics are important in shaping in-group favouritism, less attention has been paid to individual characteristics affecting favouritism. Using data from
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This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the …
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Labour market incomes have been a major contributor to the important fall in inequality in Latin America during the … 2000s. Indeed, it was the main contributor in countries where inequality fell more dramatically. A proper understanding of … the workings of the labour market is necessary to comprehend why inequality fell, what lies ahead of us and what we can do …
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A natural way of viewing an inequality or a poverty measure is in terms of the vector distance between an actual …
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