Centre for the Study of African Economies

164 published titles

The measurement of dynamic poverty with geographical and intertemporal price variability : evidence from Rwanda

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Wage rates and job queues : does the public sector overpay in Ethiopia?

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When does delegation improve credibility? : central bank independence and the separation of powers

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The Ghanaian manufacturing sector 1991-1995 : firm growth productivity and convergence

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African economies in transition

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Crisis, adjustment and growth in Uganda : a study of adaptation in an African economy

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Why can Mauritius export manufactures and Ghana not?

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Investment and risk in Africa

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Measuring the productivity from indigenous soil and water conservation technologies with household fixed effects : a case study of hilly-mountainous areas of Bénin

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Does performance related pay for teachers improve student performance? : some evidence from India

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Does firm size really affect earnings?

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Do African manufacturing firms learn from exporting?

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Consumption risk, technology adoption and poverty traps : evidence from Ethiopia

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Land rights, power and trees in rural Ethiopia

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Orphanhood and the long-run impact on children

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Oil-dependence and civil conflict in Nigeria

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Fiscal renaissance in a democratic South Africa

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China, South Africa and the Lewis model

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Insurance and rural welfare : what can panel data tell us?

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What can teachers do to raise pupil achievement?

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Commodity prices, growth, and the natural resource curse : reconciling a conundrum

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Externality and framing effects in a bribery experiment

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Risk sharing, commitment and information : an experimental analysis

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Does aid mitigate external shocks?

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A multidimensional analysis of adaptation in a developing country context

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Bargaining for bribes under uncertainty

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Subjective well-being, disability and adaptation : a case study from rural Ethiopia

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Education and the poverty trap in rural China

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The curious case of son preference and household income in rural China

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Towards an objective account of nutrition and health in colonial Kenya : a study of stature in African army recruits and civilians, 1880-1980

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Interactions between short- and long-term health of children : a case from rural Ethiopia

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Hurricane Mitch and consumption growth of Nicaraguan agricultural households

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The returns to vocational training and academic education : evidence from Tanzania

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Does doing an apprenticeship pay off? : evidence from Ghana

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Private sector development and income dynamics : a panel study of the Tanzanian labour market

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Why do South Korean firms produce so much more output per worker than Ghanaian ones?

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Natural resource booms and inequality : theory and evidence

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Modeling technology and technological change in manufacturing : how do countries differ?

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Logistics and exports

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Risk sharing relations and enforcement mechanisms

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Some child cost estimates for South Africa

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Votes and violence : evidence from a field experiment in Nigeria

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Unemployment duration, job search and labour market segmentation : evidence from urban Ethiopia

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Aid and fiscal instability

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Need, merit or self-interest - what determines the allocation of aid?

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Natural resources, export structure and investment

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Intertemporal poverty measurement : tradeoffs and policy options

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Corruption and culture : an experimental analysis

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The effects of externalities and framing on bribery in a petty corruption experiment

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Combining top-down and bottom-up accountability : evidence from a bribery experiment

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Status and egalitarianism in traditional communities : an analysis of funeral attendance in six Zimbabwean villages

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Multi-sector inflation forecasting : quarterly models for South Africa

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"Monetary policy and inflation modeling in a more open economy in South Africa"

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Institutions for health care delivery : a formal exploration of what matters to health workers : evidence from Rwanda

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Does wealth inequality reduce the gains from trade?

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Is investment in Africa low despite high profits?

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Gender patterns in household health expenditure allocation : a study of South Africa

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Political connections and social networks in targeted transfer programmes : evidence from rural Ethiopia

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Elections and economic policy in developing countries

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Some issues in modeling and forecasting inflation in South Africa

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Homo Æqualis : a cross-society experimental analysis of three bargaining games

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A common factor approach to spatial heterogeneity in agricultural productivity analysis

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Guns and roses : the impact of the Kenyan post-election violence on flower exporting firms

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Econometrics for grumblers : a new look at the literature on cross-country growth empirics

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Democracy's Achilles heel or, how to win an election without really trying

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Determinants of the choice of migration destination

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Referral and job performance : evidence from the Ghana colonial army

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Vulnerability, risk management, and agricultural development

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Household separation and child well-being

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Political violence and social networks : experimental evidence from a Nigerian election

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Taboos, agriculture and poverty

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New evidence on class size effects : a pupil fixed effects approach

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Bridging the gender divide : an experimental analysis of group formation in African villages

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Can we evaluate network brokerage initiatives using data that are byproducts of the network broking process?

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Informal risk-sharing and poverty persistence

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Risk pooling, risk preferences and social networks

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Gradual trade liberalization and firm performance in Ethiopia

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Jobs, skills and incomes in Ghana : how has poverty halved?

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Learning & earning in Africa : where are the returns to education high?

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The returns to formality and informality in urban Africa

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On the evolution of the firm size distribution in an African economy

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The role of ethnic identity and economic issues in the 2007 Kenyan elections

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The dynamics of the informal economy

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Occupational choice and inequality traps

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Decentralization, accountability and the 2007 MPs elections in Kenya

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Who wants to work in a rural health post? : the role of intrinsic motivation, rural background and faith-based institutions in Rwanda and Ethiopia

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Dictator games in the lab and in nature : external validity tested and investigated in Ugandan primary schools

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Triggers and characteristics of the 2007 Kenyan electoral violence

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Research seeking to improve economic and social conditions for the poorest

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Does the rotten child spoil his companion? : spatial peer effects among children in rural India

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Health, nutrition and academic achievement : new evidence from India

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The relative effectiveness and costs of contract and regular teachers in India

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Parental education and child health : understanding the pathways of impact in Pakistan

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Selective mortality or growth after childhood? : what really is key to understand the puzzlingly tall adult heights in sub-Saharan Africa

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Why do cooperatives fail? : big versus small in Ghanaian cocoa producers' societies, 1930-36

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Using PDA consistency checks to increase the precision of profits and sales measurement in panels

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Are gifts and loans between households voluntary?

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The formation of community based organizations in sub-Saharan Africa : an analysis of a quasi-experiment

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ABC, 123 : can you text me now? : the impact of a mobile phone literacy program on educational outcomes

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The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer

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Household-level consumption in urban Ethiopia : the impact of food price inflation and idiosyntratic shocks

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Higher education and economic development in Africa : a review of channels and interactions

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Export subsidies in a heterogeneous firms framework : evidence from Colombia

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Trade liberalisation, skill-biased technical change and wages in developing countries : a model with heterogeneous firms

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Trade, skill-biased technical change and wages in Mexican manufacturing

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Do managers and experts agree? : a comparison of alternative sources of trade facilitation data

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The impact of North-South and South-South trade agreements on bilateral trade

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Are poor households credit-constrained or myopic? : evidence from a South African panel

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Aggregation versus heterogeneity in cross-country growth empirics

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Gender, social norms and household production in Burkina Faso

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Microfinance and gender empowerment

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Do elections matter for economic performance?

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Who gets to stay in school? : long-run impact of income shocks on schooling in rural Tanzania

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Heterogeneous returns and the persistence of agricultural technology adoption

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Is foreign aid fungible? : evidence from the education and health sectors

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Live aid revisited : long-term impacts of the 1984 Ethiopian famine on children

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Do natural resource revenues hinder financial development? the role of political institutions

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Local financial development and firm performance : evidence from Morocco

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Does abolishing fees reduce school quality? : evidence from Kenya

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Growth, inequality, and poverty reduction in developing countries : recent global evidence

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Financial crises and macro-prudential policies

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Intra-household efficiency : an experimental study from Ethiopia

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Understanding adoption of soil and water conservation techniques : the role of new owners

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Envy and agricultural innovation : an experimental case study from Ethiopia

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Network proximity and business practices in African manufacturing

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Terms of trade and growth of resource economies : a tale of two countries

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Are girls the fairer sex in India? : revisiting intra-household allocation of education expenditure

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When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? : evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

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Education, preferences, and household welfare

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Conflict of interest as a barrier to local accountability

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Does management matter? evidence from India

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Public capital in resource rich economies : is there a curse?

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Is the dragon learning to fly? : an analysis of the Chinese patent explosion

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Funeral insurance

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Social protection, efficiency and growth

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Growth and chronic poverty : evidence from rural communities in Ethiopia

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Political origins of financial structure

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Borders that divide : education and religion in Ghana and Togo since colonial times

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Optimal public investment, growth, and consumption : evidence from African countries

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The economics of the Arab spring

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Media freedom and democracy : complements or substitutes in the fight against corruption?

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Market integration and border effects in Eastern Africa

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Can rural public works affect agricultural wages? : evidence from India

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Greening Africa? : technologies, endowments and the latecomer effect

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Exchange rate arrangements in the transition to East African Monetary Union

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Was the Middle East's economic descent a legal or political failure? : debating the Islamic law matters thesis

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Growth of African economies : productivity syndromes and the importance of institutions

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China as a developmental state

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Interpersonal influence regarding the decision to vote within Mozambican households

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Learning by doing : skills and jobs in urban Ghana

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An inquiry into the use of illegal electoral practices and effects of political violence

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Tackling the largest global education challenge? : secular and religious education in northern Nigeria

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Ecology, trade and states in pre-colonial Africa

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Imachi nkwu : trade and the commons

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African polygamy : past and present

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A model of comparative advantage with matching in the urban Tanzanian labour market

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Stock market reactions to conflict diamond trading restrictions and controversies

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Climate, ecosystem resilience and the slave trade

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Growth of African economies : productivity, policy syndromes and the importance of institutions

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Housing and urbanization in Africa : unleashing a formal market process

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The determinants of earnings inequalities : panel data evidence from South Africa

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The local electoral impacts of conditional cash transfers evidence from a field experiment

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The origins of social contracts : attitudes toward taxation in urban Nigeria

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Labor Market Effects of Social Programs : Evidence from India's Employment Guarantee

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