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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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9207
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Tanguy
Bernard
Markus
Frölich
Andreas
Landmann
Pia
Naima
Unte
Angelino
Viceisza
Fleur
Wouterse
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Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural produce through producer organizations. We conduct a cluster-randomized controlled ...
(published in: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2021, 50 (3), 465 - 484)
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D71, O12, Q13
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9206
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Yao
Pan
Stephen
C.
Smith
Munshi
Sulaiman
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Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda
This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2018, 100 (4), 1012–1031)
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O13, Q12, I30
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9205
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Qingwei
Meng
Mthuli
Ncube
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Can Intra-Regional Trade Act as a Global Shock Absorber in Africa?
The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to output and other shocks originated in the rest of the world. A comparison of two ...
(published in: World Economics, 2015, 16 (3), 141 - 162)
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E32, F4, F15
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9204
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Haroon
Bhorat
Ravi
Kanbur
Benjamin
Stanwix
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Minimum Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Primer
Although the sectors and fraction of workers covered are small given the low rates of formality and urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as the number of covered workers grows wage regulation ...
(published in: World Bank Observer, 2017, 32 (1), 21 - 74)
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J08, J20, J21, J30, J38
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9203
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Seth
Gershenson
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Performance Standards and Employee Effort: Evidence from Teacher Absences
The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) increased accountability pressure in U.S. public schools by threatening to impose sanctions on Title-1 schools that failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35(3), 615-638)
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J45, J48, J22, I2
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9202
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Seth
Gershenson
Stephen
B.
Holt
Nicholas
W.
Papageorge
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Who Believes in Me? The Effect of Student-Teacher Demographic Match on Teacher Expectations
Teachers are an important source of information for traditionally disadvantaged students. However, little is known about how teachers form expectations and whether their expectations are ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 209-224)
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I24, D84, J15, J16
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9201
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Joseph
J.
Sabia
Brittany
Bass
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Do Anti-Bullying Laws Reduce Youth Violence?
This study is the first to comprehensively examine the effect of state anti-bullying laws (ABLs) on youth violence. Using data from a variety of sources – including the Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, ...
(published as 'Do anti-bullying laws work? New evidence on school safety and youth violence' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (2), 473 - 502)
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I28
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9200
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Ulf
Zölitz
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School Quality and the Development of Cognitive Skills between Age Four and Six
This paper studies the extent to which young children develop their cognitive ability in high and low quality schools. We use a representative panel data set containing cognitive test scores of 4-6 ...
(published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10(7))
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I2, I24, J24
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9199
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Manuel
Bagues
Mauro
Sylos-Labini
Natalia
Zinovyeva
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Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter?
An increasing number of countries are introducing gender quotas in scientific committees. We analyze how a larger presence of female evaluators affects committee decision-making using information on ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (4), 1207–1238)
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J71, J16
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9196
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Laura
M.
Argys
Susan
L.
Averett
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The Effect of Family Size on Education: New Evidence from China's One Child Policy
Social scientists theorize that the inverse relationship between socio-economic status and family size represents a trade-off between the quality and quantity of children. Evaluating this hypothesis ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (1), 21 - 42)
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I21, J18
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