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Does wealth increase affect school enrolment in ultra-poor households: Evidence from an experiment in Bangladesh
(Practical Action Publishing, 2015-06)
Access to education is usually found to be highly correlated with household income and wealth. This correlation often instigates an expectation that increasing income of the poor households will lead to greater human capital ...
Moral hazard: Experimental evidence from tenancy contracts
(Oxford Academic, 2018)
Agricultural productivity is particularly low in developing countries. Output-sharing rules that make farmers less-than-full residual claimants are seen as a potentially important driver of low agricultural productivity. ...
Intentions to participate in adolescent training programs: Evidence from Uganda
(Oxford Academic, 2010-05-01)
Almost one-third of the population in developing countries is under age 15. Hence improving the effectiveness of policy interventions that target adolescents might be especially important. We analyze the intention to ...
Livelihood, cash Transfer, and graduation approaches: How do they compare in terms of cost, impact, and targeting?
(International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2018-10)
Social protection initiatives in Africa increasingly aim to institutionalize systems that guarantee assistance for the poor and protect the vulnerable against livelihood risks. Through direct and indirect income effects, ...
How sustainable are benefits from extension for smallholder farmers? Evidence from a randomized phase-out of the BRAC Program in Uganda
(SSRN, 2017-03-26)
Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ("sustainability"). Using a novel ...
Labor markets and poverty in village Economies
(Oxford Academic, 2017-03-20)
We study how women's choices over labor activities in village economies correlate with poverty and whether enabling the poorest women to take on the activities of their richer counterparts can set them on a sustainable ...
Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security: Evidence from Uganda
(Wiley Online Library, 2018-04-23)
We evaluate causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on technology adoption and food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary ...
Effects of food assistance: Evaluation of a food-for-training project in South Sudan
(Practical Action Publishing, 2017)
This chapter is part of the book titled What Works for Africa's Poorest: Poverty Reduction Programs for Extremely Poor People, which contains a unique cross-section of country-specific case studies from across Sub-Saharan ...