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Showing 1 to 20 of 196 for “"development economics"”.
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Essays in development economics
… of child labour is a temporary stage of economic development. In this case human capital inequalities are temporary. But the results also show that under reasonable assumptions child labour may show long run persistence and human capital distribution may exhibit polarization. The novel feature of …
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Essays on development economics
This thesis studies three questions in development economics. Chapter 1, co-authored with Shilpa Aggarwal and Rebecca Dizon-Ross, explores how the design of incentives should vary with the time preferences of agents. We formulate predictions for two incentive contract variations that should …
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Essays in Development Economics
This thesis comprises three chapters. The first essay studies the effects of flexible work arrangements on female labor force participation in West Bengal. The second essay considers the effects of mobile internet on educational outcomes in Brazil. The third essay examines how information about the …
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Essays in development economics
This thesis consists of three essays in development economics. The first chapter investigates urban form in India. I focus on one of the determining factors of urban commuting efficiency, highlighted by urban planners but overlooked by economists: city shape. I retrieve the geometric properties of …
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Essays in development economics
This dissertation brings together three essays on the relationship between education, health, and family structure in developing countries. The first essay studies the impact of the AIDS epidemic on children's schooling in Kenya. I draw on the relationship, established in previous literature, …
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Essays on Development Economics
… that can impede their economic growth and development. These challenges manifest in several areas, including firms, governments, and households. Firms operating in these environments often encounter significant constraints, such as limited access to credit, poor contract enforcement, …
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Essays in development economics
In 1991, a reform was passed changing the rules for social security for rural workers in Brazil. The reform consisted of a reduction in the minimum eligibility age for old-age benefits, an extension of benefit eligibility to workers who are not the heads of their households, and an increase in the …
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Essays in development economics
… examines three current topics related to development economics. In the first chapter I investigate spatial variation in earnings and the cost of internal migration in Thailand. The second chapter explore the unintended consequences of low accountability that accompany large technological …
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Essays in development economics
… that are both central to the study of firms in development, and potentially difficult to identify using randomized variation alone. Chapter 3 documents an attempt to overcome the challenges of police reform in the Indian state of Rajasthan, evaluated through a series of RCT (Randomized Control …
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Essays on development economics
… of three independent papers in empirical development economics. The first chapter studies the effect of a family planning program in Bangladesh, which successfully reduced fertility, on households' asset accumulation. In developing countries parents expect their children to take care of …
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Essays on development economics
… is a collection of three chapters in empirical development economics. The first chapter investigates the impact of the dramatic growth of the fresh-cut flower industry in Colombia on different forms of violence. My empirical strategy exploits variation in the geo-climatic suitability for flowers …
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Essays in development economics
(cont.) social activities. These results are unlikely to be driven by omitted environmental variables: social violence increases fastest where participation in Koran study also increases the fastest, and this is not true for state or industrial violence. Religious intensity is more strongly linked …
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Essays in Empirical Development Economics
… three empirical chapters that examine issues in development economics. Chapter 1 focuses on the effects of civil wars on the welfare of individuals. I use a unique data set that contains information on war casualties of the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, and exploit the variation in war intensity and …
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Three Essays in Development Economics
… help achieve four of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) endorsed by the United Nations (UN) to be achieved by 2030: ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, ensure access to water and sanitation for all. The …
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Three Essays in Development Economics
… policies for facilitating egalitarian economic development. I explore these issues in my research through empirical microeconomics and impact evaluation.
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Three Essays in Development Economics
This dissertation is comprised of three independent essays that address, respectively, spousal violence and female employment in Colombia, inequality of opportunity in adult health in Colombia, and welfare of rural Peruvian households. The evidence presented in the first essay, ”Intimate Partner …
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Three essays on development economics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Three essays in development economics
The student, Chitra Jogani, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-07-03 at 16:12.
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Three essays in development economics
This thesis seeks to analyze two questions central to the economic welfare of rural households in developing countries: the trade-offs between equity and efficiency induced by hybrid forms of property rights, and the decisions made by households in the process of human capital accumulation, …
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