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Assortative Matching in Africa : Evidence from Rural Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, and Malawi (英语)
This paper documents novel evidence of positive assortative matching in African marriage markets along cognitive and socio-emotional skills, time and risk preferences, and education, using data from rural...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS8943 文件日期: 2019年7月22日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Boxho,Claire Elise,Donald,Aletheia Amalia,Goldstein,Markus P.,Montalvao,Joao,Rouanet,Lea Marie
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Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights : Experimental Evidence From Rural Uganda (英语)
Traditional customary land tenure systems often limit women’s land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.In an ongoing experiment in rural Uganda, we offered households fully-subsidized land titles and basic information...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 135873 文件日期: 2019年4月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Cherchi,Ludovica,Goldstein,Markus P.,Habyarimana,James Paul,Montalvao,Joao,O'Sullivan,Michael B.,Udry,Chris,Gruver,Ariel Rose
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Sex, Lies, and Surveys : The Role of Interviewer Characteristics (英语)
This paper examines how easily observable interviewer characteristics, such as gender and physical attractiveness, and more difficult to observe characteristics, such as attitudes and beliefs, affect adolescent...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS8732 文件日期: 2019年2月7日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Koroknay-Palicz,Tricia,Montalvao,Joao
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Soft skills for hard constraints : evidence from high-achieving female farmers (英语)
Most women farmers in developing countries engage in subsistence agriculture. Previous research highlights a variety of barriers hindering women’s ability to participate in the production and marketing...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 117351 文件日期: 2017年7月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Montalvao,Joao,Frese,Michael Dr.,Goldstein,Markus P.,Kilic,Talip
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Soft skills for hard constraints : evidence from high-achieving female farmers (英语)
This paper documents the positive link between the noncognitive skills of women farmers and the adoption of a cash crop. The context is Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, where the majority...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS8095 文件日期: 2017年6月8日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Montalvao,Joao,Frese,Michael Dr.,Goldstein,Markus P.,Kilic,Talip
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Women's empowerment, sibling rivalry, and competitiveness: evidence from a lab experiment and a randomized control trial in Uganda (英语)
This study looks at how a community event—adolescent women's economic and social empowerment -- and a family factor -- sibling sex composition—interact in shaping gender differences in preferences for...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS7699 文件日期: 2016年6月7日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Buehren,Niklas,Goldstein,Markus P.,Leonard,Kenneth,Montalvao,Joao,Vasilaky,Kathryn