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Rice, Derek. "Three Essays in Development Economics: First Nation Economic Development." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37633.

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This dissertation contains three essays in the economics of development. The first essay investigates the effects of the decentralization of governance over education to communities in terms of individual education outcomes. The next essay relates to the first by exploring the factors that drive communities to adopt decentralized governance, including forms of decentralized governance over education. The last essay returns to the topic of education by examining a policy aimed at decreasing the costs of post-secondary education for a minority group. Each essay probes these topics within the con
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Baiardi, Anna. "Essays in development economics and economic history." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/90133/.

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The first chapter provides an overview of the topics covered in this thesis. The second chapter explores the effect of historic gender division of labour during slavery on African American women’s performance in the labour market. Using census data from 1870 to 2010, I show that African American women living in areas with lower levels of gender division of labour were more likely to participate in the labour market and have higher occupation income scores after emancipation. The effects are persistent for at least 70 years after the end of slavery. I analyse the mechanisms driving the results,
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Wang, Shengzu 1978. "Economic policies in developing and emerging market economies : three essays in international and development economics." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115647.

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This thesis consists of three essays, which focus on different aspects of economic policy issues faced by developing and emerging market economies. The first essay explores the effect of monetary policy credibility on exchange rate volatility in a small open economy, even if the exchange rate is not an explicit target set by the monetary authority. Using an open economy framework modified from Gall and Monacelli (2005) and Walsh (2006), it shows that monetary policy credibility helps to stabilize the exchange rate as supply and demand side shocks hit the domestic economy. The monetary policy c
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Yamasaki, Junichi. "Essays on development economics and Japanese economic history." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3676/.

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This thesis consists of three independent chapters on development economics and Japanese economic history. The first chapter analyzes the effect of railroad construction in the Meiji period (1868–1912) on technology adoption and modern economic development. By digitizing a novel data set that measures the use of steam engines at the factory level and determining the cost-minimizing path between destinations as an identification strategy, I find that railroad access led to the increased adoption of steam power by factories, which in turn induced structural change and urbanization. My results su
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Garcia, Hombrados Jorge. "Empirical essays on development economics." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/73411/.

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This thesis investigates empirically three questions of key relevance for the life of disadvantaged people in developing countries. Using a sample of Ethiopian women and a regression discontinuity design exploiting age discontinuities in exposure to a law that raised the legal age of marriage for women, the first chapter documents for the first time (a) the effect of increasing the legal age of marriage for women on infant mortality and (b) the causal effect of early cohabitation on infant mortality. The analysis shows that, even though it was not perfectly enforced, the law that raised the le
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Rathke, Alexander [Verfasser]. "Essays in Monetary Economics and Economic Development / Alexander Rathke." Aachen : Shaker, 2011. http://d-nb.info/107408778X/34.

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NARCISO, GAIA. "Essays on political economics and development economics." Doctoral thesis, Università Bocconi, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11565/4051033.

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Booysen, Frederik Le Roux. "The measurement of economic development : alternative composite indices." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51995.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The success of policies aimed at economic development cannot be monitored and evaluated without development indicators. These indicators are also crucial in comparing levels of development across time and space so as to come a greater understanding of the development process. Yet, economic development does not mean the same thing to everyone. As a result, there exists a variety of indicators of economic development. Five main classes of development indicators are distinguished on the basis of the shift over time in our un
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Arvanitidis, Paschalis A. "Property market and urban economic development : an institutional economics approach." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288280.

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This thesis examines the relationship between the property market and urban economic development. The impetus for the research lies in the rapid process of urban economic change and the failure of economic approaches to explore adequately the important role of the property market in that process. The study draws on institutional economics to advance the argument that the property market as an institution is a mediator through which economic potential can be realised and served. Due to major philosophical and theoretical deficiencies in the area, focus is placed on the establishment of an appro
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Osafo-Kwaako, Philip. "Essays in Economic History and Development." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10718.

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Chapter 1 provides a brief overview of the recent literature in economic history and long-run development, and summarizes the main findings of the three essays presented in this dissertation. In Chapter 2, I examine the subject of villagization in Tanzania, a major episode of development planning in post-independence Tanzania. I revisit this period of Tanzania’s economic history, focusing on the legacy of developmental villages (vijiji uya maendeleo) introduced in mainland Tanzania over the period 1974-1982. Combining historical data on Tanzania from the 1970s with data from population censuse
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Maslyukivska, O. "Ecological economics as the economics of sustainable development." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2004. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/23063.

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Atallah, Samura. "Studies in Labor Economics, Organizational Economics, and Development." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:26718720.

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The first chapter in this dissertation discusses the results of a field experiment that lasted three weeks at a firm in Saudi Arabia where we randomized an attention to variability or mindfulness training program. We conducted a baseline and end-line survey 3 months post training, collecting measures on non-cognitive skills, beliefs, affect, and employee performance and productivity. The training program was incentivized as managers’ reports on employees’ performance get reflected in future raises and bonus pay. We converted the measures to z-scores (unit standard deviation, mean zero) to stan
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Pecha, Garzón Camilo José. "Essays on development economics." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/405342.

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Esta disertación es presentada como un compendio de tres ensayos que estudian los efectos de choques medioambientales y de política en el desarrollo físico de la infancia temprana y en algunas variables de resultado de la oferta laboral. En el primer ensayo, es analizado el efecto de sufrir el embate de tormentas tropicales en periodo de gestación sobre las medidas antropométricas de los niños tomadas en los primeros 5 años de vida. Se combinan índices de destrucción a nivel de distrito con 13 rondas anuales de la encuesta de hogares de Jamaica. La estrategia empírica explota la variación q
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Nimoh, Florence. "Essays in development economics." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/664670.

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En esta tesis doctoral, utilizo estrategias empíricas en economía aplicada para proporcionar evidencias cuantitativas que pueden ayudar a mejorar las políticas de bienestar en los países en desarrollo. Mi principal objetivo es comprender la efectividad de las políticas y cómo los factores económicos pueden alterar las decisiones de las personas. En el capítulo 1, Evaluación de las políticas educativas sobre las tasas de matriculación en Ghana, analizo el impacto de las políticas educativas implementadas en Ghana en 2004 y 2005 sobre las tasas de matriculación en el nivel escolar básico. Est
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Heusch, Niklas. "Essays in development economics." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/663490.

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This thesis combines three independent articles. In the first chapter, I examine the health care that drug sellers, common medical providers in many developing coun-tries, provide for childhood illness in Ghana, and study its determinants. Overall, I find the quality of treatment to be poor and provide evidence that this is caused by low knowledge of drug sellers, rather than low effort or adverse financial in-centives; a simulation exercise suggests that adequate treatment would not reduce drug sellers’ profits or increase clients’ expenditures. In the second chapter, I examine rural-urban m
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Arshad, Junaid. "Essays in development economics." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/38497.

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This dissertation consists of three essays in development economics. The first essay is concerned with competition between two processing mills in the sugarcane market of Pakistan. I develop a two-stage duopsony game where, in the first period, mills fragmentize the market by investing in the procurement logistics and infrastructure to create captive segments in the market. In the second stage, mills take the segmentation given and compete in prices. The model endogenously determines the market fragmentation. In equilibrium, complete segmentation of the market emerges, mills buy cane from mutu
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Bjorkegren, Daniel Ingvar. "Essays in Development Economics." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11358.

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Economic development is often associated with the adoption of new technologies. The three chapters in this dissertation ask how societies can achieve efficient adoption of these technologies. The first two chapters analyze the dramatic spread of a new communication technology---the mobile phone---in the East African country of Rwanda, using transaction data. Many technologies important for the modern economy are network goods; these goods tend to diffuse inefficiently in the absence of careful policy design. The first chapter introduces a new method to estimate the value of a network good, and
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Reed, Tristan. "Essays in Development Economics." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11390.

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Lopez, Pena Paula. "Essays in development economics." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2018. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/109831/.

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This thesis consists of three chapters, which address different but related research questions, using original data collected during extensive field work in Bangladesh. Chapter one studies the impact of training in stress management on firm outcomes in Bangladesh. 310 female owners were recruited and one-half was randomly offered a 10-week training based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the current best practice treatment for chronic stress. The other half was assigned to an active control group and received empathetic listening. Initially, CBT reduces stress levels but does not affect profits
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Ammon, Kerstin Christina. "Essays in development economics." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/92086/.

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This thesis is a collection of three essays studying firms in low income countries. The first chapter explores how relational contracts that substitute for formal contracts in the presence of weak institutions, are affected by changes to the outside option of one of the parties. I investigate this question by assessing how a change in the pay-off of cultivating an alternative crop by farmers affects the relationship with downstream buyers in the sugar industry in colonial Taiwan (1895-1945). Using novel historic sugar mill level data, I analyse effects on interlinked lending and the provision
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Chen, Daniel. "Essays in development economics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28818.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2004.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>(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 with social violence in regions that are more economically distressed. Credit availability mitigates this effect. These results support the ex-post social insurance model of re
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Hernández, Sara. "Essays on development economics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101514.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2015.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-97).<br>This thesis 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 to understand how export shocks affect violence at the municipality level. I show that flower shocks lead t
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Ruthbah, Ummul Hasanath. "Essays on development economics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38609.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2007.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>This dissertation is a collection 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 them when they are old. Children also help parents to smooth consumption over their life cycle. They send remittances when parents are old and have relat
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Keniston, Daniel Eben. "Essays in development economics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65488.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2011.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-113).<br>Chapter 1 looks at the empirical estimation of the welfare impacts of bargaining. Bargaining for retail goods is common in developing countries, but rare in the developed world. The welfare implications of this difference are theoretically ambiguous-if bargaining is a low cost form of price discrimination, it may lead to greater trade and welfare and even approximate the optimal incentive compatible outcome. However,
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Shenoy, Ashish, Emily Breza, and Arun G. Chandrasekhar. "Essays in development economics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104494.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2016.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Chapter two co-authored with Emily Breza and Arun Chandrasekhar.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>This dissertation 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 investments in the Indian dairy sector. In the third chapt
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Carvalho, Irineu E. (Irineu Evangelista) 1971. "Essays in development economics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41802.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2000.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>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 minimum value for benefits. As a consequence, elderly rural workers and their households found a substantive increase in their non-labor incomes. Because old-age benefits for ru
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Breierova, Lucia 1976. "Essays in development economics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17569.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2003.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>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, between the lack of male circumcision and HIV prevalence. The Luo ethnic group, who does not generally practice male circumcision, had a much larger increase in the HIV prevalence r
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Harari, Mariaflavia. "Essays in development economics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103505.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2016.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159).<br>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 urban footprints in India over time, using satellite data on nighttime lights and historic maps. I propose an instr
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Zucker, Ariel D. (Ariel Dama). "Essays on development economics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120239.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2018.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219).<br>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 increase efficacy for myopic agents relative to patient ones: increasing the frequency of incentive payments, and making t
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Mantovanelli, Federico. "Essays in Development Economics." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3793.

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Thesis advisor: Scott Fulford<br>Thesis advisor: Mathis Wagner<br>This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter investigates how the historical development of Protestantism may contribute to explain current literacy disparities in India. Combining information about the spatial distribution of Protestant missions in India at the end of the nineteenth century with contemporary district-level data, I find a strong long-term relationship between the historical exposure to Protestant missions and current literacy. I then verify that this relationship is not driven by unobserved ch
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Trias, J. M. "Essays on development economics." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1395926/.

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Chapter 1 investigates the impact of weather-related income shocks on infant mortality in rural Ecuador. I find that favorable weather conditions during the growing season have a negative effect on infant survival rates when the harvest takes place during the first and third trimester of pregnancy, and the first trimester following birth. My results suggest that the negative effects of an increased ma- ternal labour supply, following a positive agricultural productivity shock, during pregnancy and the first trimester after birth outstrip the positive effects resulting from the consequent highe
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Kirchberger, Martina. "Essays in development economics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1ee9ff16-cb50-447a-8e20-f9e5865334d6.

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This thesis comprises three stand-alone chapters: The first chapter is on the effect of natural disasters on labor markets. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey, the Desinventar database, the US Geological Survey and district level employment indicators, we explore how a large earthquake in Indonesia affected local labor markets, in particular the evolution of wages and employment across sectors. We find that wage growth in the agriculture sector is significantly higher in earthquake affected areas. We propose two mechanisms for this result and show evidence for both mechanisms. Th
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Rud, Juan Pablo. "Essays on development economics." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2008. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2184/.

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This thesis presents three papers that contribute to the measurement and understanding of the process of economic development. In particular, I deal with issues of significant importance in the current literature in development economics: the provision and regulatory institutions of infrastructure, firms and industries' behaviour and performance, and the process of human capital accumulation and its link to gender issues. In Chapter 2 I investigate the effect of electricity provision on industrialization using a panel of Indian states from 1965-1984. To address the endogeneity of investment in
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Moscoso, Miranda Henry Bernard. "Essays in Development Economics." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672623.

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Development economics seeks to provide evidence to improve life quality standards of the societies. This thesis contributes to this field with a multidisciplinary research on health, environmental and crime economics. This essay is composed of 3 academic papers that analyze actual social problems that have received little attention by policy makers and scholars, and that are negatively affecting newborns health and women wellbeing, in the context of Ecuador. The pivotal economic literature has shown the relevance of studying the impact of different types of externalities on health at birth a
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Cassidy, Rachel. "Essays in development economics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:211fd89c-c31a-4d68-99c1-157e5a58b9b2.

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The thesis comprises three chapters on the microeconomics of development. The first chapter consists of a lab-in-field experiment in rural Pakistan. I test whether anticipated changes in individuals' liquidity constraints can cause individuals spuriously to appear "present-biased" or "future-biased". The design uses experimental windfalls to create fully exogenous variation in subjects' liquidity constraints. The results suggest that the effect of liquidity constraints on "present-bias" and "future-bias" in monetary tasks exists, is large, and does not operate via changing cognitive function o
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Islam, Mahnaz. "Essays on Development Economics." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17465323.

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This dissertation studies agricultural technology adoption, child labor and development. Although adoption of fertilizers has been high in South Asia, farmers may fail to use it efficiently. Besides higher costs incurred by households engaged in agriculture, inefficient use of fertilizers may also have negative consequences for the environment. The first chapter of this dissertation uses a field experiment in Bangladesh to study whether providing farmers access to a simple rule-of-thumb tool (leaf color chart) to manage the timing of fertilizer applications can improve efficiency of fertilizer
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Trucco, Laura Carolina. "Essays in Development Economics." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23845454.

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Economic development, more often than not, is tightly connected to good governance and adequate provision of public goods and services. My dissertation examines characteristics of developing countries that are relevant to the quality of government, as they affect the interaction between citizens and government. In chapter 1, I focus on squatters and the opportunities for political intermediation associated with the lack of property rights on land. In this chapter, I study an extensive land titling program in urban Mexico and its effect on clientelism. In chapter 2, I examine the costs of party
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Lichand, Guilherme Finkelfarb. "Essays in Development Economics." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493343.

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Chapter 1 studies the effects of fighting corruption on public service delivery. While corruption crackdowns have been shown to effectively reduce missing government expenditures, their effects on public service delivery have not been credibly documented. This matters because, if corruption generates incentives for bureaucrats to deliver those services, then deterring it might actually hurt downstream outcomes. The chapter exploits variation from an anti-corruption program in Brazil, designed by the federal government to enforce guidelines on earmarked transfers to municipalities, to study thi
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Deserranno, Erika. "Essays in development economics." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3262/.

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This thesis contains three chapters that fall under the broad banner of development economics, with a particular focus on the study of mechanisms and strategies that improve public goods delivery. The first chapter studies the role of financial incentives as signals of job attributes when these are unknown to potential applicants. I create experimental variation in expected earnings and use it to estimate the effect of financial incentives on candidates’ perception of a newly created health worker position in Uganda and, through this, on the size and composition of the applicant pool. I find t
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Molina, Campodonico Oswaldo. "Essays on development economics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:68f7a892-da8d-4104-a948-79cab1357d42.

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This thesis is a collection of essays on the relevance of property right reforms on the wellbeing of poor households in developing countries; specifically titling programmes in urban Peru. The first essay assesses the effects of titling on housing investment. The availability of a unique dataset permits us to trace households' investment behaviour. This allows us to investigate if tenure security induces households to make sizeable investments, the evolution of this effect over time, and whether heterogeneous expectations about future tenure security matter for the estimated impact. Evidence r
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Trako, Iva. "Essays on Development Economics." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH043/document.

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Le chapitre 1 évalue l'impact d'une politique publique au Pérou visant à améliorer l'accès à la justice et à réduire la violence contre les femmes. Ce chapitre utilise des données sur les centres de justice pour femmes (CJF) au Pérou, des institutions spécialisées qui emploient principalement des femmes et fournissent des services de police et des services juridiques pour réduire la violence fondée sur le genre. En examinant le déploiement progressif des CJF dans les districts, nous constatons que l'ouverture d'un centre augmente de 40 % le nombre de signalements de crimes spécifiques au genre
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Ugochukwu, Michael Anyanwu. "Essays in Development Economics." Doctoral thesis, Luiss Guido Carli, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11385/201071.

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This thesis is a combination of two essays in development economics that explores the implication of income inequality and capital liberalization on economic development. The first essay — Income Inequality, Rent-seeking and Economic Growth in Resource Abundant Countries, revisits the debate on the relationship between income inequality and economic growth. Prevailing research on the inequality-growth nexus suggests that inequality has a negative impact on economic growth of a country. In addition to the relationship between inequality and economic growth, this essay reviews studies th
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BONAN, JACOPO DANIELE. "Essays in development economics." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/46828.

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Gaps in financial access remain stark in the largest part of developing countries and have relevant consequences on poor households’ economic decisions, such as credit, saving and risk management. Lack of availability of formal financial services provided by either the market or public authorities (e.g in case of health insurance) have been compensated by the activity of informal groups, associations and arrangements. Old and new forms of community-based groups have been largely documented in most of developing countries and are shown to be active in several crucial economic domains. They have
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STADENBERG, IDA. "Innovative Cluster Organizations in Tanzania : A Minor Field Study evaluating cluster performance and actor collaborations within the clusters included in ISCP-Tz." Thesis, KTH, Nationalekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-198691.

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Cluster Organizations, as a means of promoting competition and innovation in industrial clusters, have become increasingly popular over the world. Cluster organizations aim to increase growth and competitiveness of clusters within a region, and have become a central part of economic policy-making across the world. Recently, the concept has been used to a larger extent as a tool for economic development and poverty alleviation. This thesis seeks to examine the cluster organizations that are part of the Sida funded program Innovation Systems and Cluster development in Tanzania (ISCP-Tz), by eval
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Hu, Guohua. "The state (re)production of scale : a case study of Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone, China." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2020. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/854.

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The scale is a fundamental yet controversial concept in human geography. Among diverse views over scale, this thesis draws insights from the process-based approach of scale jumping. It is a key notion to understand scale as a process, yet few explorations have been made on making use of its methodological values. Thus this thesis seeks to elaborate the notion by redeveloping it as an analytical framework. Four key elements are therefore concerned: (a) actors and their purposes; (b) directions; (c) approaches; and (d) outcomes. These elements form a framework to investigate the rescaling proces
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Spash, Clive L., and Tone Smith. "Of Ecosystems and Economies: Re-connecting Economics with Reality." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2019. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6903/1/sre%2Ddisc%2D2019_03.pdf.

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This discussion paper looks at the connections between economies and ecosystems, or more generally biophysical reality. The term "economies" is used, rather than "the economy", because of the prevalent false claim that there is only one type of economic system that is possible. We outline how the ecological crises is linked to the dominant drive for economic growth and the tendency to equate growth with progress and development; common even amongst those apparently critical of the need for continued growth in the materially rich countries. The unreality of mainstream economics is epitomi
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Chiang, Alvin L. "Three Essays in Economic Development, Growth, and Trade." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3485.

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This dissertation is composed of three essays and analyzes the effects of both health outcomes and international trade on economic development and growth. In the first chapter, I develop a theoretical model using a Nelson-Phelps framework in order to establish a causal relationship between health outcomes and economic growth. I also econometrically test this approach to quantify the magnitude of the effects observed. Using the international epidemiological transition as a baseline and instrumental variable regression, I find that both life expectancy growth rates and initial levels of life exp
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Ncala, Thembekile. "The political economy of oil in Nigeria: How oil's impact on rent distribution has contributed to Nigeria's sub-optimal economic performance." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22938.

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Nigeria is an oil-rich country, and one of the largest oil producers in the world, however, its economic and developmental statistics have consistently ranked among the worst in the world. This paradox is widely believed to be a result of the natural resource curse. The natural resource curse is a phenomenon attributed to the inverse relationship between economic growth rates and the natural resource abundance of countries, and several notions have been put forward as to the mechanism through which the curse arises. These notions are generally categorised as either market-based explanations or
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Vika, Lutho. "Gender dynamics in the South African apparel value chain: a case study on the Western Cape province." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22975.

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Since the early 2000s, South Africa's once thriving sector started to whither due to a combination of domestic and international factors. The result was a sharp decline in manufacturing output, low productivity levels, factory closures and massive job losses across the sector. The blow to the industry was exasperated by the surge of cheap imports, both legal and illegal, primarily coming from China. The poor performance and consequent contraction of the industry had a profound impact on the predominately female workers. In recent years, however, the clothing industry has started to stabilise a
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Adaiah, Keren Lilenstein. "Integrating indicators of education quantity and quality in six francophone African countries." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20561.

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Research and policy-making in education have historically focused on quantitative measures of education when assessing the state of education across countries. Recently, large-scale cross-national tests of cognitive skills have emerged as one way of moving beyond mere quantitative indicators of education, and instead allow researchers to incorporate qualitative elements of education, most notably what students know and can do. Notwithstanding the above, research and development initiatives too often assess these complementary aspects separately, which can lead to biased conclusions. To resolve
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