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Working Paper

The Nollywood Nudge : An Entertaining Approach to Saving

Coville, Aidan; Di Maro, Vincenzo; Dunsch, Felipe Alexander; Zottel, Siegfried

This paper investigates the immediate and medium-term behavioral response to an emotional trigger designed to affect biases in intertemporal financial decisions. The emotional trigger is provided by a narrative portraying the catastrophic consequences of poor financia ...

This paper investigates the immediate and medium-term behavioral response to an emotional trigger designed to affect biases in intertemporal financial decisions. ...

This paper investigates the immediate and medium-term behavioral response to an emotional trigger designed to affect biases in intertemporal financial decisions. The emotional trigger is provided by a narrative portraying the catastrophic consequences of poor financial choices. Even when people are fully aware of the most appropri ...

428 downloads, 121 views

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Conflict, Household Victimization, and Welfare : Does the Perpetrator Matter?

Kaila, Heidi; Azad, M. Abul Kalam

This paper studies the relationship between conflict and household welfare by using a detailed panel data set of household victimization across the most conflict-affected regions in Nigeria between 2010 and 2017, during a time characterized by a sharp increase in conf ...

This paper studies the relationship between conflict and household welfare by using a detailed panel data set of household victimization across the most conflict ...

This paper studies the relationship between conflict and household welfare by using a detailed panel data set of household victimization across the most conflict-affected regions in Nigeria between 2010 and 2017, during a time characterized by a sharp increase in conflict. The North East region has been hardest hit with the recent ...

49 downloads, 167 views

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Sources of Manufacturing Productivity Growth in Africa

Jones, Patricia; Lartey, Emmanuel K.K.; Mengistae, Taye; Zeufack, Albert

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D’Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in comparison with the case of Bangladesh. Based on the analysis of establishment census data since the mid-1990s, it finds that reallocation of ...

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D’Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in comparison with the case of Bangladesh. Ba ...

This paper investigates the sources of growth in manufacturing productivity in Cote D’Ivoire, Ethiopia and Tanzania in comparison with the case of Bangladesh. Based on the analysis of establishment census data since the mid-1990s, it finds that reallocation of market share between firms contributed substantially to productivity gr ...

70 downloads, 423 views

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Jobs in Global Value Chains : New Evidence for Four African Countries in International Perspective

Pahl, Stefan; Timmer, Marcel P.; Gouma, Reitze; Woltjer, Pieter J.

What is the potential for job growth in Africa under participation in global value chains (GVCs)? In this study the concept of GVC jobs is introduced which tracks the number of jobs associated with GVC production of goods. A novel decomposition approach is used to acc ...

What is the potential for job growth in Africa under participation in global value chains (GVCs)? In this study the concept of GVC jobs is introduced which track ...

What is the potential for job growth in Africa under participation in global value chains (GVCs)? In this study the concept of GVC jobs is introduced which tracks the number of jobs associated with GVC production of goods. A novel decomposition approach is used to account for GVC jobs by three proximate sources: global demand for final ...

84 downloads, 164 views

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Impact of the West African Ebola Epidemic on Agricultural Production and Rural Welfare : Evidence from Liberia

de la Fuente, Alejandro; Jacoby, Hanan G.; Lawin, Kotchikpa Gabriel

The 2014-15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia was perhaps the hardest hit. The pathways through which the crisis affected economic activity in these largely agrarian societies remain poorly ...

The 2014-15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia was perhaps the hardest hit. The pathways ...

The 2014-15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia was perhaps the hardest hit. The pathways through which the crisis affected economic activity in these largely agrarian societies remain poorly understood. To study these mechanisms in the context of rural Liberi ...

53 downloads, 88 views

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Improving the Measurement of Rural Women's Employment : Global Momentum and Survey Research Priorities

Koolwal, Gayatri B.; Koolwal, Gayatri

Rural economies are in transition around the world; in many countries, improved technology and linkages across sectors have expanded access to markets and accelerated production for some farmers. At the same time, rural areas globally are facing a growing base of land ...

Rural economies are in transition around the world; in many countries, improved technology and linkages across sectors have expanded access to markets and accele ...

Rural economies are in transition around the world; in many countries, improved technology and linkages across sectors have expanded access to markets and accelerated production for some farmers. At the same time, rural areas globally are facing a growing base of landless and smallholder farmers, out-migration to urban areas, and ...

144 downloads, 214 views

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Measuring the Unmeasured : Combining Technology and Behavioral Insights to Improve Measurement of Business Outcomes

Anderson, Stephen J.; Lazicky, Christy; Zia, Bilal

Business survey outcomes for micro and small firms are notoriously noisy, with multiple sources of measurement and recall error. This paper introduces a new survey methodology that combines automatic consistency checks of electronic data collection with triangulation ...

Business survey outcomes for micro and small firms are notoriously noisy, with multiple sources of measurement and recall error. This paper introduces a new surv ...

Business survey outcomes for micro and small firms are notoriously noisy, with multiple sources of measurement and recall error. This paper introduces a new survey methodology that combines automatic consistency checks of electronic data collection with triangulation and dynamic adjustment to arrive at more precise estimates of bu ...

66 downloads, 117 views

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Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme : Improving Financial Sustainability Based on Expenditure Review

Wang, Huihui; Otoo, Nathaniel; Dsane-Selby, Lydia

Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was established in 2003 as a major vehicle to achieve the country’s commitment of Universal Health Coverage. The government has earmarked value-added tax to finance NHIS in addition to deduction from Social Security Trust (SSNIT) and premium payment. However, the scheme has ...

Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was established in 2003 as a major vehicle to achieve the country’s commitment of Universal Health Coverage. The government has earmarked value-added tax ...

Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was established in 2003 as a major vehicle to achieve the country’s commitment of Universal Health Coverage. The government has earmarked value-added tax to finance NHIS in addition to deduction from Social Security Trust (SSNIT) and premium payment. However, the scheme has been running under deficit since 2009 due to expansion of coverage, increase in service u ...

15751 downloads, 2064 views

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Understanding Economic Growth in Ghana in Comparative Perspective

Geiger, Michael; Trenczek, Jan; Wacker, Konstantin M.

Ghana has experienced a decade of solid and exceptionally high growth. Between 2005 and 2015, income nearly doubled. This paper analyzes the factors driving this impressive growth performance, using tools such as structural change decompositions and growth regressions ...

Ghana has experienced a decade of solid and exceptionally high growth. Between 2005 and 2015, income nearly doubled. This paper analyzes the factors driving this ...

Ghana has experienced a decade of solid and exceptionally high growth. Between 2005 and 2015, income nearly doubled. This paper analyzes the factors driving this impressive growth performance, using tools such as structural change decompositions and growth regressions. For the comparative perspective, the paper compares Ghana with ...

182 downloads, 135 views

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Measuring Farm Labor : Survey Experimental Evidence from Ghana

Gaddis, Isis; Oseni, Gbemisola; Palacios-Lopez, Amparo; Pieters, Janneke

This study examines recall bias in farm labor by conducting a randomized survey experiment in Ghana. Hours of farm labor obtained from a recall survey conducted at the end of the season are compared with data collected weekly throughout the season. The study finds tha ...

This study examines recall bias in farm labor by conducting a randomized survey experiment in Ghana. Hours of farm labor obtained from a recall survey conducted ...

This study examines recall bias in farm labor by conducting a randomized survey experiment in Ghana. Hours of farm labor obtained from a recall survey conducted at the end of the season are compared with data collected weekly throughout the season. The study finds that the recall method overestimates farm labor per person per plot ...

69 downloads, 73 views

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