Tessa Bold
Tessa Bold is Chair of Development and International Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her research interests include: Applied microeconomics and microeconometrics, microeconomic foundations of macroeconomics, group and network formation, contract theory, public and organizational economics, political economy.
Content by Tessa Bold
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Publication - Working Paper
The impacts of rural electrification on labour supply, income and health: Experimental evidence with solar lamps in Tanzania
13 Feb 2018 | Anna Aevarsdottir, Nick Barton , Tessa Bold
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Project
Making agricultural extension work by embedding extension workers into the supply chain
The low productivity of African agriculture is a major reason for poverty on the sub-continent. While a green revolution has transformed rural livelihoods in large parts of Asia, most rural Africans still engage in subsistence farming. Uganda is a good case study in how dysfunctional agricultural markets undermine economic opportunity. The adoption of fertiliser and...
7 Nov 2016 | Jakob Svensson, Tessa Bold, Tim Ohlenburg
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Blog post
Sub-standard quality of fertilisers and hybrid seeds makes adoption of modern inputs unprofitable
With the introduction of new technologies such as fertiliser and hybrid seeds, agricultural productivity has experienced an unprecedented rise in the past decades in almost all parts of the world. But not in Sub-Saharan Africa. This blog examines a recent IGC study examining the fertilisers available in Sub-Saharan Africa. It turns out that there is a huge variation in...
21 Dec 2015 | Tessa Bold
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Publication - Policy Brief
Low quality, low returns, low adoption
18 Sep 2015 | Tessa Bold, Kayuki Kaizzi, Jakob Svensson, David Yanagizawa-Drott
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Project
Rural electrification: The potential and limitations of solar power
National grids in many African countries still struggle to provide reliable electricity to many of their citizens, especially in rural areas. Decentralised, small-scale solar panels have been proposed as one solution to the electrical impasse many rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa currently face. This project provides much needed experimental evidence both on...
4 Sep 2015 | Anna Aevarsdottir, Nick Barton , Tessa Bold
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Publication - Working Paper
Low quality, low returns, low adoption: Evidence from the market for fertilizer and hybrid seed in Uganda
1 Jun 2015 | Tessa Bold, Kayuki Kaizzi, Jakob Svensson, David Yanagizawa-Drott
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Project
Dealing with fake agricultural inputs
Technology adoption in African agriculture is very low, constraining productivity and income for the rural population There is ample anecdotal evidence of fake agricultural inputs, but little empirical proof of the magnitude of the issue IGC research shows that retail-level inputs tend to be of poor quality, partly explaining poor adoption ...
22 Apr 2015 | Jakob Svensson, Tessa Bold
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Project
Improving Services Delivery: An Assessment of Absenteeism Data
Teacher absenteeism remains a serious challenge in Uganda, with estimated rates of absence as high as 27 per cent. Evidence from other countries suggests that a monitoring scheme, combined with bonus payments, could reduce absenteeism, and improve education performance. However, it is unclear what form this scheme should take. Automated monitoring via cameras or punch cards...
11 Dec 2014 | Jakob Svensson, Andrew Zeitlin, Tessa Bold, Kjetil Bjorvatn
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Project
The high returns to low-cost private schooling in a poor country
While research from the U.S., Latin America and Asia provides little evidence that private schooling leads to greater educational attainment relative to public schooling, new research from the developing world suggests the opposite. New research examining the case of private schooling in Kenya from Tessa Bold (University of Frankfurt), Mwangi Kimenyi (Brookings...
28 Aug 2014 | Andrew Zeitlin, Tessa Bold, Justin Sandefur, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Mukhtar Abdi Ogle, Mwangi S. Kimenyi
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Publication - Policy Brief
Scaling-up Proven Education Interventions: Evidence from an RCT in Kenya (Policy Brief)
31 Mar 2012 | Tessa Bold, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Justin Sandefur
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Publication - Working Paper
Scaling-up Proven Education Interventions: Evidence from an RCT in Kenya (Working Paper)
31 Mar 2012 | Tessa Bold, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Alice Ng'ang'a, Justin Sandefur
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Publication - Policy Brief
The High Return to Low-Cost Private Schooling in a Developing Country (Policy Brief)
1 Mar 2012 | Tessa Bold, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Justin Sandefur
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Publication - Working Paper
Private schooling cheaper and more effective than public alternative (Working Paper)
28 Feb 2012 | Tessa Bold, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Justin Sandefur
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Project
Scaling-up Education Reforms in Kenya: An Evaluation of the Nationwide 'Teacher Internship Programme'
This project will evaluate the nationwide roll-out of a controversial education programme in Kenya that has already been shown to raise student performance in small-scale randomized trials. In the process the project will provide insights on the external validity of micro evaluations, and on the political economy of scaling-up effective interventions. In August 2009 the...
1 Apr 2010 | Justin Sandefur, Tessa Bold, Mwangi S. Kimenyi, Germano Mwabu, Mukhtar Abdi Ogle, Paul Wasanga