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Six randomised controlled trials designed to improve learning outcomes for disadvantaged children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Education investment represents a large fraction of the total investment in many developing countries, but the skills of many pupils lag far behind those of their peers in richer countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, limiting human capital development and economic growth. With improved enrolment rates in primary education, the next step in many developing...
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Building state capacity with market design
Government employees are often reluctant to be posted to remote or unfamiliar areas, either refusing to take certain assignments or taking assignments but living elsewhere, and demonstrating high rates of absenteeism. This weakens state capacity in these regions. Also, many developing countries are not only ethnically diverse, but suffer from ethnic conflict or have...
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Testing the impact of contracts to improve financial access for small firms
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Testing the impact of contracts to improve financial access for small firms
Access to finance for the purchase of productive assets is central to the success of small firms. This project studies three scalable financial instruments designed to address behavioural constraints that may limit small firms’ financial access, investment and technology adoption: asset-collateralised loans (ACLs); layaway contracts; and a hybrid layaway-ACL...
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Behavioural barriers to energy efficiency in development contexts: evidence from charcoal cookstoves
This project aims to quantify how behavioural biases and market frictions affect poor households’ adoption and usage of energy efficient durables. This will be the first paper to rigorously quantify the energy efficiency gap, causally identify the mechanisms driving this gap and estimate its welfare effects, and it will do so in a high-stakes development setting. In...
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Clientelism and the politics of social protection in Kenya
Social protection programmes, such as cash transfer programmes, are rapidly expanding in Africa. In principle, social programs are designed to alleviate poverty, and there is evidence that they can have a positive welfare impact. Yet social programs can also be subject to intense political manipulation, which can undermine their potential benefits. A crucial...
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Microfinance for clean cooking with LPG In Kenya: an evaluation of a pilot experiment and implications for future program roll-out
Lack of access to modern energy for cooking is responsible for a high mortality and impaired quality of life for millions of people in low and middle-income countries, who are exposed to hazardous smoke from cooking with biomass and kerosene. The use of clean cooking fuels in Kenya is less than 12% (DHS report 2014), resulting in an unsustainable demand for biomass...
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The struggle for South Sudan: Challenges of security and state formation
South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, has experienced a rocky start to its existence as an independent nation. Although fighting has reduced in most parts of the country due to the revitalised peace deal in September 2018, conflict and related violence continue. More than 4 million people have been forced to flee their homes, 200,000 of whom are sheltering in UN...