Documentos e informes
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Vanishing Returns? Potential Returns and Constraints to Input Adoption among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda (Inglés)
This paper estimates the profitability of fertilizer and hybrid seeds in Uganda, using agronomic evidence on the yield returns to inputs from experimental fields, as well as output price data from local...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS8627 Fecha del documento: 29 de octubre de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Hill,Ruth,Mejia-Mantilla,Carolina,Vasilaky,Kathryn
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Vanishing Returns? Potential Returns and Constraints to Input Adoption Among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda (Inglés)
This paper estimates the profitability of fertilizer and hybrid seeds in Uganda, using agronomic evidence on the yield returns to inputs from experimental fields, as well as output price data from local...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 131553 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Hill,Ruth,Mejia-Mantilla,Carolina,Vasilaky,Kathryn
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Empowering girls triggers their brothers to compete : Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda (Inglés)
This brief has key messages through an experiment in Uganda, we find that empowering adolescent girls triggers a surge in their brothers’ competitiveness.Understanding preferences for competition is important...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 109367 Fecha del documento: 1 de octubre de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Buehren,Niklas,Goldstein,Markus P.,Leonard,Kenneth,Montalvao Machado,Joao H. C.,Vasilaky,Kathryn
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Women's empowerment, sibling rivalry, and competitiveness: evidence from a lab experiment and a randomized control trial in Uganda (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS7699 Fecha del documento: 7 de junio de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Buehren,Niklas,Goldstein,Markus P.,Leonard,Kenneth,Montalvao,Joao,Vasilaky,Kathryn
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As good as the company they keep? : improving farmers’ social networks (Inglés)
Extension services have a history of being relatively expensive and not always effective. At the same time, studies show that informal social networks can be very beneficial in helping increase productivity...
Tipo de documento: Resumen Número del informe: 103850 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Leonard,Kenneth,Vasilaky,Kathryn