Documents et rapports
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The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change : Fighting HIV with MTV (anglais)
This paper tests the effectiveness of an entertainment education television series, MTV Shuga, aimed at providing information and changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8998 Date du document: 9 septembre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Banerjee,Abhijit,La Ferrara,Eliana,Orozco Olvera,Victor Hugo
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Entertainment, Education, and Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence (anglais)
The authors study attitudes towards domestic violence in a sample of young women and men exposed to the edutainment TV series MTV Shuga 3, which features a sub-plot on this theme, and in a sample that...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 137010 Date du document: 1 mai 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Banerjee,Abhijit,La Ferrara,Eliana,Orozco Olvera,Victor Hugo
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Customary norms, inheritance, and human capital : evidence from a reform of the matrilineal system in Ghana (anglais)
The authors study the role of traditional norms in land allocation and human capital investment. The authors exploit a policy experiment in Ghana that increased the land that children from matrilineal...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 122570 Date du document: 1 octobre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: La Ferrara,Eliana,Milazzo,Annamaria
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Empowering women through land tenure regularization : evidence from the impact evaluation of the national program in Rwanda (anglais)
Given that Rwanda is one of the most densely populated countries on the planet, pressure on land has long been considered as a serious hindrance to its development, and -by some scholars- even as one of...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 97833 Date du document: 5 mai 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ali, Daniel,Deininger,Klaus W.,Goldstein,Markus P.,La Ferrara,Eliana
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Determinants of participation and transaction costs in Rwanda's land markets (anglais)
Land markets play a limited role in subsistence economies with low skill-intensity of agricultural cultivation, equally distributed land endowments and little movement out of agriculture to join the non-farm...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 99426 Date du document: 5 mai 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ali,Daniel Ayalew,Deininger,Klaus W.,Goldstein,Markus P.,La Ferrara,Eliana,Duponchel,Marguerite Felicienne
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The reform of mechanisms for foreign exchange allocation : theory and lessons from sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
Administrative exchange allocation has been common in developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Steps to dismantle or modify these control mechanisms have been carried out through traditional...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1268 Date du document: 31 mars 1994 Auteur: La Ferrara,Eliana,Castillo, Gabriel,Nash, John