Documents et rapports
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Vanishing Returns? Potential Returns and Constraints to Input Adoption among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8627 Date du document: 29 octobre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: 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 (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 131553 Date du document: 1 octobre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: 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 (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 109367 Date du document: 1 octobre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: 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 (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7699 Date du document: 7 juin 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: 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 (anglais)
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...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 103850 Date du document: 1 mars 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Leonard,Kenneth,Vasilaky,Kathryn