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| Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini. |
| The construction of large dams is one of the most costly and controversial forms of public infrastructure investment in developing countries, but little is known about their impact. This paper studies the productivity and distributional effects of large dams in India. To account for endogenous placement of dams we use GIS data and the fact that river gradient affects a district's suitability for dams to provide instrumental variable estimates of their impact. We find that, in a district where a dam is built, agricultural production does not increase but poverty does. In contrast, districts located downstream from the dam benefit from increased irrigation and see agricultural production increase and poverty fall. Overall, our estimates suggest that large... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Dams; Development planning; Program evaluation; India; Public Economics; O21; O12; H43; H23. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28373 |
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| Mullally, Conner. |
| This essay is an evaluation of year one of the Rural Business Development (RBD) program for small rice farmers in León, Nicaragua. The RBD program is administered by the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and is designed to deliver agricultural extension advice and affordable credit in the form of inputs to farm households. This essay estimates the average impact of the program on rice yields and revenues utilizing inverse propensity score weighting combined with linear regression. In conducting statistical inference, it also accounts for the fact that agricultural outcomes are likely correlated over space in a small area such as the one studied here. The results suggest that the program had no impact on average, likely due to the presence of a severe... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Development; Program evaluation; Agricultural extension.; International Development. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/109664 |
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| Sinha, Nistha. |
| Despite the attractiveness of experiments from the perspective of program evaluation, there have been very few program experiments in the area of family planning. This paper evaluates an ongoing family planning program experiment in rural Bangladesh. The paper estimates the effect of mothers' program exposure on fertility and children's time allocation. The results show that while the program was effective in reducing fertility, it had no significant impact on children's school enrollment. However, the program appears to have significantly raised boys' participation in the labor force. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Fertility; Child labor; School enrollment; Program evaluation; Labor and Human Capital; J13; J22; I21. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28457 |
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| Nannicini, Tommaso. |
| This article presents a Stata program (sensatt) that implements the sensitivity analysis for matching estimators proposed by Ichino, Mealli, and Nannicini (Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming). The analysis simulates a potential confounder to assess the robustness of the estimated treatment effects with respect to deviations from the conditional independence assumption. The program uses the commands for propensity-score matching (att* ) developed by Becker and Ichino (Stata Journal 2: 358–377). I give an example by using the National Supported Work demonstration, widely known in the program evaluation literature. |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Sensatt; Sensitivity analysis; Matching; Propensity score; Program evaluation; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119280 |
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| Kandilov, Amy M.G.; Kandilov, Ivan T.; Liu, Xiangping; Renkow, Mitch. |
| We evaluate the impact of USDA’s low-cost broadband loan programs on the U.S. agricultural sector. The broadband loan programs increase access to high-speed internet in recipient communities, which can raise farm sales by increasing both farm output and prices received by producers. Further, high-speed internet may drive down costs by providing information on cheaper inputs and better management practices, leading to an overall improvement in farm profits. Using data from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 U.S. Census of Agriculture, we employ a panel difference-in-differences estimator, as well as a difference-in-differences propensity score matching estimator, to show that the two USDA broadband loan programs have positive impacts on farm sales, expenditure,... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Broadband loans; Program evaluation; Farm sales; Expenditure; And income; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Marketing; Public Economics; Q10. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103634 |
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