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1“...Access to and use of mobile telephony in sub-Saharan Africa has increased dramatically over the past decade. Mobile telephony has brought new possibilities to...”
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2by Jenny C. Aker Published in American economic journal. Applied economics (01.07.2010)“...Price dispersion across markets is common in developing countries. Using novel market and trader-level data, this paper provides estimates of the impact of...”
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3“...Mobile phone coverage has expanded considerably throughout the developing world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. Existing evidence suggests that...”
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4“...Information and communications technologies have spread rapidly in developing countries. We investigate the impact of mobile phones on traders' search behavior...”
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5by Jenny C. Aker Christopher Ksoll Travis J. Lybbert Published in American economic journal. Applied economics (01.10.2012)“...The returns to educational investments hinge on whether such investments can improve the quality and persistence of educational gains. We report the results...”
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6by Aker, Jenny C Published in Agricultural economics (01.11.2011)“...Agriculture can serve as an important engine for economic growth in developing countries, yet yields in these countries have lagged far behind those in...”
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7“...The widespread growth of mobile phone coverage worldwide has offered new potential for increasing rural households’ access to information and public and...”
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8by Aker, Jenny C Ksoll, Christopher Published in Economic development and cultural change (01.04.2020)“...Can information technology preserve the short-term learning gains associated with adult education programs? This study estimates the medium-term impacts of a...”
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9by Aker, Jenny C Collier, Paul Vicente, Pedro C Published in The review of economics and statistics (01.05.2017)“...African elections often reveal low levels of political accountability. We assess different forms of voter education during an election in Mozambique. Three...”
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10by Aker, Jenny C Boumnijel, Rachid McClelland, Amanda Tierney, Niall Published in Economic development and cultural change (01.10.2016)“...Cash transfers have become an increasingly important component of social protection policies in both developed and developing countries. While such programs...”
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11by Aker, Jenny C Sawyer, Melita Goldstein, Markus O'Sullivan, Michael McConnell, Margaret Published in World development (01.04.2020)“...•An intervention that provided access to a simple savings device was widely used by rural households in Niger.•The lockbox did not have a statistically...”
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12by Quattrochi, John Aker, Jenny C van der Windt, Peter Voors, Maarten Published in World development (01.03.2020)“...The work of Nobel Laureates Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer has centered around the use of randomized control trials to help solve development problems. To date,...”
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13by Aker, Jenny C Klein, Michael W O'Connell, Stephen A Yang, Muzhe Published in Journal of development economics (01.03.2014)“...This paper uses unique high-frequency data on prices of two agricultural goods to examine the additional costs incurred in cross-border trade between Niger and...”
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15by Aker, Jenny C Published in The World Bank economic review (01.02.2017)“...Despite recent calls in support of cash transfers, there is little rigorous evidence of the relative impacts of cash versus in-kind transfers, especially in...”
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16“...The widespread growth of information and telecommunication technologies (ICTs) in rural areas of developing countries offers new opportunities to provide more...”
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17“...Teacher absenteeism is an important obstacle to sustained learning gains in many developing countries. We report the results from a randomized evaluation of an...”
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