“...We investigate the role of deeply rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine...”

“...Short-run subsidies for health products are common in poor countries. How do they affect long-run adoption? A common fear among development practitioners is...”

“...This paper defines and analyzes a new monotonicity condition for the identification of counterfactuals and treatment effects in unordered discrete choice...”

“...The farm household model has played a central role in improving the understanding of small-scale agricultural households and non-farm enterprises. Under the...”

“...Much of the extensive empirical literature on insurance markets has focused on whether adverse selection can be detected. Once detected, however, there has...”

“...We study the design of provider incentives in the post-acute care setting—a highstakes but under-studied segment of the healthcare system. We focus on...”

“...A statistical model of dynamic intrafamily investment behavior incorporating endowment heterogeneity is estimated to evaluate alternative estimation procedures...”

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“...We provide easy to verify sufficient conditions for the consistency and asymptotic normality of a class of semiparametric optimization estimators where the...”