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  • 1
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    Measuring Agricultural Knowledge and Adoption (2014)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV048266491
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (35 p)
    Content: Understanding the trade-offs in improving the precision of agricultural measures through survey design is crucial. Yet, standard indicators used to determine program effectiveness may be flawed and at a differential rate for men and women. The authors use a household survey from Mozambique to estimate the measurement error from male and female self-reports of their adoption and knowledge of three practices: intercropping, mulching, and strip tillage. Despite clear differences in human and physical capital, there are no obvious differences in the knowledge, adoption, and error in self-reporting between men and women. Having received training unanimously lowers knowledge misreports and increases adoption misreports. Other determinants of reporting error differ by gender. Misreporting is positively associated with a greater number of plots for men. Recall decay on measures of knowledge appears prominent among men but not women. Findings from regression and cost-effectiveness analyses always favor the collection of objective measures of knowledge. Given the lowest rate of accuracy for adoption was around 80 percent, costlier objective adoption measures are recommended for a subsample in regions with heterogeneous farm sizes
    Additional Edition: Kondylis, Florence Measuring Agricultural Knowledge and Adoption
    Language: English
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  • 2
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    Measuring Agricultural Knowledge and Adoption (2014)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV049073797
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (35 Seiten)
    Edition: 2014
    Content: Understanding the trade-offs in improving the precision of agricultural measures through survey design is crucial. Yet, standard indicators used to determine program effectiveness may be flawed and at a differential rate for men and women. The authors use a household survey from Mozambique to estimate the measurement error from male and female self-reports of their adoption and knowledge of three practices: intercropping, mulching, and strip tillage. Despite clear differences in human and physical capital, there are no obvious differences in the knowledge, adoption, and error in self-reporting between men and women. Having received training unanimously lowers knowledge misreports and increases adoption misreports. Other determinants of reporting error differ by gender. Misreporting is positively associated with a greater number of plots for men. Recall decay on measures of knowledge appears prominent among men but not women. Findings from regression and cost-effectiveness analyses always favor the collection of objective measures of knowledge. Given the lowest rate of accuracy for adoption was around 80 percent, costlier objective adoption measures are recommended for a subsample in regions with heterogeneous farm sizes
    Additional Edition: Kondylis, Florence Measuring Agricultural Knowledge and Adoption
    Language: English
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    Seeing is Believing? : Evidence from an Extension Network Experiment (2014)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV048266433
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (60 p)
    Content: Extension services are a keystone of information diffusion in agriculture. This paper exploits a large randomized controlled trial to track diffusion of a new technique in the classic Training and Visit (T&V) extension model, relative to a more direct training model. In both control and treatment communities, contact farmers (CFs) serve as points-of-contacts between agents and other farmers. The intervention (Treatment) aims to address two pitfalls of the T&V model: i) infrequent extension agent visits, and ii) poor quality information. Treatment CFs receive a direct, centralized training. Control communities are exposed to the classic T&V model. Information diffusion was tracked through two nodes: from agents to CFs, and from CFs to others. Directly training CFs leads to large gains in information diffusion and adoption, and CFs learn by doing. Diffusion to others is limited: other males adopt the technique perceived as labor saving, with an effect size of 75 percent
    Additional Edition: Kondylis, Florence Seeing is Believing?
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7000
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    The Speed of Justice (2018)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV048273881
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (56 Seiten)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: Can changing the rules of the game affect government performance? This paper studies the impact of a simple procedural reform on the efficiency and quality of adjudication in Senegal. The reform gave judges the duty and powers to conclude pre-trial proceedings within a four-month deadline. The analysis combines a staggered rollout across the six civil and commercial chambers of the Court of Dakar and three years of high-frequency caseload data to construct an event study. The analysis finds a reduction in procedural formalism, as the length of the pre-trial stage decreases by 42.9 days (0.29 standard deviation) and the number of case-level pre-trial hearings is reduced, while judges are more likely to impose deadlines. The effect is similar for small and large cases, and fast and slow judges are equally likely to apply the reform. The evidence suggests that these efficiency gains have no adverse impact on quality, and the paper documents positive firm-level effects
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kondylis, Florence The Speed of Justice Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2018
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8372
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    Water when it counts : reducing scarcity through irrigation monitoring in central Mozambique (2018)
    Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, Development Research Group, Impact Evaluation Team
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    gbv_1016351607
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 54 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 8345
    Content: Management of common-pool resources in the absence of individual pricing can lead to suboptimal allocation. In the context of irrigation schemes, this can create water scarcity even when there is sufficient water to meet the total requirements. High-frequency data from three irrigation schemes in Mozambique reveal patterns consistent with inefficiency in allocations. A randomized control trial compares two feedback tools: i) general information, charting the water requirements for common crops, and ii) individualized information, comparing water requirements with each farmer's water use in the same season of the previous year. Both types of feedback tools lead to higher reported and observed sufficiency of water relative to recommendations, and nearly eliminate reports of conflicts over water. The experiment fails to detect an additional effect of individualized comparative feedback relative to a general information treatment
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Christian, Paul Water When It Counts: Reducing Scarcity through Irrigation Monitoring in Central Mozambique Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2018
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8345
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    Author information: Siegfried, Tobias 1970-
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    The speed of justice (2018)
    Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, Development Research Group, Impact Evaluation Team
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    gbv_1022179454
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 56 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 8372
    Content: Can changing the rules of the game affect government performance? This paper studies the impact of a simple procedural reform on the efficiency and quality of adjudication in Senegal. The reform gave judges the duty and powers to conclude pre-trial proceedings within a four-month deadline. The analysis combines a staggered rollout across the six civil and commercial chambers of the Court of Dakar and three years of high-frequency caseload data to construct an event study. The analysis finds a reduction in procedural formalism, as the length of the pre-trial stage decreases by 42.9 days (0.29 standard deviation) and the number of case-level pre-trial hearings is reduced, while judges are more likely to impose deadlines. The effect is similar for small and large cases, and fast and slow judges are equally likely to apply the reform. The evidence suggests that these efficiency gains have no adverse impact on quality, and the paper documents positive firm-level effects
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kondylis, Florence The Speed of Justice Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2018
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8372
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    Demand for safe spaces : avoiding harassment and stigma (2020)
    [Washington, DC, USA] : World Bank Group, Development Economics, Development Impact Evaluation Group
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    gbv_1724107682
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 78 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 9269
    Content: What are the costs to women of harassment on public transit? This study randomizes the price of a women-reserved "safe space" in Rio de Janeiro and crowdsource information on 22,000 rides. Women in the public space experience harassment once a week. A fifth of riders are willing to forgo 20 percent of the fare to ride in the "safe space". Randomly assigning riders to the "safe space" reduces physical harassment by 50 percent, implying a cost of
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kondylis, Florence Demand for Safe Spaces: Avoiding Harassment and Stigma Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2020
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9269
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    Learning from Self and Learning from Others : Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh (2023)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    gbv_1865986631
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (107 pages)
    Content: Can decentralizing demonstration accelerate learning about new technologies This paper randomizes access to a fixed demonstration kit for new flood-saline-resilient seeds across villages in Bangladesh, with demonstration either by a single farmer or spread across many farmers. In the short run, higher learning from self and others under decentralization increases technology adoption. In the long run, the impacts of any demonstration persist, but the additional impacts of decentralization vanish. A Bayesian model of learning the returns to a new technology suggests belief dispersion caused noisy adoption along the learning path, and farmers' expected gains from demonstration are four times higher under decentralization
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kondylis, Florence Learning from Self and Learning from Others: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2023
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-10545
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    Factor market failures and the adoption of irrigation in Rwanda (2019)
    [Washington, DC, USA] : World Bank Group, Development Economics, Development Impact Evaluation Group
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    gbv_1691194077
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 103 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 9092
    Content: This paper examines constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda. It leverages a plot-level spatial regression discontinuity design to produce 3 key results. First, irrigation enables dry season horticultural production, which boosts on-farm cash profits by 70 percent. Second, adoption is constrained: access to irrigation causes farmers to substitute labor and inputs away from their other plots. Eliminating this substitution would increase adoption by at least 21 percent. Third, this substitution is largest for smaller households and wealthier households. This result can be explained by labor market failures in a standard agricultural household model
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jones Maria Ruth Factor Market Failures And The Adoption Of Irrigation In Rwanda Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2019
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9092
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    Do They Do As They Say? : Stated versus Revealed Preferences and Take Up in an Incentives for Conservation Program (2016)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV048270895
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (1 Seiten)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: Use of conditional cash transfers has become widespread in development policy given their success in boosting health and education outcomes. Recently, conditional cash transfers are being used to promote pro-environmental behavior. While many of these Payments for Environment Services (PES) programs have been successful, it has been hypothesized that those with less favorable outcomes have been subject to low additionality, whereby landholders already conserving their land self-select into the program. Insights from the behavioral economics literature suggest that an external incentive, such as PES, has the potential to crowd in or crowd out individual behavior differentially across the initial distribution of intrinsic motivations (Frey, 1992). Thus, to increase the impact of PES, program administrators might gain from a better understanding of both the pre-existing motivations and existing baseline conservation behavior of potential participants. This paper contributes to the literature by disentangling and measuring intrinsic motivations, specifically: Pro-Environment, Pro-Social, Pro-Government, and Social Norms. Controlling for observable opportunity costs, we use these latent motivations to analyze behavioral determinants of take up for a conservation program in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The payments are an incentive to comply with the Brazil Forest Code. We find that Pro-Social and Pro-Environment landholders are both more likely to be conserving private land not under legal protection before the program is introduced, whereas only Pro-Social landholders are already conserving land under legal protection. With respect to enrollment in the PES program, we find Pro-Social landholders are less likely to enroll while Pro-Environment landholders are more likely to enroll. Thus we expect some level of additionality from the PES program. We discuss these findings in light of the theoretical framework on Self-Determination Theory (SDT)
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/25177
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