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    <title>EconStor Collection: Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, 2010 (Hannover)</title>
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      <title>Local Financial Development and Household Welfare: Microevidence from Thai Households</title>
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      <description>Title: Local Financial Development and Household Welfare: Microevidence from Thai Households
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Gloede, Oliver; Rungruxsirivorn, Ornsiri
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: We provide new micro evidence on the discussion about the relationship between financial development and welfare. Relying on the concept of local financial development our analysis focuses on three dimensions of household welfare: vulnerability to poverty, investment, and consumption smoothing. Even though we cannot find a significant effect on vulnerability, we provide evidence that financial development is correlated with higher investment and better possibilities to smooth consumption. The extent of both effects is also economically significant. Our results hold for alternative specifications and variations in the measurement of financial development.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Building Functional Adult Literacy and Numeracy with Mobile Phones: Can you Text me Now?</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/40241</link>
      <description>Title: Building Functional Adult Literacy and Numeracy with Mobile Phones: Can you Text me Now?
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Aker, Jenny C.; Ksoll, Christopher; Lybbert, Travis J.
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: We report the short-term results from a randomized evaluation of a mobile phone literacy program (ABC) in Niger, in which adult literacy students learned how to use mobile phones as part of a literacy class. Students in mobile phone literacy villages showed substantial gains in numeracy exam scores. There is also evidence of heterogeneity in program effects across regions, suggesting the impact is context dependent. These results were stronger in one region, for women and for participants younger than 45. There was also evidence of learning dynamics: six months after the end of the first year of classes, students in ABC villages retained what they had learned better than the non-ABC students.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Canola Oil Industry and EU Trade Integration: A Gravity Model Approach</title>
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      <description>Title: The Canola Oil Industry and EU Trade Integration: A Gravity Model Approach
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Röttgers, Dirk; Faße, Anja; Grote, Ulrike
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Recently biodiesel has become more prominent in countries of the European Union (EU). The rapidly increasing domestic production and consumption of biodiesel is accompanied by increasing trade flows. It is questionable if these trade flows are caused mainly by EU regulations concerning trade or concerning the bioenergy sector. A sector-specific analysis taking industry patterns into consideration is necessary to evaluate the impact of these two policy areas on trade flows. A common way to analyze trade flows is the so-called gravity model, which is employed here. Because of zero-inflated trade data, the model is expanded using the Heckman approach and augmented by spatial weights and Anderson &amp; Van Wincoop's controls for multilateral resistance. The obtained results suggest that while the mandatory biofuel blending quota has a positive impact, investment subsidies cannot be shown to have any effect and trade integration might even have a trade inhibiting effect among EU members. The surprising latter result can be explained by an exhausted domestic European market for raw and intermediate materials for biodiesel and proves stable even when controlling for sector specific variables.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FDI liberalization, firm heterogeneity and foreign ownership: German firm decisions in reforming India</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/40017</link>
      <description>Title: FDI liberalization, firm heterogeneity and foreign ownership: German firm decisions in reforming India
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Görg, Holger 136676103; Mühlen, Henning; Nunnenkamp, Peter 133128296
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: The paper investigates the role of firm-level productivity and industry-level R&amp;D for MNEs' choice of undertaking FDI, and the share of ownership in foreign affiliates. Two firm-specific datasets on German MNEs with varying equity stakes in Indian affiliates are used to account for the two-step decision process. The paper also analyses how German firm decisions were affected by the liberalisation of FDI regulations in India. Results show remarkable differences between the selection and the ownership share equation, and also between the pre-reform and post-reform periods. The evidence clearly reveals the tradeoffs involved in selective FDI approvals and foreign ownership restrictions.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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