Development Economics

Select which of the following options could be identified as "infrastructure" in development economics:

• .Water management

  .Dams

• . Wifi connection cables

  . Highways

• Airports

• All

Usually, goods that are natural monopolies are provided by governments (social planner) instead of private firms, because:

• Governments can veto the entrance of private firms by amending the law around business operating natural monopolies

• Private firms would compete on price, and therefore induce final prices to be too high for the final consumers to afford

• Private firms would not be able to bear the high fix costs typical of these markets

• Private firms would compete on quantities, bringing the optimal production quantity to be too low to satisfy all consumers.

In Asher and Novosad (2019) all villages above the cut-off thresholds (of 1,000 and 500 inhabitants) received a paved road at the latest by 2007.

• True

• Faldse

Asher and Novosad (2019)'s results are:

• a. In line with what has been found in similar research

• b. Completely different with what has been found in similar research

• Not comparable with other research as there is no similar papers to confront the results with

In Lee et al. (2019) households' surveys responses about accepting credits to connect to the grid are consistent with households' behaviours once the subsidies are actually offered.

• False

• True

In Lee et al. (2019) the authors do not take into account negative environmental externalities of electricity grid connection since Kenya has a relatively sustainable electricity management.

• True

• False

When studying the reasons for which small firms don't grow bigger, it is important to focus on a representative sample of small firms in order to ensure external validity.

• True

• False

In McKenzie (2017) the treatment and control groups are:

• Balanced alongside baseline characteristics for the group of new firms, but unbalanced for the group of existing firms

• Balanced alongside baseline characteristics for the group of existing firms, but unbalanced for the group of new firms

• Balanced alongside baseline characteristics for the group of new firms and for the group of existing firms

• Not balanced alongside baseline characteristics neither for the group of new firms nor for the group of existing firms

McKenzie (2017) both males and females could participate to the YouWIN! Business Plan Competition.

• True

• False

Take up rates of the treatments offered in De Mel et al. (2013) are very low.

• True

• False