Trudy Owens
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3710422 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Trudy Owens |
| NOMBRES | Trudy |
| APELLIDO | Owens |
| FIRMA | OWENS T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8676-2919 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Benefits of enhanced access to education in Tanzania
Disability in Uganda
Using data from an orthotic intervention in Kampala, Uganda, this paper estimates the health and economic impacts of providing orthotic equipment to adults with lower limb disabilities. We examine changes to: (i) functional mobility and (ii) labour market outcomes, including type of employment and monthly earnings. One year after the intervention, the effects are noticeably gendered; men exhibit an improvement in their level of functional mobilit…
Do Better-Performing Nongovernmental Organizations Report More Accurately? Evidence from Financial Accounts in Uganda
We use Benford’s Law to investigate inaccurate financial reports of a representative sample of Ugandan nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). We find that 25% of the sample provided information that did not conform to the Benford distribution, suggesting potential misreporting. NGOs with better ratings from their beneficiaries are more likely to submit credible information. This contradicts the belief that upward accountability demands crowd out s…
Hedonic Adaptation to Treatment
We investigate whether changes in life circumstances lead to long-lasting changes in subjective well-being using a medical intervention that provided orthotic equipment to Ugandan adults with lower limb disabilities. The intervention had a positive effect on mobility and physical health, and treated patients reported a significant improvement in life satisfaction in the first few months after the treatment. However, the effect on subjective well-…
Collective management of an environmental threat when exposure is heterogeneous – A complementary methods approach
Are Victims Truly Worse Off in the Presence of Bystanders? Revisiting the Bystander Effect
Des études antérieures ont montré que la volonté d’aider une personne dans le besoin est plus faible en présence de « témoins » qui peuvent également offrir leur aide. Nous proposons un réexamen expérimental de cet « effet du témoin » à l’aide de jeux du dictateur modifiés. Les taux de transfert observés sont inférieurs en présence de témoins, ce qui confirme l’existence d’un effet du témoin. Cependant, les résultats montrent également que le bie…
Global Non-Profit Chains and the Challenges of Development Aid Contracting
This paper employs Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost approach to assess contracting. We find that donor contracting with global non-profit chains is conducive to NPO opportunism due to the asset specificity of the contracts, infrequent contracting, and the uncertainty of outcomes. These risks are further exacerbated by the weak enforcement mechanisms available in many developing countries. Williamson’s framework predicts that these risks would…
‘I Know My Rights, but Am I Better Off?’
Uganda is internationally recognised for both its legal and constitutional provisions for people with disabilities, and the presence of disabled persons’ organisations that provide informal advocacy and support. Using a unique dataset of 579 Ugandans with physical disabilities, we develop a conceptual framework on social capital to investigate the factors correlated with knowledge of formal institutions that target disability. In examining whethe…
Why Pay Ngo S to Involve the Community
We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to, i.e. subsidizing, NGOs to increase community participation. We show that the introduction of such a ‘participation subsidy’ may reduce beneficiary welfare. Thus, eliminating community participation from the set of conditions for funding an NGO may in fact benefit target communities. We show how our theoretical analysis may be operationalized by applying it to data from the NGO sect…
A Model of Nongovernmental Organization Regulation with an Application to Uganda
We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), where future grants are conditional on prior spending of some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to increase current project spending but imposes wasteful costs of compliance verification on all NGOs. Under a large class of parametric configurations, we find that regulation increases t…
Receive Grants or Perish? The Survival Prospects of Ugandan Non-Governmental Organisations
This study examines survival patterns in a large, representative panel of Ugandan non-governmental organisations (NGOs) between 2002 and 2008. It finds no evidence that more effective or more altruistic NGOs have a greater likelihood of survival. The main determinant of survival appears to be access to grants, and NGOs without grants struggle to survive. An investigation of the grant allocation mechanism suggests that effectiveness does not incre…
Promoting Transparency in the NGO Sector
The governance of non-governmental organizations in Uganda
External Support During the Transition Phase
Ex-Ante Actions and Ex-Post Public Responses to Drought Shocks
The Impact of Agricultural Extension on Farm Production in Resettlement Areas of Zimbabwe
This study contributes to the literature on the impact of farmer contact with agricultural extension services on farm productivity, drawing on a unique panel sample of households residing in three resettlement areas of rural Zimbabwe. It pays particular attention to the potential confounding effects of the biases identified by Birkhaeuser, Evenson, and Feder. Specifically, we exploit the longitudinal nature of our data to estimate the impact of e…
Revisiting forever gained
This study examines income dynamics for a panel of households resettled on former white‐owned farms in the aftermath of Zimbabwe's independence. There are four core findings: (i) over a 13‐year period (1983–96) there has been an impressive accumulation of assets and a dramatic increase of crop incomes; (ii) the rise of crop incomes is partly due to asset accumulation but largely to increased asset returns; (Hi) differences between households in i…
Export-oriented industrialization through primary processing
The governance of non-governmental organizations in Uganda
Promoting Transparency in the NGO Sector
Export-oriented industrialization through primary processing
The Impact of Agricultural Extension on Farm Production in Resettlement Areas of Zimbabwe
This study contributes to the literature on the impact of farmer contact with agricultural extension services on farm productivity, drawing on a unique panel sample of households residing in three resettlement areas of rural Zimbabwe. It pays particular attention to the potential confounding effects of the biases identified by Birkhaeuser, Evenson, and Feder. Specifically, we exploit the longitudinal nature of our data to estimate the impact of e…
Ex-Ante Actions and Ex-Post Public Responses to Drought Shocks
External Support During the Transition Phase
Global Non-Profit Chains and the Challenges of Development Aid Contracting
This paper employs Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost approach to assess contracting. We find that donor contracting with global non-profit chains is conducive to NPO opportunism due to the asset specificity of the contracts, infrequent contracting, and the uncertainty of outcomes. These risks are further exacerbated by the weak enforcement mechanisms available in many developing countries. Williamson’s framework predicts that these risks would…
Why Pay Ngo S to Involve the Community
We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to, i.e. subsidizing, NGOs to increase community participation. We show that the introduction of such a ‘participation subsidy’ may reduce beneficiary welfare. Thus, eliminating community participation from the set of conditions for funding an NGO may in fact benefit target communities. We show how our theoretical analysis may be operationalized by applying it to data from the NGO sect…
A Model of Nongovernmental Organization Regulation with an Application to Uganda
We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), where future grants are conditional on prior spending of some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to increase current project spending but imposes wasteful costs of compliance verification on all NGOs. Under a large class of parametric configurations, we find that regulation increases t…
Export-oriented industrialization through primary processing
Revisiting forever gained
This study examines income dynamics for a panel of households resettled on former white‐owned farms in the aftermath of Zimbabwe's independence. There are four core findings: (i) over a 13‐year period (1983–96) there has been an impressive accumulation of assets and a dramatic increase of crop incomes; (ii) the rise of crop incomes is partly due to asset accumulation but largely to increased asset returns; (Hi) differences between households in i…
Ex-Ante Actions and Ex-Post Public Responses to Drought Shocks
The Impact of Agricultural Extension on Farm Production in Resettlement Areas of Zimbabwe
This study contributes to the literature on the impact of farmer contact with agricultural extension services on farm productivity, drawing on a unique panel sample of households residing in three resettlement areas of rural Zimbabwe. It pays particular attention to the potential confounding effects of the biases identified by Birkhaeuser, Evenson, and Feder. Specifically, we exploit the longitudinal nature of our data to estimate the impact of e…
External Support During the Transition Phase
The governance of non-governmental organizations in Uganda
Promoting Transparency in the NGO Sector
Receive Grants or Perish? The Survival Prospects of Ugandan Non-Governmental Organisations
This study examines survival patterns in a large, representative panel of Ugandan non-governmental organisations (NGOs) between 2002 and 2008. It finds no evidence that more effective or more altruistic NGOs have a greater likelihood of survival. The main determinant of survival appears to be access to grants, and NGOs without grants struggle to survive. An investigation of the grant allocation mechanism suggests that effectiveness does not incre…
‘I Know My Rights, but Am I Better Off?’
Uganda is internationally recognised for both its legal and constitutional provisions for people with disabilities, and the presence of disabled persons’ organisations that provide informal advocacy and support. Using a unique dataset of 579 Ugandans with physical disabilities, we develop a conceptual framework on social capital to investigate the factors correlated with knowledge of formal institutions that target disability. In examining whethe…
Why Pay Ngo S to Involve the Community
We examine the case for donors providing financial incentives to, i.e. subsidizing, NGOs to increase community participation. We show that the introduction of such a ‘participation subsidy’ may reduce beneficiary welfare. Thus, eliminating community participation from the set of conditions for funding an NGO may in fact benefit target communities. We show how our theoretical analysis may be operationalized by applying it to data from the NGO sect…
A Model of Nongovernmental Organization Regulation with an Application to Uganda
We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), where future grants are conditional on prior spending of some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to increase current project spending but imposes wasteful costs of compliance verification on all NGOs. Under a large class of parametric configurations, we find that regulation increases t…
Global Non-Profit Chains and the Challenges of Development Aid Contracting
This paper employs Oliver Williamson’s transaction cost approach to assess contracting. We find that donor contracting with global non-profit chains is conducive to NPO opportunism due to the asset specificity of the contracts, infrequent contracting, and the uncertainty of outcomes. These risks are further exacerbated by the weak enforcement mechanisms available in many developing countries. Williamson’s framework predicts that these risks would…
Are Victims Truly Worse Off in the Presence of Bystanders? Revisiting the Bystander Effect
Des études antérieures ont montré que la volonté d’aider une personne dans le besoin est plus faible en présence de « témoins » qui peuvent également offrir leur aide. Nous proposons un réexamen expérimental de cet « effet du témoin » à l’aide de jeux du dictateur modifiés. Les taux de transfert observés sont inférieurs en présence de témoins, ce qui confirme l’existence d’un effet du témoin. Cependant, les résultats montrent également que le bie…
Hedonic Adaptation to Treatment
We investigate whether changes in life circumstances lead to long-lasting changes in subjective well-being using a medical intervention that provided orthotic equipment to Ugandan adults with lower limb disabilities. The intervention had a positive effect on mobility and physical health, and treated patients reported a significant improvement in life satisfaction in the first few months after the treatment. However, the effect on subjective well-…
Collective management of an environmental threat when exposure is heterogeneous – A complementary methods approach
Disability in Uganda
Using data from an orthotic intervention in Kampala, Uganda, this paper estimates the health and economic impacts of providing orthotic equipment to adults with lower limb disabilities. We examine changes to: (i) functional mobility and (ii) labour market outcomes, including type of employment and monthly earnings. One year after the intervention, the effects are noticeably gendered; men exhibit an improvement in their level of functional mobilit…
Do Better-Performing Nongovernmental Organizations Report More Accurately? Evidence from Financial Accounts in Uganda
We use Benford’s Law to investigate inaccurate financial reports of a representative sample of Ugandan nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). We find that 25% of the sample provided information that did not conform to the Benford distribution, suggesting potential misreporting. NGOs with better ratings from their beneficiaries are more likely to submit credible information. This contradicts the belief that upward accountability demands crowd out s…
Benefits of enhanced access to education in Tanzania
Economics (16 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Economic growth (8 obras) · Business (7 obras) · Public economics (7 obras) · Demographic economics (6 obras) · Finance (6 obras) · International Development and Aid (5 obras) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 obras) · Agriculture (4 obras)