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Using Individual-Level Randomized Treatment to Learn about Market Structure? (Английский)
Interference across competing firms in RCTs can be informative about market structure. An experiment that subsidizes a random sub-set of traders who buy cocoa from farmers in Sierra Leone illustrates this...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 185247 Дата подготовки документа: 16 октября 2023 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Casaburi,Lorenzo,Reed,Tristan
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Together we will : experimental evidence on female voting behavior in Pakistan (Английский)
In many emerging democracies women are less likely to vote than men and, when they do vote, are likely to follow the wishes of male household and clan heads. We assess the impact of a voter awareness campaign...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 126639 Дата подготовки документа: 1 января 2018 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Gine,Xavier,Mansuri,Ghazala
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Customary norms, inheritance, and human capital : evidence from a reform of the matrilineal system in Ghana (Английский)
The authors study the role of traditional norms in land allocation and human capital investment. The authors exploit a policy experiment in Ghana that increased the land that children from matrilineal...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 122570 Дата подготовки документа: 1 октября 2017 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: La Ferrara,Eliana,Milazzo,Annamaria
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Should aid reward performance? : evidence from a field experiment on health and education in Indonesia (Английский)
The authors report an experiment in 3,000 villages that tested whether incentives improve aid efficacy. Villages received block grants for maternal and child health and education that incorporated relative...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 100190 Дата подготовки документа: 1 октября 2014 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Olken,Benjamin,Onishi,Junko,Wong,Susan
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Should aid reward performance? : evidence from a field experiment on health and education in Indonesia (Английский)
The authors report an experiment in 3,000 villages that tested whether incentives improve aid efficacy. Villages received block grants for maternal and child health and education that incorporated relative...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 92933 Дата подготовки документа: 1 октября 2014 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Olken,Benjamin,Onishi,Junko,Wong,Susan
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Distortions in the international migrant labor market : evidence from Filipino migration and wage responses to destination country economic shocks (Английский)
The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to gross domestic product (GDP) shocks in destination countries...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 92929 Дата подготовки документа: 1 апреля 2014 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Mckenzie,David J.,Theoharides, Caroline,Yang,Dean
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Wage rigidity and disinflation in emerging countries (Английский)
This paper examines the consequences of rapid disinflation for downward wage rigidities in two emerging countries, Brazil and Uruguay. Although wage rigidities are altered by disinflation, in neither of...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 92928 Дата подготовки документа: 1 января 2014 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Messina Granovsky,Julian S.,Sanz De Galdeano,Anna Maria
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The effect of absenteeism and clinic protocol on health outcomes : the case of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Kenya (Английский)
The authors show that pregnant women whose first clinic visit coincides with the nurse’s attendance are 58 percentage points more likely to test for HIV and 46 percent more likely to deliver in a hospital...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 92925 Дата подготовки документа: 1 апреля 2013 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Goldstein,Markus P.,Habyarimana,James Paul,Pop-Eleches,Cristian,Thirumurthy,Harsha,Zivin,Joshua S. Graff
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The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka (Английский)
A field experiment in Sri Lanka provides informal firms incentives to formalize. Information about the registration process and reimbursement of direct costs does not increase registration. Payments equivalent...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 92926 Дата подготовки документа: 1 апреля 2013 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Mckenzie,David J.,De Mel,Suresh,Woodruff,Christopher Marshall
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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores (Английский)
Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for household responses to changes in school inputs. Evidence from India and Zambia shows that student...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 92924 Дата подготовки документа: 1 апреля 2013 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Das,Jishnu,Dercon,Stefan,Habyarimana,James Paul,Krishnan,Pramila,Muralidharan,Karthik,Sundararaman,Venkatesh
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Barriers to household risk management : evidence from India (Английский)
Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of nonsystematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 92923 Дата подготовки документа: 1 января 2013 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Cole,Shawn Allen,Gine,Xavier,Tobacman,Jeremy,Topalova,Petia B.,Townsend, Robert,Vickery,James
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Enforcement of labor regulation and informality (Английский)
Enforcement of labor regulations in the formal sector may drive workers to informality because they increase the costs of formal labor. But better compliance with mandated benefits makes it attractive...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 92922 Дата подготовки документа: 1 июля 2012 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel
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Cash transfers, behavioral changes, and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment (Английский)
Cash transfer programs have become extremely popular in the developing world. A large literature analyzes their effects on schooling, health and nutrition, but relatively little is known about possible...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 92920 Дата подготовки документа: 1 апреля 2012 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Macours,Karen,Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Vakis,Renos