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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models

Fairlie, Robert W. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2003

The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique...

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Group versus Individual Liability: Long Term Evidence from Philippine Microcredit Lending Groups

Giné, Xavier; Karlan, Dean - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2009

Group liability in microcredit purports to improve repayment rates through peer screening, monitoring, and enforcement. However, it may create excessive pressure, and discourage reliable clients from borrowing. Two randomized trials tested the overall effect, as well as specific mechanisms. The...

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Trust: A Concept Too Many

Guinnane, Timothy W. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2005

Research on "trust" now forms a prominent part of the research agenda in history and the social sciences. Although this research has generated useful insights, the idea of trust has been used so widely and loosely that it risks creating more confusion than clarity. This essay argues that to the...

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Group versus Individual Liability: A Field Experiment in the Philippines

Gine, Xavier; Karlan, Dean - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2006

Group liability is often portrayed as the key innovation that led to the explosion of the microcredit movement, which started with the Grameen Bank in the 1970s and continues on today with hundreds of institutions around the world. Group lending claims to improve repayment rates and lower...

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Social Connections and Group Banking

Karlan, Dean S. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2005

Lending to the poor is expensive due to high screening, monitoring, and enforcement costs. Group lending advocates believe lenders overcome this by harnessing social connections. Using data from FINCA-Peru, I exploit a quasi-random group formation process to find evidence of peers successfully...

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You Can Pick Your Friends, But You Need to Watch Them: Loan Screening and Enforcement in a Referrals Field Experiment

Bryan, Gharad; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012

We examine a randomized trial that allows separate identification of peer screening and enforcement of credit contracts. A South African microlender offered half its clients a bonus for referring a friend who repaid a loan. For the remaining clients, the bonus was conditional on loan approval....

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To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda

Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean; McConnell, Margaret; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2014

a comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health … experiment in Northern Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either …

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Health and Schooling Investments in Africa

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999

estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult …

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Economic Growth and Human Development

Ramirez, Alejandro; Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997

health and education, notably female, represent especially important links determining the strength of the relationship …

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Wage Gains Associated with Height as a Form of Health Human Capital

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2002

Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …

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