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Women's Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment
Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically-varying containment policies to estimate the …
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Effect of Health Insurance in India : A Randomized Controlled Trial
Malani, Anup; Holtzman, Phoebe; Imai, Kosuke; Kinnan, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the fraction of households offered insurance varied across...
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Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments
Corno, Lucia - 2017
particularly child marriage, in Sub-Saharan Africa and in India, where substantial monetary or in-kind transfers occur with … marriage: bride price across Sub-Saharan Africa and dowry in India. In a simple equilibrium model of the marriage market in … two regions: in Sub-Saharan Africa, they increase the annual hazard into child marriage by 3%, while in India droughts …
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Evaluating and Pricing Health Insurance in Lower-income Countries : A Field Experiment in India
Malani, Anup; Kinnan, Cynthia; Conti, Gabriella; Imai, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find …
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Traditional Institutions in Modern Times : Dowries as Pensions When Sons Migrate
Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Voena, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines whether an important cultural institution in India - dowry - can enable male migration by …
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