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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
the extent to which scientific impact evaluation methods can provide evidence to improve the effectiveness and efficiency … drawing on real-life examples from the small but growing academic literature, we demonstrate how impact evaluation methods can … limited resources is a key challenge for humanitarian assistance and impact evaluation is one way of achieving this. …
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Do Natural Disasters Stimulate Individual Saving? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a Highly Developed Country
Berlemann, Michael; Steinhardt, Max; Tutt, Jascha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
While various empirical studies have found negative growth-effects of natural disasters, little is yet known about the microeconomic channels through which disasters might affect short- and especially long-term growth. This paper contributes to filling this gap in the literature by studying how...
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Giving and Sorting among Friends: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Among residents of an informal housing area in Cairo, we examine how dictator giving varies by the social distance between subjects – friend versus stranger – and by the anonymity of the dictator. While giving to strangers is high under anonymity, we find – consistent with Leider et al....
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The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
Hirshleifer, Sarojini; McKenzie, David; Almeida, Rita K.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use a randomized experiment to evaluate a large-scale active labor market policy: Turkey's vocational training programs for the unemployed. A detailed follow-up survey of a large sample with low attrition enables precise estimation of treatment impacts and their heterogeneity. The average...
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A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms
Andrade, Gustavo Henrique de; Bruhn, Miriam; McKenzie, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Many governments have spent much of the past decade trying to extend a helping hand to informal businesses by making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. Much less effort has been devoted to raising the costs of remaining informal, through increasing enforcement of existing regulations....
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The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information about the registration process and reimbursement for direct registration costs had no impact on...
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Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo
Binzel, Christine; Fehr, Dietmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
While strong social ties help individuals cope with missing institutions, trade is essentially limited to those who are part of the social network. We examine what makes the decision to trust a stranger different from the decision to trust a member of a given social network (a friend), by...
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Insurance versus Savings for the Poor: Why One Should Offer Either Both or None
Landmann, Andreas; Vollan, Björn; Frölich, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes data from a novel field experiment designed to test the impact of two different insurance products and a secret saving device on solidarity in risk-sharing groups among rural villagers in the Philippines. Risk is simulated by a lottery. Risk-sharing is possible in solidarity...
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Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Morduch, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source,...
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Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War
Bauer, Michal; Fiala, Nathan; Levely, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army forcibly recruited tens of thousands of youth during a recent brutal conflict. We use a set of...
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