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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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Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?

Kaur, Supreet; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Oh, Suanna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

workers in India. We randomize the timing of income receipt, so that on a given day some workers have more cash-on-hand than …

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Affirmative Action in Education : Evidence From Engineering College Admissions in India

Bertrand, Marianne - 2008

in India for "lower-caste" groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the marginal upper …

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Ferreting Out Tunneling : An Application to Indian Business Groups

Bertrand, Marianne - 2000

In many countries, controlling shareholders are accused of tunneling, transferring resources from companies where they have few cash flow rights to ones where they have more cash flow rights. Quantifying the extent of such tunneling, however, has proven difficult because of its illicit nature....

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Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines

Karlan, Dean - 2018

A debt trap occurs when someone takes on a high-interest rate loan and is barely able to pay back the interest, and thus perpetually finds themselves in debt (often by re-financing). Studying such practices is important for understanding financial decision-making of households in dire...

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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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Automating Automaticity : How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias

Agan, Amanda Y.; Davenport, Diag; Ludwig, Jens; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

by carrying out algorithmic audits of Facebook in its two biggest markets, the US and India, focusing on two algorithms …

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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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