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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

Universal health coverage is a widely shared goal across lower-income countries. We conducted a large-scale, 4-year trial that randomized premiums and subsidies for India's first national, public hospital insurance program, RSBY. We find roughly 60% uptake even when consumers were charged...

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Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations

Feir, Donna; Foley, Kelly; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the impact of active labour market programs for institutionally distinct Indigenous populations in Canada using administrative data on the universe of participants in the Aboriginal Skills and Employment Training Strategy (ASETS). Within Indigenous population groups, we...

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Early Childhood Intervention for the Poor : Long Term Outcomes

Andrew, Alison; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Early childhood interventions aim to promote skill acquisition and poverty reduction. While their short-term success is well established, research on longer-term effectiveness is scarce, particularly in LDCs. We present results of a randomized scalable intervention in India, that affected...

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Cash Transfers for Child Development : Experimental Evidence from India

Weaver, Jeffrey; Sukhtankar, Sandip; Niehaus, Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in which randomly-selected mothers receive cash transfers for the first two years of their child's life, we examine the relationship between income and child development in the...

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Risk Sharing, Commitment Constraints and Self Help Groups

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Kochar, Anjini; Mahajan, Aprajit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Evaluations of group savings and lending programs have largely focused on average impacts, rather than distributional impacts -- finding modest effects on long-term economic well-being. In this paper, we exploit the randomized roll-out of a self-help group lending program in rural Bihar, India...

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Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency : Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Increasing Productivity

Neumark, David - 2009

I review evidence on alternative labor market policies that could potentially improve economic self-sufficiency via mandating higher wages, subsidizing employment, or increasing productivity. The evidence indicates that the minimum wage is an ineffective policy to promote economic...

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Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs

Lise, Jeremy - 2004

This paper makes three primary contributions. First, we demonstrate the usefulness of general equilibrium models as tools with which to draw policy implications for policies implemented in practice only as small-scale social experiments. Second, we illustrate the usefulness of social experiments...

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Workfare and Human Capital Investment : Evidence from India

Shah, Manisha - 2015

We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare …

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What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations

Card, David - 2015

We summarize the estimates from over 200 recent studies of active labor market programs. We classify the estimates by type of program and participant group, and distinguish between three different post-program time horizons. Using regression models for the estimated program effect (for studies...

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Inconsistent Policy Evaluation : A Case Study for a Large Workfare Program

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2015

Evaluations of workfare programs in poor rural economies have typically ignored two features that policy makers stress … methods to incorporate both features, and shows that doing so can switch the policy ranking in favor of welfare over workfare … suggested by past methods, despite a more "poor-poor" incidence. A basic-income guarantee would dominate net workfare earnings …

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