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Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development
Foster, Andrew D.; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show using a theoretical framework that embeds a voting model in a general-equilibrium model of a rural economy with two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public resources by the landed elite to a democratic regime with...
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Experimentally Validating Welfare Evaluation of School Vouchers : Part I
Arcidiacono, Peter; Muralidharan, Karthik; Shim, Eun-young - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In this paper, we use a unique two-stage experiment that randomized access to school vouchers across both markets and …
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Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development : Experimental Evidence from India
Ganimian, Alejandro J.; Muralidharan, Karthik; Walters, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
cost-effective ways of doing so at scale. We use a large-scale randomized experiment to study the impact of adding an extra …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468293
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Does the Invisible Hand Efficiently Guide Entry and Exit? Evidence from a Vegetable Market Experiment in India
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
? Why don't competitive forces drive some vendors out of the market? We ran an experiment in Kolkata vegetable markets in …
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Material Incentives and Effort Choice : Evidence from an Online Experiment Across Countries
Davies, Elwyn; Fafchamps, Marcel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conduct an interactive online experiment framed as an employment contract between employer and worker. Subjects from … by conditional reciprocity or by intrinsic motivation. Subjects from India and Africa are more likely to follow intrinsic … motivation and they provide high effort more often. US subjects are more likely to follow self-interest and reach a less …
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