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Ode to the sea : Workplace Organizations and Norms of Cooperation

Gneezy, Uri - 2014

approach is to compare behavior in Brazilian fishermen societies that differ along one major dimension: the workplace … organization. In one society (located by the sea) fishermen are forced to work in groups whereas in the adjacent society (located … on a lake) fishing is inherently an individual activity. We report sharp evidence that the sea fishermen trust and …

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Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains : Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh

Emran, M. Shahe - 2020

wholesale prices, and effects of regulations of intermediaries. To test these we study the effects of a policy in Bangladesh …

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Finance and Children’s Academic Performance

Hu, Qing - 2020

What is the impact of regulatory reforms that enhance credit market efficiency on children's human capital? Using a parent-child panel dataset, we find that such reforms reduced children's academic performance in low-income families. Consistent with the view that financial development entices...

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Throwing the Baby out with the Drinking Water : Unintended Consequences of Arsenic Mitigation Efforts in Bangladesh

Buchmann, Nina - 2019

The 1994 discovery of arsenic in groundwater in Bangladesh prompted a massive public health campaign that led 20% of …

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Protecting Infants from Natural Disasters : The Case of Vitamin A Supplementation and a Tornado in Bangladesh

Gunnsteinsson, Snaebjorn - 2019

trial of at-birth vitamin A supplementation in Bangladesh. Tornado exposure in utero and in infancy decreased birth size and …

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Gender Wage Gaps and Worker Mobility : Evidence from the Garment Sector in Bangladesh

Menzel, Andreas - 2019

Data from 70 large export-oriented garment manufacturers in Bangladesh show that gender wage gaps are similar to those …

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Challenges of Change : An Experiment Promoting Women to Managerial Roles in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector

Macchiavello, Rocco - 2020

large garment factories in Bangladesh to test for inefficient representation of women among line supervisors. We identify …

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Learning to Navigate a New Financial Technology : Evidence from Payroll Accounts

Breza, Emily - 2020

introduced payroll accounts in a population of largely unbanked factory workers in Bangladesh. In the experiment, workers in a …

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Measuring Commuting and Economic Activity inside Cities with Cell Phone Records

Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Miyauchi, Yuhei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We show how to use commuting flows to infer the spatial distribution of income within a city. A simple workplace choice model predicts a gravity equation for commuting flows whose destination fixed effects correspond to wages. We implement this method with cell phone transaction data from Dhaka...

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Effects of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets

Akram, Agha Ali - 2017

Bangladesh, randomly varying saturation of offers across 133 villages. The transport subsidies increase beneficiaries' income due …

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