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Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from India

Bloom, Nicholas - 2018

Beginning in 2008, we ran a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving firms (Bloom et al. 2013). In 2017 we revisited the plants and found three main results. First, while about half of the management practices adopted in the original experimental...

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Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization : Saint-Germain-d'Anxure 1730-1895

Blanc, Guillaume - 2019

Using a unique, comprehensive household-level dataset for a single French village from 1730 to 1895, we study the … village. We find that the fall in fertility preceded the rise in education by several decades. Demographic change is plausibly … forces. All these changes occurred in the absence of industrialization in and around the village. We conclude that …

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Insurance and Propagation in Village Networks

Kinnan, Cynthia - 2020

In village economies, insurance networks are key to smoothing shocks, while production networks can propagate them. The … suggests that the total magnitude of indirect effects may be larger than the direct effects and that social (village …

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Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Breza, Emily; Chandrasekhar, Arun G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Formal financial institutions can have far-reaching and long-lasting impacts on informal lending and information networks. We first study 75 villages in Karnataka, 43 of which were exposed to microfinance after we first collected detailed network data. Networks shrink more in exposed villages....

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Heterogeneity and Risk Sharing in Village Economies

Chiappori, Pierre-André - 2011

village, full insurance cannot be rejected, suggesting that relatives provide something close to a complete … would benefit from eliminating village-level risk, less-risk-averse households who are paid to absorb that risk would be …

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Keepin' 'em Down on the Farm : Migration and Strategic Investment in Children's Schooling

Jensen, Robert - 2017

In rural areas of most developing countries, intergenerational coresidence is both widespread and an important determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on the family farm or provide care and assistance around...

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Making Democracy Work : Culture, Social Capital and Elections in China

Miquel, Gerard Padró i - 2015

electoral reforms in Chinese villages. We use the presence of village temples to proxy for culture, or more specifically, for …

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Financing Smallholder Agriculture : An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India

Maitra, Pushkar - 2014

Recent evaluations of traditional microfinance loans have found no significant impacts on borrower incomes or productive activities. We examine whether this can be remedied by (a) modifying loan features to facilitate financing of working capital needs of farmers, and (b) delegating selection of...

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Gossip : Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2014

central (not just those with many friends). Moreover, these nominees are more central in the network than traditional village …

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Tractable and Consistent Random Graph Models

Chandrasekhar, Arun G. - 2014

We define a general class of network formation models, Statistical Exponential Random Graph Models (SERGMs), that nest standard exponential random graph models (ERGMs) as a special case. We provide the first general results on when these models' (including ERGMs) parameters estimated from the...

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