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more than longer time series or special `controlled experiments.' It suggests an historical definition of the economy … structure of the economy. This essay reviews American macroeconomic history to illustrate its potential uses and draw out …
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This chapter develops a toolkit of neoclassical macroeconomic models, and applies these models to the U.S. economy from … of the relatively stable postwar U.S. economy, and also for the Great Depression and World War II. The models presented …
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Kenya, we show that households exhibit non-transitive preferences consistent with behavioral features such as loss aversion …
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We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a non-profit organization were randomly assigned a teammate, a supervisor, and a list of individuals to canvass. This created random variation within teams in the degree of...
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using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
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Violent conflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption. This paper studies how firms react to electoral violence using the case of Kenyan flower exporters during the 2008 post-election violence as an example. The violence induced a...
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line with economic theory favoring direct cash transfers, in a randomized experiment in Kenya 95% of urban recipients … prefer mobile money over electricity transfers of a similar monetary value. But Kenya is an outlier with high mobile money …
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a recent anti-poverty program in rural Kenya. Leveraging a large literature documenting a reliable relationship between …
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as collateral. Using a field experiment in Kenya, we show that borrowers instead strongly prefer loans collateralized …
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Kenya reduces all-cause under-5 mortality by 1.4 percentage points (95% CI: 0.3 pp, 2.5 pp), a 63% reduction relative to …
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