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Fighting Poverty One Family at a Time : Experimental Evidence from an Intervention with Holistic, Individualized, Wrap-Around Services

Evans, William N.; Kolka, Shawna; Sullivan, James X.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Families in poverty face numerous barriers to establishing stable economic footing. This paper examines the effect of a holistic, individualized wrap-around service intervention on outcomes for low-income individuals. The intervention includes a detailed assessment, an individualized service...

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The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions

Bazzi, Samuel - 2018

policy experiment in Indonesia to show how the effects of ethnic diversity on conflict depend on the political units within …

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Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin

Caldeira, Emilie - 2012

We study the effect of decentralization on the access to some poverty-related public services in Benin. Compiling panel … suggests that decentralization has a positive overall effect on access to basic services. However, this effect appears to be … services. Decentralization in Benin contributes positively to the reduction of poverty by improving the average access to …

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Targeting the Poor : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi - 2010

In developing countries, identifying the poor for redistribution or social insurance is challenging because the government lacks information about people's incomes. This paper reports the results of a field experiment conducted in 640 Indonesian villages that investigated two main approaches to...

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Ordeal Mechanisms In Targeting : Theory And Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi - 2013

issues empirically by conducting a 400-village field experiment within Indonesia's Conditional Cash Transfer program …

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Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi - 2013

Indonesia, using both a high-stakes field experiment that varied the extent of elite influence and non-experimental data on a …

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Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information : Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi - 2012

We use unique data from 600 Indonesian communities on what individuals know about the poverty status of others to study how network structure influences information aggregation. We develop a model of semi-Bayesian learning on networks, which we structurally estimate using within-village data....

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Time Preferences and Food Choice

Brownback, Andy; Imas, Alex; Kuhn, Michael A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Healthy food choices are a canonical example used to illustrate the importance of time preferences in behavioral economics. However, the literature lacks a direct demonstration that they are well-predicted by incentivized time preference measures. We offer direct evidence by combining a novel,...

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Does nothing stop a bullet like a job?$bthe effects of income on crime

Ludwig, Jens; Schnepel, Kevin T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Do jobs and income-transfer programs affect crime? The answer depends on why one is asking the question, which shapes what one means by "crime." Many studies focus on understanding why overall crime rates vary across people, places, and time; since 80% of all crimes are property offenses, that's...

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The Effect of Emergency Financial Assistance on Employment and Earnings

Hungerman, Daniel M.; Phillips, David C.; Rinz, Kevin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine the labor supply effects of short-term income transfers for families experiencing a housing crisis. We link callers of an emergency assistance homelessness prevention hotline to their federal tax records and measure their employment & earnings in years surrounding their calls. Our...

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