-making, the experiment markets stoves to husbands or wives in turn at randomly varying prices. We find that women - who bear … suggest that if women cannot make independent choices about household resource use, public policy may not be able to exploit …

agricultural institutions and outcomes. We focus on south Vietnam and quantify the effect of higher measured distortions in the …

Land market incompleteness is argued to have pervasive effects in Sub-Saharan Africa, including on agricultural … efficiency, equity, and structural transformation. Yet experimental evidence on land market participation is virtually non …-existent. We randomly allocate subsidies for agricultural rentals in Kenya and study who selects into land markets, what renters do …

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

multiple, independent checks on the validity of regime assignment. Using retrospective marriage data from rural Bangladesh, we …

women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to … garment sector jobs to women living further away from factories, to years before the factories arrive close to some villages …

who begin in extreme poverty. The setting is rural Bangladesh and the asset is cows. The data supports the poverty traps …

experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …

We study a fundamental institution in many societies: the structure of property rights over land. Across societies …, communal land rights have been more common than private land rights. We test the hypothesis that longer fallow requirements … - the time needed to leave land uncultivated to restore fertility - led to a higher prevalence of communal property rights …