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On the Importance of African Traditional Religion for Economic Behavior
Butinda, Lewis Dunia; Lameke, Aimable Amani; Nunn, Nathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Within the field of economics, despite being widespread, African traditional religions tend to be perceived as unimportant and ignored when studying economic decision-making. This study tests whether this presumption is correct. Using daily data on business decisions and performance of beer...
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Crowding in Private Quality : The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education
Andrabi, Tahir; Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public-school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with multiple public and private schools and clearly defined catchment boundaries. The program was randomized at the village-level, allowing us to estimate its causal...
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Extreme Events, Educational Aspirations and Long-term Outcomes
Iwo, Rene A.; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Sumantri, Cecep; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was an extremely destructive event in Aceh, Indonesia, killing over 160,000 people and destroying infrastructure, homes, and livelihoods over miles of coastline. In its immediate aftermath, affected populations faced a daunting array of challenges. At the population...
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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
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Multiple Price Lists for Willingness to Pay Elicitation
Jack, B. Kelsey; McDermott, Kathryn; Sautmann, Anja - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Multiple price lists are a convenient tool to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) in surveys and experiments, but choice … about subjects' preferences. We provide templates to create a multiple price list survey instrument in SurveyCTO and analyze …
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Public Education and Intergenerational Housing Wealth Effects
Gilraine, Michael; Graham, James; Zheng, Angela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While rising house prices benefit existing homeowners, we document a new channel through which price shocks have … intergenerational wealth effects. Using panel data from school zones within a large U.S. school district, we find that higher local … quantify this housing wealth channel using an overlapping generations model with neighborhood choice, spatial equilibrium, and …
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Banking on Transparency for the Poor : Experimental Evidence from India
Field, Erica Marie; Rigol, Natalia; Moore, Charity Troyer; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
increased women's knowledge of account balances and trust in their local banking agent. Indicative of improved consumption …
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Aspiring to a Better Future : Can a Simple Psychological Intervention Reduce Poverty?
Orkin, Kate; Garlick, Robert; Mahmud, Mahreen; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How do aspirations influence investment decisions for people living in poverty? Does this change as peoples economic … similar effects to cash alone, potentially because cash raises aspirations. Thus, helping people living in poverty set higher …
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The Psychology of Poverty : Where Do We Stand?
Haushofer, Johannes; Salicath, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In recent years, the psychological causes and consequences of poverty have received renewed attention from scientists …-dollar terms. We conclude by discussing whether a psychological poverty trap is plausible …
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Long Social Distancing
Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
More than ten percent of Americans with recent work experience say they will continue social distancing after the COVID-19 pandemic ends, and another 45 percent will do so in limited ways. We uncover this Long Social Distancing phenomenon in our monthly Survey of Working Arrangements and...
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