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The Real Effects of Banking the Poor : Evidence from Brazil

Fonseca, Julia; Matray, Adrien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study how financial development affects economic development and wage inequality. We use a large expansion of government-owned banks into Brazilian cities with low bank branch coverage and combine it with data on the universe of employees from 2000-2014. We find that higher financial...

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Colonialism, Inequality, and Long-Run Paths of Development

Engerman, Stanley L. - 2005

Over the last few years, colonialism, especially as pursued by Europeans, has enjoyed a revival in interest among both scholars and the general public. Although a number of new accounts cast colonial empires in a more favorable light than has generally been customary, others contend that...

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Supporting Women's Livelihoods at Scale : Evidence from a Nationwide Multi-Faceted Program

Botea, Ioana; Brudevold-Newman, Andrew; Goldstein, Markus P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The success of multi-faceted "graduation" programs at reducing poverty raises three questions: can the impacts of these programs be maintained when implemented by governments at scale, will positive effects be offset by negative spillovers, and can bundled programs be streamlined without losing...

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Can the West Save Africa?

Easterly, William - 2008

In the new millennium, the Western aid effort towards Africa has surged due to writings by well-known economists, a celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey contrasts the predominant "transformational" approach...

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Smiles in Profiles : Improving Fairness and Efficiency Using Estimates of User Preferences in Online Marketplaces

Athey, Susan; Karlan, Dean; Palikot, Emil; Yuan, Yuan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

-based randomized survey experiment. In the experiment, we create profile images using Generative Adversarial Networks that differ in a …

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The Economics of Fair Trade

Dragusanu, Raluca E. - 2014

terms to producers and helping them to organize. In this survey, we provide a critical overview of the economic theory …

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Government Transfers and Political Support

Manacorda, Marco - 2009

We estimate the impact of a large anti-poverty cash transfer program, the Uruguayan PANES, on political support for the government that implemented it. Using the discontinuity in program assignment based on a pre-treatment eligibility score, we find that beneficiary households are 11 to 14...

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A Public Finance Approach to Assessing Poverty Alleviation

Yitzhaki, Shlomo - 2001

This paper points out the similarities and differences between cost-benefit analysis and tax reform. By restricting the analysis to the margin it is shown that both areas can be handled by the same method. In both areas, there is a need to define social distributional weights and to evaluate the...

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

Alatas, Vivi - 2013

Economic theory suggests that, when designing aid programs, ordeal mechanisms that impose differential costs for rich … and poor can induce self-selection and hence improve targeting ("self-targeting"). We first re-examine this theory and … issues empirically by conducting a 400-village field experiment within Indonesia's Conditional Cash Transfer program …

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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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