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Bertrand, Marianne - 1998

This paper empirically examines the role of social networks in welfare participation. Social theorists from across the political spectrum have argued that network effects have given rise to a culture of poverty. Empirical work, however, has found it difficult to distinguish the effect of...

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Would Financial Incentives for Leaving Welfare Lead Some People to Stay on Welfare Longer? An Experimental Evaluation of 'Entry Effects' in the SSP

Card, David - 1998

The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a large scale social experiment being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effects of an earnings supplement (or subsidy) for long-term welfare recipients who find a full-time job and leave income assistance. The supplement is available to single parents who...

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Empowering Mothers and Enhancing Early Childhood Investment : Effect on Adults Outcomes and Children Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

Lavy, Victor - 2016

Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via … that the program empowered women in various dimensions, including higher labor force participation and employment, higher …

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Can Self-Help Groups Really Be "Self-Help"?

Greaney, Brian - 2013

This paper examines a cost-reducing innovation to the delivery of "Self-Help Group" microfinance services. These groups typically rely on outside agents to found and administer the groups although funds are raised by the group members. The innovation is to have the agents earn their payment by...

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Under-Savers Anonymous : Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device

Kast, Felipe - 2012

We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (the number of...

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Women's Empowerment and Economic Development

Duflo, Esther - 2011

Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major … role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development … literature on both sides of the empowerment-development nexus, and argues that the inter-relationships are probably too weak to …

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Risk Sharing, Commitment Constraints and Self Help Groups

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Kochar, Anjini; Mahajan, Aprajit; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Evaluations of group savings and lending programs have largely focused on average impacts, rather than distributional impacts -- finding modest effects on long-term economic well-being. In this paper, we exploit the randomized roll-out of a self-help group lending program in rural Bihar, India...

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