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Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments

Dupas, Pascaline; Robinson, Jonathan - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 4, pp. 1138-71

Using data from a field experiment in Kenya, we document that providing individuals with simple informal savings … providing a safe place to keep money was sufficient to increase health savings by 66 percent. Adding an earmarking feature was …. Group-based savings and credit schemes had very large effects. …

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Giffen Behavior and Subsistence Consumption

Jensen, Robert T.; Miller, Nolan H. - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 4, pp. 1553-77

This paper provides the first real-world evidence of Giffen behavior, i.e., upward sloping demand. Subsidizing the prices of dietary staples for extremely poor households in two provinces of China, we find strong evidence of Giffen behavior for rice in Hunan, and weaker evidence for wheat in...

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Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Cohen, Jessica; Dupas, Pascaline; Schaner, Simone - In: American Economic Review 105 (2015) 2, pp. 609-45

Both under- and over-treatment of communicable diseases are public bads. But efforts to decrease one run the risk of increasing the other. Using rich experimental data on household treatment- seeking behavior in Kenya, we study the implications of this trade-off for subsidizing life-saving...

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Risk and Time Preferences: Linking Experimental and Household Survey Data from Vietnam

Tanaka, Tomomi; Camerer, Colin F.; Nguyen, Quang - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 557-71

We conducted experiments in Vietnamese villages to determine the predictors of risk and time preferences. In villages with higher mean income, people are less loss-averse and more patient. Household income is correlated with patience but not with risk. We expand measurements of risk and time...

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Price Indexes, Inequality, and the Measurement of World Poverty

Deaton, Angus - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 1, pp. 5-34

I discuss the measurement of world poverty and inequality, with particular attention to the role of purchasing power parity (PPP) price indexes from the International Comparison Project. Global inequality increased with the latest revision of the ICP, and this reduced the global poverty line...

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Who Gets the Job Referral? Evidence from a Social Networks Experiment

Beaman, Lori; Magruder, Jeremy - In: American Economic Review 102 (2012) 7, pp. 3574-93

We use recruitment into a laboratory experiment in Kolkata, India to analyze how social networks select individuals for jobs. The experiment allows subjects to refer actual network members for casual jobs as experimental subjects under exogenously varied incentive contracts. We provide evidence...

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Violence and Risk Preference: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

Callen, Michael; Isaqzadeh, Mohammad; Long, James D.; … - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 1, pp. 123-48

We investigate the relationship between violence and economic risk preferences in Afghanistan combining: (i) a two-part experimental procedure identifying risk preferences, violations of Expected Utility, and specific preferences for certainty; (ii) controlled recollection of fear based on...

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Trade, Tastes, and Nutrition in India

Atkin, David - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 5, pp. 1629-63

This paper explores the causes and consequences of regional taste differences. I introduce habit formation into a standard general equilibrium model. Household tastes evolve over time to favor foods consumed as a child. Thus, locally abundant foods are preferred in every region, as they were...

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The Life-Cycle Profile of Time Spent on Job Search

Aguiar, Mark; Hurst, Erik; Karabarbounis, Loukas - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 111-16

Using time use survey data we document a hump-shaped profile of job search time in the United States across the life-cycle. The middle-aged unemployed spend roughly three times as much time in job search as the youngest group of unemployed. The hump-shaped profile of job search time is...

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The Spending and Debt Response to Minimum Wage Hikes

Aaronson, Daniel; Agarwal, Sumit; French, Eric - In: American Economic Review 102 (2012) 7, pp. 3111-39

Immediately following a minimum wage hike, household income rises on average by about $250 per quarter and spending by roughly $700 per quarter for households with minimum wage workers. Most of the spending response is caused by a small number of households who purchase vehicles. Furthermore, we...

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