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Follow the Money: Methods for Identifying Consumption and Investment Responses to a Liquidity Shock

Karlan, Dean S.; Osman, Adam; Zinman, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Identifying the impacts of liquidity shocks on spending decisions is difficult methodologically but important for theory, practice, and policy. Using seven different methods on microenterprise loan applicants, we find striking results. Borrowers report uses of loan proceeds strategically, and...

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Government Cash Transfers, Household Consumption, And Poverty Alleviation - The Case Of Russia

Richter, Kaspar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

takes into account endogenous reactions and consumption smoothing of households. We use the methodology to study the impact …

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The Success of Job Applications: A New Approach to Programme Evaluation

Falk, Armin; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

In this Paper, we suggest a novel approach to programme evaluation that allows identification of the causal effect of a training programme on the likelihood of being invited to a job interview under weak assumptions. The idea is to measure the programme-effects by pre- and post-treatment data...

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What is Middle Class about the Middle Classes Around the World?

Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education … daily consumption per capita is between $2 and $4 or between $6 and $10. The data shed lights on differences and … have fewer, healthier, and better educated children. While there are clear differences in consumption patterns between the …

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Dams

Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The construction of large dams is one of the most costly and controversial forms of public infrastructure investment in developing countries, but little is known about their impact. This paper studies the productivity and distributional effects of large dams in India. To account for endogenous...

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Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

Devoto, Florencia; Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the demand for household water connections in urban Morocco, and the effect of such connections on household welfare. In the northern city of Tangiers, among homeowners without a private connection to the city’s water grid, a random subset was offered a simplified procedure to...

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Repayment incentives and the distribution of gains from group lending

Baland, Jean-Marie; Somanathan, Rohini; Wahhaj, Zaki - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Group loans with joint liability have been a distinguishing feature of many microfinance programs. While such lending has benefitted millions of borrowers, major lending institutions have acknowledged their limited impact among the very poor and have recently favored individual contracts. This...

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Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

A seven-year randomized evaluation suggests education subsidies reduce adolescent girls’ dropout, pregnancy, and marriage but not sexually transmitted infection (STI). The government’s HIV curriculum, which stresses abstinence until marriage, does not reduce pregnancy or STI. Both programs...

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A Theory of Employment Guarantees: Contestability, Credibility and Distributional Concerns

Basu, Arnab K; Chau, Nancy H; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper develops a theory of employment guarantees when labor markets are imperfect and when the credibility of government policy announcements could be in doubt. The basic feature of an EGS is that any individual who satisfies a set of specified criteria is guaranteed public employment at a...

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Welfare Transfers and Intra-Household Trickle Down: A Model with Evidence from the US Food Stamp Program

Breunig, Robert; Dasgupta, Indraneel - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2003

We examine the case for maintaining welfare and income redistribution programs even when their adverse general equilibrium effects reduce total earnings of poor households. Using a Cournot model of intra-household decision-making, we show that even if welfare cutbacks generate large increases in...

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