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Can women's self-help groups contribute to sustainable development? : evidence of capability changes from Northern India

Anand, Paul; Saxena, Swati; Gonzales Martinez, Rolando; … - 2020

This paper offers an evaluation of a supported women's self help program with over 1.5 million participants in one of the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct capability measurement literature can be adapted for...

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Micro-entrepreneurship and subjective well-being : evidence from rural Bangladesh

Bhuiyan, Muhammad Faress; Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2018

three villages of Bangladesh in 2013. In spite of having no direct effects, we find that microcredit borrowing has an …Microcredit has long been hailed as a powerful tool to promote livelihoods and reduce poverty through entrepreneurship … analyzing the effect of microcredit-enabled entrepreneurship on overall life satisfaction - a key manifestation of subjective …

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Multidimensional targeting and evaluation : a general framework with an application to a poverty program in Bangladesh

Robano, Virginia; Smith, Stephen C. - 2013

-poverty program in Bangladesh, and find that our measures of multidimensional poverty have fallen significantly for participants. This …

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The impact of micro-credit on employment : evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan

Kahn, Azhar; Rahman, Twyeafur; Wright, Robert E. - 2016

. For Pakistan, there is no evidence that micro-credit effects employment. However, for Bangladesh, there is robust evidence …This paper examines the impact of micro-credit on employment. Household-level data was collected, following a quasi …-experimental design, in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Three borrower groups are compared: Current borrowers; Pipeline borrowers and Non …

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Contract structure, time preference, and technology adoption

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Smits, Joeri; Sun, Qigang - 2020

Do constraints to technology adoption vary by behavioral traits? We randomize 150 villages in Bangladesh into being … offered standard microcredit, loans with a grace period, the choice between those two contracts, and control. No discernible …

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Domestic violence and income : quasi-experimental evidence from the earned income tax credit

Cesur, Resul; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Roff, Jennifer; … - 2022

Using Difference-in-Differences models and event-study analysis, we estimate the impact of an exogenous increase in income on the incidence and intensity of intimate partner violence (IPV). Using National Crime Victimization Survey data from 1992 to 2000, we exploit time and family-size...

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"Face the bullet, spare the rod?" : evidence from the aftermath of the shining path insurgency

Morales, Alvaro; Prakarsh Singh - 2016

We investigate whether violence occurring outside the confines of a home can alter intra-household violence inter-generationally. This paper is the first to explore whether exposure to violence from an armed conflict affects the later use of physical punishment as a child discipline method. Our...

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Domestic abuse and child health

Rawlings, Samantha; Siddique, Zahra - 2014

We examine the effects of different kinds of domestic abuse (physical violence, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and physical violence while the victim is pregnant) on health outcomes of children born to victims. We use data on approximately 0.6 million children born between 1975 and 2013 across...

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Social distancing, stimulus payments, and domestic violence : evidence from the US during COVID-19

Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar; Prina, Silvia - 2022

We examine the effects of social distancing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on the reporting of domestic violence to the police in the United States. Using daily domestic violence calls from 31 police departments for the January-September 2020 (compared to 2019), we find that the early...

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Dynamic impacts of lockdown on domestic violence: evidence from multiple policy shifts in Chile

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Brito, Emilia; Clarke, Damian; … - 2021

We leverage staggered implementation of lockdown across Chile's 346 municipalities, identifying dynamic impacts on domestic violence (DV). Using administrative data, we find lockdown imposition increases indicators of DV-related distress, while decreasing DV reports to the police. We identify...

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