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health and education, notably female, represent especially important links determining the strength of the relationship …
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Microfinance has been heralded as an effective way to address imperfections in credit markets. From a theoretical perspective, however, the success of microfinance contracts has puzzling elements. In particular, the group-based mechanisms often employed are vulnerable to free-riding and...
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We examine a randomized trial that allows separate identification of peer screening and enforcement of credit contracts. A South African microlender offered half its clients a bonus for referring a friend who repaid a loan. For the remaining clients, the bonus was conditional on loan approval....
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intercountry, three-tenths interhousehold within country inequality, and one-twentieth between gender differences in education. If … trends in household and gender inequality will require much improved data. …
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suggest the mechanisms by which it operates? Measures of wages for men and women are an unreliable basis for study of gender … welfare and gender gaps. For a sample of 70 countries observed at five year intervals from 1965 to 1980, tariff, quota, and … foreign exchange restrictions are found to be inversely associated with trade, and with the levels of education and health …
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differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …
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Information asymmetries are important in theory but difficult to identify in practice. We estimate the empirical importance of adverse selection and moral hazard in a consumer credit market using a new field experiment methodology. We randomized 58,000 direct mail offers issued by a major South...
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Human development, reflected in the status of people's levels of health and education, affects future growth and, in …
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height and weight-for-height, and to education, proxied by years of schooling completed, by level. Biases due to household … who still managed to obtain such an education. Studies evidence is then considered on the wage returns to variation in the …
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This paper seeks to examine the interdependence between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD). It is concerned with changes in per capita income and its two-way relationship with the basic societal objective of human development. Regressions across various Latin American countries are...
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