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Evaluating the Long-Run Impact of an Innovative Anti-Poverty Program : Evidence Using Household Panel Data

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2016

Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction – Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR – TUP) programme of BRAC, we investigate whether a one-off transfer of livestock assets improves well-being of the very poor women in Bangladesh....

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A Pigouvian Approach to Congestion in Matching Markets

He, Yinghua - 2019

Recruiting agents, or "programs" costly screen "applicants" in matching processes, and congestion in a market increases with the number of applicants to be screened. To combat this externality that applicants impose on programs, application costs can be used as a Pigouvian tax. Higher costs...

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Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?

Bandiera, Oriana - 2014

The world's poorest people lack capital and skills and toil for others in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term randomized control trial in Bangladesh this paper demonstrates that sizable transfers of assets and skills enable the poorest women to shift out of...

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Government Subsidies as a Risk-Sharing Policy Tool in Innovation Investment

Lu, Hao; Fuentes, Claudia de; Milla, Joniada; Ahmadi, Soheil - 2022

Current literature on the impact assessment of government innovation subsidies is mainly empirical driven and lacks an overarching theoretical model to explain the conditions under which government subsidies create positive additionalities on private R&D investment. In this paper, we present a...

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Limited Attention as the Scarce Resource in an Information-Rich Economy

Falkinger, Josef - 2021

This paper uses basic empirical facts from attention and perception psychology for a behavioral approach to equilibrium …-rich and whether scarcity of attention complements economic scarcity. A conventional economic equilibrium results if subjects … equilibrium diversity and level of attention-seeking activities are shown. At the normative level, welfare, efficiency and optimal …

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A Pure Theory of Population Distribution When Preferences are Ordinal

Stark, Holger; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2023

We model an environment in which individuals prefer to be in a space in which their rank is higher, be it a social space, a geographical space, a work environment, or any other comparison sphere which we refer to in this paper, and without loss of generality, as a region. When the individuals...

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The Accident Externality from Trucking

Muehlenbachs, Lucija A. - 2017

How much risk does a heavy truck impose on highway safety? To answer this question, we look at the rapid influx of trucks during the shale gas boom in Pennsylvania. Using quasi-experimental variation in truck traffic, we isolate the effect of adding a truck to the road. We find an additional...

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Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans

Atal, Juan Pablo - 2017

We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private longterm health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, the German legislature made the...

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Nudging Households to Take Up Health Insurance : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Burkina Faso

Bocoum, Fadima - 2017

In this paper we analyze the impact of a randomized information package on the understanding and uptake of community based health insurance. The information package consists of a detailed brochure which is distributed to households through home visits, a video also presented in people's homes...

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Thinking of Incentivizing Care? The Effect of Demand Subsidies on Informal Caregiving and Intergenerational Transfers

Costa-Font, Joan - 2018

We study the effect of demand-side subsidies to old age care recipients on both caregiving and intergenerational transfer decisions. We exploit two quasi-natural experiments referring to the inception of a universal and unconditional caregiving allowance in 2007 and its subsequent reduction in...

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