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Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Anand, Paul - 2020
's empowerment when structural causes of disempowerment, external to the household, are present and significant …
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Regional Migration, Insurance and Economic Shocks : Evidence from Nicaragua
Molina Millán, Teresa - 2015
To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the bilateral transfer of funds. Using rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012019
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The City as a Self-Help Book : The Psychology of Urban Promises
Cardoso, Rodrigo - 2017
Despite the many negative aspects of life in cities, urban promises of economic prosperity, freedom and happiness have fuelled the imagination of generations of migrants, who have flocked to cities in search of a better life, invariably exaggerating the opportunities and neglected the potential...
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Measuring Women's Empowerment in Rwanda
Musonera, Abdou - 2016
This study examines the determinants of women's empowerment in Rwanda using data obtained from DHS 2010. A regression … analysis is used to investigate the association between women's empowerment and its covariates. The study also uses a … spouses. Variables of sources of empowerment such as education and media exposure were found to have a net positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984863
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Traditional Norms, Access to Divorce and Women's Empowerment
Bargain, Olivier; Loper, Jordan; Ziparo, Roberta - 2022
those in stable marriages, experience a relative increase in empowerment. We test these predictions using double …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081947
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Under-Savers Anonymous : Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Kast, Felipe - 2012
While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer groups are an alternative commitment device that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110869
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Keep it Simple : A Field Experiment on Information Sharing Among Strangers
Batista, Catia; Fafchamps, Marcel; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2022
SMS information campaigns are increasingly used for policy. We conduct a field experiment to study information sharing through mobile phone messages. Subjects are rural households in Mozambique who have access to mobile money. In the baseline intervention, subjects receive an SMS containing...
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Migrant Remittances and Information Flows : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Batista, Catia - 2013
Do information flows matter for remittance behavior? We design and implement a randomized control trial to quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad on the extent and value of remittance flows. In the experiment, a random sample of 1,500 migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071283
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Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows
Kugler, Maurice - 2013
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077290
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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy : Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2014
Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political preferences in Moldova during the following decade...
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