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Household survey data for research on well-being and behavior in Central Asia

Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir; Kroeger, Antje; … - 2012

This paper summarizes the micro - level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household - level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan -...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291424

Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia

Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir; Kroeger, Antje; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper summarizes the micro‐level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household‐level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan ‐...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271985

What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Zinman, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Numerous laboratory studies find that minor nuances of presentation and description change behavior in ways that are inconsistent with standard economic models. How much do these context effect matter in natural settings, when consumers make large, real decisions and have the opportunity to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778075

Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco

Angelucci, Manuela; Karlan, Dean S.; Zinman, Jonathan - 2013

Theory and evidence have raised concerns that microcredit does more harm than good, particularly when offered at high interest rates. We use a clustered randomized trial, and household surveys of eligible borrowers and their businesses, to estimate impacts from an expansion of group lending at...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319508

Dynamics and Drivers of Consumption and Multidimensional Poverty: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Brück, Tilman; Workneh Kebede, Sindu - 2013

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …

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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010

The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an extensive overview of existing practices and datasets used...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272662

Learning the Hard Way: The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement

Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; Miaari, Sami H. - 2014

We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435243

What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?

Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015

Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481649

The Effects of Conflict on Fertility: Evidence from the Genocide in Rwanda

Krähnert, Kati; Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; … - 2019

This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the hazard of having a child in the early post-genocide period and on the total number of post-genocide births up to 15 years following the conflict. We use individual-level data...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006028

Micro-Foundations of Fragility: Concepts, Measurement and Application

Baliki, Ghassan; Brück, Tilman; Ferguson, Neil T.N.; … - 2017

We explore the micro-foundations of fragility by discussing how to measure the exposure to fragility at the individual level. We focus on two notions that are not covered by existing aggregate, state-centric indicators of fragility. First, different individuals may experience fragility very...

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