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Can microinsurance help prevent child labor? An impact evaluation from Pakistan

Landmann, Andreas; Frölich, Markus - 2013

-in-difference techniques we find lower incidence of child labor and lower child labor earnings caused by the innovation. Separating the two … parts of the innovation package, the effects of claim assistance are mostly insignificant, while increased insurance …

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Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan

Atkin, David; Chaudhry, Azam; Chaudry, Shamyla; … - 2015

This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new …

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The Impact of Fundamentalist Terrorism on School Enrolment: Evidence from North-Western Pakistan, 2004-09

Khan, Sarah; Seltzer, Andrew - 2016

Islamist groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere have sought to remove females from public life. This paper uses … data from Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement and the Global Terrorism Database to examine the impact of the …

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Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from a RCT in Pakistan

Fischer, Torben; Frölich, Markus; Landmann, Andreas - 2018

. A large randomized control trial from Pakistan allows us to separate adverse selection from moral hazard, to estimate …

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Formal and informal risk sharing in LDCs: theory and empirical evidence

Dubois, Pierre; Jullien, Bruno; Magnac, Thierry - 2007

estimate the model with the use of data from Pakistan villages. Empirical results are consistent with the economic arguments …

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Does cash for school influence young women's behavior in the longer term? Evidence from Pakistan

Alam, Andaleeb; Baez, Javier E.; Del Carpio, Ximena - 2011

The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was …

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Temporary and Permanent Migrant Selection: Theory and Evidence of Ability-Search Cost Dynamics

Chen, Joyce J; Kosec, Katrina; Mueller, Valerie - 2016

The migrant selection literature concentrates primarily on spatial patterns. This paper illustrates the implications of migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of the labor literature, a search model and a Roy model. Theory and empirics show temporary migrants...

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