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Improving the Targeting of Treatment : Evidence from College Remediation
Scott Clayton, Judith - 2012
At an annual cost of roughly $7 billion nationally, remedial coursework is one of the single largest interventions intended to improve outcomes for underprepared college students. But like a costly medical treatment with non-trivial side effects, the value of remediation overall depends upon...
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Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting : Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi
Basurto, Pia - 2017
Developing countries spend vast sums on subsidies. Beneficiaries are typically selected via either a proxy-means test (PMT) or through a decentralized identification process led by local leaders. A decentralized allocation may offer informational or accountability advantages, but may be prone to...
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Ordeal Mechanisms in Targeting : Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
Alatas, Vivi - 2015
Economic theory suggests that, when designing aid programs, ordeal mechanisms that impose differential costs for rich and poor can induce self-selection and hence improve targeting ("self-targeting"). We first re-examine this theory and show that ordeal mechanisms may actually have theoretically...
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Targeting Ultra-Poor Households in Honduras and Peru
Karlan, Dean S. - 2014
For policy purposes, it is important to understand the relative efficacy of various methods to target the poor. Recently, participatory methods have received particular attention. We examine the effectiveness of a hybrid two-step process that combines a participatory wealth ranking and a...
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Poverty Alleviation Strategies Under Informality : Evidence for Latin America
Caruso Bloeck, Martin; Galiani, Sebastian; … - 2021
Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in Latin America and the Caribbean is a primary obstacle to...
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The Evolution of Brand Preferences : Evidence from Consumer Migration
Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2010
We study the long-run evolution of brand preferences, using new data on consumers' life histories and purchases of consumer packaged goods. Variation in where consumers have lived in the past allows us to isolate the causal effect of past experiences on current purchases, holding constant...
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Customer Capital
Gourio, Francois - 2011
Firms spend substantial resources on marketing and selling. Interpreting this as evidence of frictions in product …
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Market Selection
Kogan, Leonid - 2010
The hypothesis that financial markets punish traders who make relatively inaccurate forecasts and eventually eliminate the effect of their beliefs on prices is of fundamental importance to the standard modeling paradigm in asset pricing. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for...
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Marketing Mutual Funds
Roussanov, Nikolai L. - 2018
Marketing and distribution expenses are responsible for about a third of the cost of active management in the mutual … fund industry. We develop and estimate a structural model of mutual fund marketing with learning about unobserved skill and … costly investor search. Our estimates suggest that marketing is nearly as important as performance and fees for determining …
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Market Penetration Costs and the New Consumers Margin in International Trade
Arkolakis, Costas - 2008
I develop a new theory of marketing costs and introduce it into a model of trade with product differentiation and firm …
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