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Under-Savers Anonymous : Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Kast, Felipe - 2012
We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (the number of...
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Can Self-Help Groups Really Be "Self-Help"?
Greaney, Brian - 2014
This paper examines a cost-reducing innovation to the delivery of "Self-Help Group" microfinance services. These groups typically rely on outside agents to found and administer the groups although funds are raised by the group members. The innovation is to have the agents earn their payment by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064122
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Women's Empowerment and Economic Development
Duflo, Esther - 2012
Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major … literature on both sides of the empowerment-development nexus, and argues that the inter-relationships are probably too weak to …
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Empowering Mothers and Enhancing Early Childhood Investment : Effect on Adults Outcomes and Children Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
Lavy, Victor - 2016
Empowering women and enhancing children's early development are two important goals that are often pursued via independent policy initiatives in developing countries. In this paper we study a unique approach that pursues both goals at the same time: empowering mothers through tools that also...
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Would Financial Incentives for Leaving Welfare Lead Some People to Stay on Welfare Longer? An Experimental Evaluation of 'Entry Effects' in the Ssp
Card, David; Robins, Philip K.; Lin, Winston - 2021
The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a large scale social experiment being conducted in Canada to evaluate the effects of an earnings supplement (or subsidy) for long-term welfare recipients who find a full-time job and leave income assistance. The supplement is available to single parents who...
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Network Effects and Welfare Cultures
Bertrand, Marianne; Luttmer, Erzo F. P.; Mullainathan, … - 2021
This paper empirically examines the role of social networks in welfare participation. Social theorists from across the political spectrum have argued that network effects have given rise to a culture of poverty. Empirical work, however, has found it difficult to distinguish the effect of...
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Exposure to Food Advertising on Television : Associations with Children's Fast Food and Soft Drink Consumption and Obesity
Andreyeva, Tatiana - 2014
There is insufficient research on the direct effects of food advertising on children's diet and diet-related health … Survey-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) and the Nielsen Company data on spot television advertising of cereals, fast food … food advertising on television and children's food consumption and body weight. Our results suggest that soft drink and …
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Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?
Jensen, Robert T. - 2014
Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …
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Trade Policy and Redistribution When Preferences are Non-Homothetic
Do, Quy-Toan - 2017
-sum transfers are not necessarily superior to distortionary trade policy. We develop this argument in the context of food export …
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WIC Participation and Relative Quality of Household Food Purchases : Evidence from Foodaps
Fang, Di - 2018
quality of household food purchases using the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) and propensity … score matching. A healthy purchasing index (HPI) is used to measure nutritional quality of household food purchases. WIC … foods explain the improvement in quality of food purchases, not self-selection of more nutrition-conscious households into …
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