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Scraping by : Income and Program Participation after the Loss of Extended Unemployment Benefits
Rothstein, Jesse - 2017
poverty rates rise substantially. Self-reported disability also rises following UI exhaustion. These patterns do not vary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953974
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Research and Impacts of Digital Financial Services
Karlan, Dean S. - 2018
A growing body of rigorous research shows that financial services innovations can have important positive impacts on wellbeing, but also that many do not. We first describe the latest evidence on what works in financial inclusion. Second, we summarize research on key financial market failures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935529
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Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways : Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico
Lybbert, Travis J. - 2016
experimental study based on a hope intervention in Oaxaca, Mexico among 601 indigenous women with access to microfinance loans. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982040
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Taking Stock of the Evidence on Micro-Financial Interventions
Buera, Francisco J. - 2016
We review the empirical evidence on microfinance and asset grants to the ultra poor or microentrepreneurs, and assess … aggregate poverty traps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982524
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Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Breza, Emily; Duflo, Esther; … - 2021
Can microcredit help unlock a poverty trap for some people by putting their businesses on a different trajectory? Could …, India, we find that “gung ho entrepreneurs” (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance … facilitate escape from a poverty trap …
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Healing the Poor : The Influence of Patient Socioeconomic Status on Physician Supply Responses
Chen, Alice - 2016
A longstanding literature explores how altruism affects the way physicians respond to incentives and provide care. We analyze how patient socioeconomic status mediates these responses. We show theoretically that patient socioeconomic status systematically influences the way physicians respond to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999992
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Poverty Programs, Initiation of Prenatal Care and the Rate of Low Birthweight Births
Frank, Richard G. - 2015
This paper specifies and estimates an econometric model of low and very low birthweight rates for counties in the U.S. for the years 1975-1984. We focus on the impact of several specific public policy actions on use of prenatal care and the subsequent effect on birthweight outcomes. Our results...
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Sharing R&D Risk in Healthcare Via Fda Hedges
Jørring, Adam - 2017
The high cost of capital for firms conducting medical research and development (R&D) has been partly attributed to the government risk facing investors in medical innovation. This risk slows down medical innovation because investors must be compensated for it. We analyze new and simple financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957388
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Were the Nigerian Banking Reforms of 2005 a Success ... And for the Poor?
Cook, Lisa D. - 2011
The Nigerian banking system was in crisis for much of the 1990's and early 2000's. The reforms of 2005 were ambitious in simultaneously attempting to address safety, soundness, and accessibility. This paper uses published and new survey data through 2008 to investigate whether bank consolidation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128269
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Trade, Poverty and the Lagging Regions of South Asia
Krishna, Pravin - 2010
country. Examining data from India, we find that while trade liberalization is associated with reduced poverty, this effect is … to be less perfect in lagging states than in leading ones, especially in the rural sector. This suggests that poverty … of their populations in lagging regions experience greater reduction in poverty rates following trade liberalization. Our …
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