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Holy Cows or Cash Cows?
Attanasio, Orazio - 2014
two districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. The net profit generated ignoring labour costs, gives rise to a small positive rate …
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Household Matters : Revisiting the Returns to Capital Among Female Micro-Entrepreneurs
Bernhardt, Arielle - 2020
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Suicide and Property Rights in India
Anderson, Siwan - 2014
This paper studies the impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level … more suicides among both men and women in India. Using individual level data on domestic violence we find evidence that … increased property rights for women did increase the incidence of wife beating in India. A model of intra-household bargaining …
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Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism?
Anagol, Santosh - 2014
We examine the returns from owning cows and buffaloes in rural India. We estimate that when valuing labor at market …
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On Fintech and Financial Inclusion
Philippon, Thomas - 2020
The cost of financial intermediation has declined in recent years thanks to technological progress and increased competition. I document this fact and I analyze two features of new financial technologies that have stirred controversy: returns to scale, and the use of big data and machine...
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Distinguishing Constraints on Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP, TFP, and the Distribution of Income
Dabla-Norris, Era - 2015
A general equilibrium model featuring multiple realistic sources of financial frictions is developed to study how different constraints interact in equilibrium. We highlight, distinguish, and evaluate their differential impacts and rich interactions. The economic impact of financial inclusion...
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Can Mobile-Linked Bank Accounts Bolster Savings? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Sri Lanka
de Mel, Suresh - 2018
In developing economies, mobile-linked services have the potential to significantly reduce transaction costs and provide a truly new conduit that could be used to facilitate the flow of savings into banks. We test this premise by introducing a product that permits Sri Lankan households to...
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Banking the Unbanked? Evidence from Three Countries
Dupas, Pascaline - 2016
We experimentally test the impact of expanding access to basic bank accounts in Uganda, Malawi, and Chile. Over two years, 17 percent, 10 percent, and 3 percent of treatment individuals made five or more deposits, respectively. Average monthly deposits for them were at the 79th, 91st, and 96th...
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Learning in the Household
Conlon, John J.; Mani, Malavika; Rao, Gautam; Ridley, … - 2023
We study social learning between spouses using an experiment in Chennai, India. We vary whether individuals discover …
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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Burda, Michael C. - 2010
Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...
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