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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 … role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development … 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 … that the program empowered women in various dimensions, including higher labor force participation and employment, higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976981
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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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Menstruation and Education in Nepal
Oster, Emily F. - 2010
products) to adolescent girls in rural Nepal. Girls in the study were randomly allocated a menstrual cup for use during their …
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Determinants of Technology Adoption : Private Value and Peer Effects in Menstrual Cup Take-Up
Oster, Emily F. - 2010
menstrual cups in Nepal. Using individual randomization, we estimate causal effects of peer exposure on adoption; using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757660
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Sanitation, Disease Externalities, and Anemia : Evidence from Nepal
Coffey, Diane - 2016
differential improvement in sanitation across regions of Nepal between 2006 and 2011. Within regions over time, cohorts of children …
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Population Policy : Abortion and Modern Contraception are Substitutes
Miller, Grant - 2016
instances, abortion services). In this paper, we study Nepal's 2004 legalization of abortion provision and subsequent expansion … individual-level data representative of fertile-age Nepalese women, we find robust evidence of substitution between modern …
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