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drivers in Western Kenya, we provide evidence that many individuals treat their daily cash need as the day's target. We …
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We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...
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in Kenya. The workshop substantially raises aspirations, investment, and living standards. But the workshop+cash produces …
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a recent anti-poverty program in rural Kenya. Leveraging a large literature documenting a reliable relationship between …
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advantage of assistance? We explore this potential trade-off in the context of an NGO cash transfer program in Kenya, utilizing …
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We examine the preferences of low-income households in Kenya over the structure of unconditional cash transfers. We …
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We develop a micro-founded general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and three dimensions of financial inclusion: access (determined by a participation cost), depth (determined by a borrowing constraint), and intermediation efficiency (determined by a monitoring cost). We find that the...
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focus on Kenya, which has made significant strides in financial inclusion and development in recent years. We find a …
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urban Kenya, we show that utilization is increasing in firm size, market access, and economic activity. We present a model … cash transfers from a large-scale RCT in Kenya. The parsimonious model replicates much of the experimental evidence …
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We assess the impacts of a randomized school-based deworming intervention in Kenya on the mortality of recipients …
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