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Microequity and Mutuality : Experimental Evidence on Credit with Performance-Contingent Repayment
Cordaro, Francesco; Fafchamps, Marcel; Mayer, Colin P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We conduct the first field experiment of a performance-contingent microfinance contract. A large food multinational … large positive impacts from the contractual innovations. These findings demonstrate the economic appeal of microfinance …
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Going the Extra Mile : Farm Subsidies and Spatial Convergence in Agricultural Input Adoption
Kumar, Naresh; Kapoor, Rolly; Aggarwal, Shilpa; Jeong, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Many countries subsidize agricultural inputs but require farmers to travel to retailers to access inputs, just as for normal purchases. What effect do travel costs have on subsidy take-up and input usage, particularly for remote farmers? We analyze Malawi's Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP), and...
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Cash Transfers and Social Preferences of Children
Haushofer, Johannes; Larreboure, Magdalena; Lowes, Sara; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the effects of an unconditional cash transfer program on social preferences of children. The program allocated $1,076 to randomly selected households in rural Kenya. We measure the social preferences of 4,022 children from 1,687 households with survey questions and incentivized...
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On the Importance of African Traditional Religion for Economic Behavior
Butinda, Lewis Dunia; Lameke, Aimable Amani; Nunn, Nathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Within the field of economics, despite being widespread, African traditional religions tend to be perceived as unimportant and ignored when studying economic decision-making. This study tests whether this presumption is correct. Using daily data on business decisions and performance of beer...
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The Long-Run Effects of Psychotherapy on Depression, Beliefs, and Economic Outcomes
Bhat, Bhargav; De Quidt, Jonathan; Haushofer, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We revisit two clinical trials that randomized depressed adults in India (n=775) to a brief course of psychotherapy or a control condition. Four to five years later, the treatment group was 11 percentage points less likely to be depressed than the control group. The more effective intervention...
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Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access
Desmet, Klaus; Gomes, Joseph Flavian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper shows that ethnically remote locations do not reap the full peace dividend from increased market access. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the US-initiated Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and using high-resolution data on ethnic composition and violent conflict for...
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The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers to Agricultural Households
Aggarwal, Shilpa; Aker, Jenny C.; Jeong, Dahyeon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
While cash transfers will tautologically increase contemporaneous consumption, it is unclear whether these gains will persist, especially in rural agricultural settings with limited productive investment opportunities. Using bi-monthly survey data from recipients of a large, unconditional cash...
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The Sensitivity of Experimental Impact Estimates : Evidence from the National JTPA Study
Heckman, James J. - 1997
The recent experimental evaluation of the U.S. Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program found negative effects of training on the earnings of disadvantaged male youth and no effect on the earnings of disadvantaged female youth. These findings provided justification for Congress to cut the...
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Learning to Navigate a New Financial Technology : Evidence from Payroll Accounts
Breza, Emily - 2020
introduced payroll accounts in a population of largely unbanked factory workers in Bangladesh. In the experiment, workers in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482467
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Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit : Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis
Breza, Emily - 2018
In October 2010, the state government of Andhra Pradesh, India issued an emergency ordinance, bringing microfinance … loans in the affected state. We use this massive dislocation in the microfinance market to identify the causal impacts of a … sector (agriculture), suggesting that one important impact of the microfinance contraction was transmitted through its effect …
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