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Targeting the Poor : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi - 2010

-to-hide assets is used to predict consumption, and community-based targeting, where villagers rank everyone on a scale from richest … to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … community-based targeting performs worse in identifying the poor than proxy-means tests, particularly near the threshold. This …

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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007

more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …

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Impacts of the Indonesian Economic Crisis : Price Changes and the Poor

Levinsohn, James - 1999

The recent financial crisis in Indonesia has resulted in dramatic price increases. Using very recent data, we …

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Human Capital and Shocks : Evidence on Education, Health and Nutrition

Frankenberg, Elizabeth - 2017

Human capital, including health and nutrition, has played a key role in the literature on poverty traps. Economic … and, thereby, push individuals into poverty. Three potential concerns in this literature are explored with empirical … evidence drawn from primary longitudinal survey data collected before and after two major shocks in Indonesia: the 1998 …

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The Net Benefits of Raising Bachelor's Degree Completion through the City University of New York ACE Program

Scott-Clayton, Judith E.; Garfinkel, Irwin; Ananat, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

In 2015, the City University of New York (CUNY) launched a new program-- Accelerate, Complete, and Engage (ACE)--aimed at improving college graduation rates. A randomized-control evaluation of the program found a nearly 12 percentage point increase in graduation five years after college entry....

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Adaptive Priority Mechanisms

Çelebi, Oğuzhan; Flynn, Joel P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

How should authorities that care about match quality and diversity allocate resources in the face of uncertainty? We introduce adaptive priority mechanisms (APM) that prioritize agents based on their scores and characteristics. We show that APM uniquely implement the ex post optimal allocation....

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Flexible Data Centers and the Grid : Lower Costs, Higher Emissions?

Knittel, Christopher R.; Senga, Juan Ramon L.; Wang, Shen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Data centers are among the fastest-growing electricity consumers, raising concerns about their impact on grid operations and decarbonization goals. Their temporal flexibility--the ability to shift workloads over time--offers a source of demand-side flexibility. We model power systems in three...

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How Damaging is Shouting "Fire" in a Crowded Theatre?

Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The canonical example of unprotected speech--falsely shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre--presumes such an act inevitably causes harmful panic. This paper challenges that presumption through a game-theoretic analysis of evacuation dynamics. I model a theatre as an N * M grid where rational...

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Do Environmental Markets Improve Allocative Efficiency? Evidence from U.S. Air Pollution

Meng, Kyle C.; Thivierge, Vincent - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The central appeal of environmental markets - efficient allocation of emission reductions - has been difficult to establish empirically. We develop a framework linking the theoretical change in allocative efficiency following a market-based policy to a quasi-experimental estimator. We apply this...

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Partial Language Acquisition : The Impact of Conformity

Brock, William A.; Chen, Bo; Durlauf, Steven N.; Weber, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper analyzes patterns of majority language acquisition in an economy consisting of a majority group and multiple minority groups. We consider contexts in which allows individuals choose among three options: full learning, partial learning, or no learning of the majority language. The key...

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