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We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public-school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with multiple public and private schools and clearly defined catchment boundaries. The program was randomized at the village-level, allowing us to estimate its causal...
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average treatment effects on ten of thirteen outcomes: monthly household total and food consumption, monthly income, labor … consumption and income are greater for UCTs targeted to women. Fifth, programs employing light-touch framing related to child …
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The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was an extremely destructive event in Aceh, Indonesia, killing over 160,000 people and destroying infrastructure, homes, and livelihoods over miles of coastline. In its immediate aftermath, affected populations faced a daunting array of challenges. At the population...
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particularly vulnerable to forced labor as workers experience excessive work hours, required work on rest days, and unpaid wages …
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-homothetic consumption, and heterogeneous risk and time preferences. The method is composed of three steps. The first one allows for … protected from aggregate shocks than non-food consumption, after accounting for non-homotheticity. Village-level consumption … between the variation in measured consumption expenditures and cash-in-hand at the aggregate village level. Contrary to …
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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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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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occupations can "spill over" through consumption into others. We show theoretically that such spillovers occur when an occupation …
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of consumption insurance against shocks to male and female wages, as estimated empirically by Blundell, Pistaferri and … consumption, compared to the empirical estimates of 32% and 19%. Most of the consumption insurance against permanent male wage …
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With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico entered a bilateral free trade agreement which not only lowered its own tariffs on imports but also lowered tariffs on its exports to the U.S. We find that women's relative wage increased, particularly during the...
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