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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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Crowding in Private Quality : The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education
Andrabi, Tahir; Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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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Unconditional Cash Transfers : A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Randomized Evaluations in Low and Middle Income Countries
Crosta, Tommaso; Karlan, Dean; Ong, Finley; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
average treatment effects on ten of thirteen outcomes: monthly household total and food consumption, monthly income, labor …-based poverty traps within the observed range of transfers and with this study-level analytical method. Fourth, effects on … consumption and income are greater for UCTs targeted to women. Fifth, programs employing light-touch framing related to child …
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Extreme Events, Educational Aspirations and Long-term Outcomes
Iwo, Rene A.; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Sumantri, Cecep; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
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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Understanding the Impact of Low-Cost Loans on Forced Labor
Sharma, Anisha; Shah, Manisha; Łuczywek, Beata - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Approximately 27.5 million individuals fell victim to forced labor in 2021. The Indian construction industry is particularly vulnerable to forced labor as workers experience excessive work hours, required work on rest days, and unpaid wages. Micro-contractors (MCs), who oversee worker...
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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...
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Digital Distractions with Peer Influence : The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes
Barwick, Panle Jia - 2024
Concerns over the excessive use of mobile phones, especially among youths and young adults, are growing. We present, to our knowledge, the first estimates of both behavioral spillover and contextual peer effects, as well as the first comprehensive evidence of how own and peers' mobile app usage...
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Multiple Price Lists for Willingness to Pay Elicitation
Jack, B. Kelsey; McDermott, Kathryn; Sautmann, Anja - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Multiple price lists are a convenient tool to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) in surveys and experiments, but choice … about subjects' preferences. We provide templates to create a multiple price list survey instrument in SurveyCTO and analyze …
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Public Education and Intergenerational Housing Wealth Effects
Gilraine, Michael; Graham, James; Zheng, Angela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While rising house prices benefit existing homeowners, we document a new channel through which price shocks have … intergenerational wealth effects. Using panel data from school zones within a large U.S. school district, we find that higher local … quantify this housing wealth channel using an overlapping generations model with neighborhood choice, spatial equilibrium, and …
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The Impact of Intergenerational Transfers on the Distribution of Wealth : An International Comparison
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2024
light on the impact of intergenerational transfers on household wealth disparities and on possible reasons for the … substantial differences in household wealth disparities among the 4 countries. Almost all of the evidence I present suggests that … intergenerational transfers have a disequalizing impact on household wealth disparities and promote the transmission of household wealth …
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