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We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health campaigns. Focusing on shared religious affiliation as a signal of proximity, we implemented a field experiment during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in two...
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This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether non-monetary prices better target health products to the poor than monetary prices. Monetary WTP is increasing in income and non-monetary WTP is weakly decreasing in income....
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We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns and the persistence of misinformation. We implement a field experiment among a representative sample of slum residents in two major Indian cities...
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Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps are particularly large. Interventions often target adolescent girls with the aim of empowering them to make choices that go against the status quo – to remain in school longer...
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and investment high. It finds that the low cost of capital has been quantitatively an important factor. Theory predicts … rebalance growth towards relying more on consumption and less on exports and investment, banking sector reforms and financial …
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This paper evaluates the effect of shocks in government investment on private investment and national income, focusing … heterogeneous effect of public investment as regards to infrastructure. Hence, I divide government investment into infrastructure vs … evaluate the dynamic change in private investment and income. The study finds evidence of the crowding-out effect of government …
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Germany is a large source country for investment and technology transfer into India and Indian investments in Germany … are also growing overtime. The two countries have investment complementarities and, therefore, there is scope to enhance … bilateral investments. In this context, this paper aims to highlight the barriers to investment flows between India and Germany …
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