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Targeting ultra-poor households in Honduras and Peru

Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram - 2013

Progress out of Poverty Index and a housing index), in Honduras and Peru. The methods we examine perform similarly to one …

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The efficacy of parochial politics : caste, commitment, and competence in Indian local governments

Munshi, Kaivan; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - 2008

Parochial politics is typically associated with poor leadership and low levels of public good provision. This paper explores the possibility that community involvement in politics need not necessarily worsen governance and, indeed, can be efficiency-enhancing when the context is appropriate....

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You can pick your friends, but you need to watch them : loan screening and enforcement in a referrals field experiment

Bryan, Gharad; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2012

We examine a randomized trial that allows separate identification of peer screening and enforcement of credit contracts. A South African microlender offered half its clients a bonus for referring a friend who repaid a loan. For the remaining clients, the bonus was conditional on loan approval....

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Social policy & US Poverty 1960 - 1999 : an economic history

Jaynes, Gerald David - 2011

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Savings by and for the poor : a research review and agenda

Karlan, Dean; Ratan, Aishwarya Lakshmi; Zinman, Jonathan - 2013

The poor can and do save, but often use formal or informal instruments that have high risk, high cost, and sub-optimal design. This could lead to undersaving compared to a world without market or behavioral frictions. Undersaving has important welfare consequences: variable consumption, low...

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Decentralizing education resources : school grants in Senegal

Carneiro, Pedro; Koussihouede, Oswald; Lahire, Nathalie; … - 2015

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...

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Vertical and horizontal decentralization and ethnic diversity in sub-Saharan Africa

Ranis, Gustav - 2012

Vertical decentralization, either at the deconcentration, delegation or, more rarely, the devolution level, has been … decentralization, shifting the decision-making power from the central ministry of finance to the ministries of education and health, as … decentralization with its important ethnic dimension and vertical decentralization. Local governments are accountable to the center …

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Expanding microenterprise credit access : using randomized supply decisions to estimate the impacts in Manila

Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2009

Microcredit seeks to promote business growth and improve well-being by expanding access to credit. We use a field experiment and follow-up survey to measure impacts of a credit expansion for microentrepreneurs in Manila. The effects are diffuse, heterogeneous, and surprising. Although there is...

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Altruism, favoritism, and guilt in the allocation of family resources : Sophie's choice in Mao's mass send down movement

Li, Hongbin; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2008

In this paper, we use new survey data on twins born in urban China, among whom many experienced the consequences of the forced mass rustication movement of the Chinesecultural revolution,ʺ to identify the distinct roles of altruism and guilt in affecting behavior within families. Based on a...

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Finding missing markets (and a disturbing epilogue) : evidence from an export crop adoption and marketing intervention in Kenya

Ashraf, Nava; Giné, Xavier; Karlan, Dean - 2008

In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted by DrumNet in Kenya that...

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