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Follow the money: Methods for identifying consumption and investment responses to a liquidity shock
Karlan, Dean; Osman, Adam; Zinman, Jonathan - 2013
Identifying the impacts of liquidity shocks on spending decisions is difficult methodologically but important for theory, practice, and policy. Using seven different methods on microenterprise loan applicants, we find striking results. Borrowers report uses of loan proceeds strategically, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369080
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Follow the money : methods for identifying consumption and investment responses to a liquidity shock
Karlan, Dean; Osman, Adam; Zinman, Jonathan - 2013
Identifying the impacts of liquidity shocks on spending decisions is difficult methodologically but important for theory, practice, and policy. Using seven different methods on microenterprise loan applicants, we find striking results. Borrowers report uses of loan proceeds strategically, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010202715
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Follow the Money: Methods for Identifying Consumption and Investment Responses to a Liquidity Shock
Karlan, Dean; Osman, Adam; Zinman, Jonathan - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2013
Identifying the impacts of liquidity shocks on spending decisions is difficult methodologically but important for theory, practice, and policy. Using seven different methods on microenterprise loan applicants, we find striking results. Borrowers report uses of loan proceeds strategically, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908070
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Unconditional Cash Transfers : A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Randomized Evaluations in Low and Middle Income Countries
Crosta, Tommaso - 2024
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015056104
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Continued existence of cows disproves central tenets of capitalism?
Anagol, Santosh; Etang, Alvin; Karlan, Dean - 2013
wages, households earn large, negative average returns from holding cows and buffaloes, at negative 64% and negative 39 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009790236
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Getting to the top of mind : how reminders increase saving
Karlan, Dean; McConnell, Margaret Mary; Mullainathan, … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994491
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Getting to the top of mind : how reminders increase saving
Karlan, Dean; McConnell, Margaret Mary; Mullainathan, … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994882
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Getting to the top of mind : how reminders increase saving
Karlan, Dean; McConnell, Margaret Mary; Mullainathan, … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003987983
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Getting to the top of mind : how reminders increase saving
Karlan, Dean; McConnell, Margaret Mary; Mullainathan, … - 2010
fully attend to consumption in all periods but fail to attend to some future lumpy expenditure opportunities. This asymmetry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008658481
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Getting to the Top of Mind : How Reminders Increase Saving
Karlan, Dean - 2010
fully attend to consumption in all periods but fail to attend to some future lumpy expenditure opportunities. This asymmetry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462450