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Behavioral foundations of microcredit: Experimental and survey evidence from rural India
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Morduch, Jonathan - 2010
Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south India to highlight behavioral features of microcredit. Conditional on borrowing from any source,...
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Behavioral foundations of microcredit: Experimental and survey evidence from rural India
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Morduch, Jonathan - 2008
rural Karnataka, India. Evidence from the experiments were integrated with individual survey data on the economic and …
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Do children make women more patient? Experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
This paper studies gender heterogeneity in preferences. We used experimental methods to elicit the subjective discount rate and attitude toward risk in Indian villages. Results show that women made more patient choices than men and that their discount rate is related to number of children. No...
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Leerstand von Einfamilienhäusern: Ein dörfliches Problem?
Lohse, Jacqueline; Vandrei, Lars - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 23 (2016) 6, pp. 20-25
Ein großer Teil des Leerstands im Einfamilienhaussegment lässt sich durch strukturelle Regionsmerkmale erklären. Das Ausmaß des Leerstands in einer Gemeinde hängt darüber hinaus von den baulichen Eigenschaften ab, die den Einfamilienhausbestand der Region charakterisieren. Dabei kommt es...
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Human capital development and parental investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015
In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production function include parental background, prior child cognition...
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Analysis of the land use sector in INDCs of relevant Non-Annex I parties
Hargita, Yvonne; Rüter, Sebastian - 2016
The international community has committed itself to adopt a global climate agreement in Paris in 2015, which shall enter into force in 2020 and shall be legally-binding for all. In advance of the negotiations, parties shall submit the so-called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions...
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Rote Biotechnologie: Deutschland noch nicht an der Spitze in Europa
Soete, Birgit - In: DIW Wochenbericht 73 (2006) 26, pp. 381-388
Deutschland sowie den ebenfalls untersuchten Ländern Indien und Israel über die ausgereifteste Biotechnologieindustrie und ein …
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Indien: Entwicklung auf Kosten des Klimas
Haftendorn, Clemens; Freund, Karen; von Hirschhausen, … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 51/52, pp. 818-824
Der Pro-Kopf-Stromverbrauch in Indien, der heute noch zwölf Mal niedriger ist als in Deutschland, soll sich laut … konzentriert sich auf bestehende Wasserkraftwerke. Indien befindet sich derzeit also auf einem Entwicklungspfad, der den globalen …,3 Milliarden Tonnen CO2- Ausstoß im Jahr 2030 gegenüber 1,15 Milliarden Tonnen im Jahr 2005 ist Indien auf dem Weg, der drittgrößte …
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Optimal currency shares in international reserves: the impact of the euro and the prospects for the dollar
Papaioannou, Elias; Portes, Richard; Siourounis, Gregorios - 2006
Foreign exchange reserve accumulation has risen dramatically in recent years. The introduction of the euro, greater liquidity in other major currencies, and the rising current account deficits and external debt of the United States have increased the pressure on central banks to diversify away...
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