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Business literacy and development: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in rural Mexico
Calderon, Gabriela; Cunha, Jesse M.; De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2013
This paper explores whether the poor performance of many micro-enterprises can be explained by a lack of basic business skills. We randomized the offer of a free, 48-hour business skills course to female entrepreneurs in rural Mexico. We find that those assigned to treatment earn higher profits,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392390
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Myopic misery: Maternal depression, child investments, and the neurobiological poverty trap
Strulik, Holger - 2016
In this paper, I explore in an overlapping generations framework, a mechanism motivating a neurobiological poverty trap. Poverty causes stress and depression in individuals susceptible to depression. Poor and depressed individuals discount the future at a higher rate and invest less in the human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557040
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Information, coordination, and the industrialization of countries
Englmaier, Florian; Reisinger, Markus - 2006
possible problems with overreaction to public information. Furthermore, we suggest a new focus for development policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261419
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Information, Coordination, and the Industrialization of Countries
Englmaier, Florian; Reisinger, Markus - 2006
possible problems with overreaction to public information. Furthermore, we suggest a new focus for development policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333827
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Behavioral design: A new approach to development policy
Datta, Saugato; Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2014
Successful development programs rely on people to behave and choose in certain ways, and behavioral economics helps us … understand why people behave and choose as they do. Approaching problems in development using behavioral economics thus leads to … better diagnosis and to better-designed solutions. This paper sketches how to use behavioral insights to design development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420602
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Risk preferences and development revisited: A field experiment in Vietnam
Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Truong, Nghi; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2013
We obtain rich measures of risk preferences of poor farmers in Vietnam, and estimate structural models that capture risk preferences over different probability levels and across different domains (gains and losses). The results break radically with the previous literature on risk preferences, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325109
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Community aspirations and collective action
Martini, Christina; Ibanez, Marcela; Khadjavi, Menusch - 2021
We propose that community aspirations defined as the preferences for goals that increase communal well-being are an important determinant of cooperation in collective action problems. This paper conceptualizes community aspirations and investigates whether the proposed measure is associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496049
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Measuring risk preferences in rural Ethiopia: Risk tolerance and exogenous income proxies
Vieider, Ferdinand M.; Beyene, Abebe; Bluffstone, Randall; … - 2014
extensive methodological discussions on measuring and estimating risk preferences in development settings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421088
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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?
Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015
Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to humanitarian assistance, systematic learning from such interventions using rigorous theory-based impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481649
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Out with the sleaze, in with the ease: Insufficient for entrepreneurial development?
Naudé, Wim - 2009
Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that …) opportunitymotivated entrepreneurship (as opposed to necessity-motivated entrepreneurship) drives economic growth; (ii) governance and the … start-up costs are not significant determinants of opportunity entrepreneurship; and (iii) better governance leads to higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273479