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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317637
UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698191
We test whether an environment of poverty affects time preferences through purely psychological channels. We measured … the role of economic constraints, we experimentally induced thoughts about poverty-related problems, using priming … techniques. We find that thinking about poverty increases the preference to consume entertainment early and to delay work. Using …
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In 2008, Uganda granted hundreds of small groups $ 400 per person to help members start individual skilled trades. Four years on, an experimental evaluation found grants raised earnings by 38% (Blattman, Fiala, Martinez 2014). We return after 9 years to find these start-up grants raised earnings...
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Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345364
In 2008, Uganda granted hundreds of small groups $400/person to help members start individual skilled trades. Four years on, an experimental evaluation found grants raised earnings by 38% (Blattman, Fiala, Martinez 2014). We return after 9 years to find these start-up grants raised earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994804
We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by the same decision task. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268949
been undertaken to reduce cheating in developing countries. Although some field evidence shows that poverty is correlated … with cheating, the causal effect of poverty on cheating in the field and the effectiveness of interventions for financially … Thailand (N = 568), in which we, first, investigate the causal effect of poverty on cheating and, second, test whether poverty …
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UK experience higher poverty rates than heterosexual and cis people. However, in these two regions, anti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882421
This study revisits the issue whether poverty and shocks are associated with high discount rates by using an incentive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624432