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Proyectos productivos en tierras restituidas a víctimas del conflicto armado colombiano : un análisis de impacto cualitativo (Productive Projects in Land Restituted to Victims of t...

Moreno Sánchez, Rocio del Pilar - 2020

Spanish Abstract: En el marco de la reparación integral contemplada en la Ley de Víctimas, la Unidad de Restitución de Tierras crea el Programa Proyectos Productivos (PPP); su objetivo es garantizar la sostenibilidad del retorno de las víctimas del conflicto en Colombia, a partir de brindar...

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Interest Rates and Intertemporal Substitution for Indian Farm Households

Fetzer, James - 2008

This paper investigates how reported interest rates affect intertemporal substitution, or the substitution between present and future consumption. This is important since it indicates whether financial assets play a role in smoothing consumption. Most research in this area has represented the...

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Precautionary Behavior, Migrant Networks and Household Consumption Decisions : An Empirical Analysis Using Household Panel Data from Rural China

Giles, John - 2006

surveyed households facing a median level of consumption risk, we find that 10 percent of savings can be attributed to a …

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Vulnerability in a Stochastic Dynamic Model

Elbers, Chris - 2003

Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...

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What's Psychology Worth? A Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market

Bertrand, Marianne - 2008

Numerous laboratory studies report on behaviors inconsistent with rational economic models. How much do these inconsistencies matter in natural settings, when consumers make large, real decisions and have the opportunity to learn from experiences? We report on a field experiment designed to...

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Tying Odysseus to the Mast : Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Ashraf, Nava - 2005

We designed a commitment savings product for a Philippine bank and implemented it using a randomized control … methodology. The savings product was intended for individuals who want to commit now to restrict access to their savings, and who … for commitment, were indeed significantly more likely to open the commitment savings account. After twelve months, average …

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Female Empowerment : Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

Ashraf, Nava - 2010

-held commitment savings product leads to an increase in female decision-making power within the household. We find positive impacts …

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La restitución de tierras y la estabilización socioeconómica de los hogares desplazados en Colombia ¿Cómo vamos? (Land Restitution and Socioeconomic Stabilization of Displaced Hous...

Maldonado, Jorge H - 2020

Spanish Abstract: Con la implementación la Ley 1448 de 2011 se estableció que la restitución de tierras a los hogares que fueron víctimas del conflicto armado es responsabilidad de la Unidad Administrativa Especial de Gestión y Restitución de Tierras (URT). Entre varias estrategias...

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Migration and Informal Insurance

Meghir, Costas - 2019

Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...

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Migration and Informal Insurance

Meghir, Costas - 2019

Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly oﬀering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this ﬁnding using a...

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