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Indirect effects of an aid program: the case of progresa and consumption
Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2006
effects. We exploit the unique design of an aid program's experimental trial to identify its indirect effect on consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272327
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Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: The Case of Progresa and Consumption
Angelucci, Manuela; Giorgi, Giacomo De - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
effects. We exploit the unique design of an aid program's experimental trial to identify its indirect effect on consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761976
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Wealthy, healthy, and wise: does money compensate for being born into difficult conditions?
Manley, James; Fernald, Lia; Gertler, Paul - Department of Economics, Towson University - 2012
Recent studies have linked transfers from Mexican conditional cash transfer program Oportunidades (formerly PROGRESA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651607
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Oh Brother! Testing the Etiology of Sibling Effects Using External Cash Transfers
Manley, James; Fernald, Lia; Gertler, Paul - Department of Economics, Towson University - 2012
Siblings can slow child development, but distinguishing intrinsic from economic circumstances has been more difficult. The grants of the Oportunidades Mexican welfare program allo w us to test this linkage. We investigate whether transfers increase firstborn characteristics faster than other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651608
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Conspicuous Consumption and Peer Effects among the Poor: Evidence From a Field Experiment
Roth, Christopher P - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014
I use a randomised conditional cash transfer program from Indonesia to provide evidence on peer effects in consumption … of poor households. I combine this with consumption visibility data from Indonesia to examine whether peer effects in … consumption differ by a good’s visibility. In line with a model of conspicuous consumption, I find that the expenditure share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942394
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Prices and social behavior: A study of adult smoking in Canadian Aboriginal communities
Matheson, Jesse - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2011
This paper provides the first estimates of tobacco price elasticity for adults in Canada's Aboriginal communities, distinguishing between two price effects: the direct effect, reflecting individual reaction to a price change, and the indirect effect, whereby price influences the individual by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393247
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Conspicuous Consumption and Peer Effects among the Poor: Evidence From a Field Experiment
Roth, Christopher P. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
I use a randomised conditional cash transfer program from Indonesia to provide evidence on peer effects in consumption … of poor households.  I combine this with consumption visibility data from Indonesia to examine whether peer effects in … consumption differ by a good's visibility.  In line with a model of conspicuous consumption, I find that the expenditure share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164425
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The Behavioral Effect of Pigovian Regulation: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Lanz, Bruno; Wurlod, Jules-Daniel; Panzone, Luca; … - 2017
Pigovian regulation provides monetary penalties/rewards to incentivize prosocial behavior, and may thereby trigger behavioral effects beyond a more standard response associated with a change in relative prices. This paper quantifies the magnitude of these behavioral effects using data from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957736
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The behavioral effect of Pigovian regulation : evidence from a field experiment
Lanz, Bruno; Wurlod, Jules-Daniel; Panzone, Luca; … - 2017 - This version: January 2017
Pigovian regulation provides monetary penalties/rewards to incentivize prosocial behavior, and may thereby trigger behavioral effects beyond a more standard response associated with a change in relative prices. This paper quantifies the magnitude of these behavioral effects using data from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622497
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Does Workfare Work Well? The Case of the Employment Generation Program for the Poorest in Bangladesh
Cho, Yoon Y.; Ruthbah, Ummul - 2018
consumption and reducing outstanding loans. In particular, expenditures on quality food and health care have significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873477