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What do we know about the impact of microfinance? : the problems of power and precision
Dahal, Mahesh; Fiala, Nathan - 2018
policy makers to conclude that microfinance has been proven to have little or no positive impacts on people’s lives. We … that existing research on the impact of microfinance is generally underpowered to identify impacts, whether modest or zero …
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What do we know about the impact of microfinance? : The problems of statistical power and precision
Dahal, Mahesh; Fiala, Nathan - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 128 (2020), pp. 1-14
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The ethics of New Development Economics: is the Experimental Approach to Development Economics morally wrong?
Baele, Stéphane J. - In: The Journal of Philosophical Economics 7 (2013) 1
The 2000s have witnessed the arrival and growing popularity of randomized controlled experiments (RCTs) in Development … discussion of the moral issues that accompany the use of RCTs in Development Economics. Claiming that this new research agenda …
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The consequences of narrow framing for risk-taking: A stress test of myopic loss aversion
Schwaiger, Rene; Strucks, Markus; Zeisberger, Stefan - 2024
Narrow bracketing in combination with loss aversion has been shown to reduce individual risk-taking. This is known as myopic loss aversion (MLA) and has been corroborated by many studies. Recent evidence has contested this notion indicating that MLA's applicability is confined to highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517472
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The consequences of narrow framing for risk-taking : a stress test of myopic loss aversion
Schwaiger, Rene; Strucks, Markus; Zeisberger, Stefan - 2024
Narrow bracketing in combination with loss aversion has been shown to reduce individual risk-taking. This is known as myopic loss aversion (MLA) and has been corroborated by many studies. Recent evidence has contested this notion indicating that MLA's applicability is confined to highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512884
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Re-Re-Reply to “The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence”
Pitt, Mark Martin - 2014
“The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence,” by David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch (2014) is the most recent of a sequence of papers and postings that seeks to refute the findings of the Pitt and Khandker (1998) article “The Impact of Group-Based Credit...
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Replication to assess statistical adequacy
Owen, P. Dorian - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-60, pp. 1-16
argues for more emphasis on replication that specifically assesses whether the results reported in empirical studies are … diagnostic tests for misspecification. A replication plan is briefly outlined to illustrate what this would involve in practice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917552
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Replication of Dickens (2022) "Understanding Ethnolinguistic Differences: The Roles of Geography and Trade"
Gonzalez, Javier; Özak, Ömer - 2023
.12). We conduct a direct replication of the paper by (i) reconstructing the main independent variables using the same original …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340148
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Replication to assess statistical adequacy
Owen, Dorian - 2017
argues for more emphasis on replication that specifically assesses whether the results reported in empirical studies are … diagnostic tests of misspecification. A replication plan is briefly outlined to illustrate what this would involve in practice in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725210
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Replication to assess statistical adequacy
Owen, Dorian - 2017
argues for more emphasis on replication that specifically assesses whether the results reported in empirical studies are … diagnostic tests of misspecification. A replication plan is briefly outlined to illustrate what this would involve in practice in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011724631