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HIV testing, subjective beliefs and economic behavior
Thornton, Rebecca L. - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 300-313
This paper examines the effects of learning HIV status on economic behavior among rural Malawians. According to economic life-cycle models, if learning HIV results is informative about additional years of life, being diagnosed HIV-positive or negative should predict changes in consumption,...
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Risk Preferences Under Extreme Poverty: A Field Experiment
Orozco, Gustavo Adolfo Caballero - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2010
Until now, the dominant belief concerning the relationship between poverty and risk aversion is that the poor are more risk averse. If the poor are more risk averse, then they will choose "low risk–low return" activities that trap them in poverty. However, both empirical and experimental...
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Using Government Programs to Encourage Employment, Increase Earnings, and Grow the Economy
Haskins, Ron - 2018
There has been a steady decline over six decades in the share of adult men in the labor force. After five decades of historic increases, in 2000 the share of women in the labor force peaked and has declined slightly since. The 1996 welfare reform law imposed work requirements on mothers on...
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Social Protection Amidst Social Upheaval : Examining the Impact of a Multi-Faceted Program for Ultra-Poor Households in Yemen
Brune, Lasse - 2020
Social protection programs are needed more than ever during periods of social upheaval, but are also likely to be even harder to implement successfully. Furthermore, social upheaval makes measuring the impact of such policies all the more difficult. We study the impact of a multi-faceted social...
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The Effect of One-On-One Assistance on the Compliance with Labor Regulation. A Field Experiment in Extremely Vulnerable Settings
Cabrera, Jose Maria - 2017
This is the first paper to analyze the effects of intense personal assistance on the compliance with labor regulation, within a population of deeply disadvantaged informal workers, using a field experiment. We randomly assign one-on-one assistance to these workers, and, within this treatment...
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Agent-Based Models in Development Economics
Chávez-Juárez, Florian - 2015
In this article I discuss the potential role of agent-based modeling techniques in development economics. Development economics has recently seen a strong rise of experimental evidence from the field and the laboratory. At the same time, there is a debate on how theory should adapt to this new...
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How Effective Is (More) Money? Randomizing Unconditional Cash Transfer Amounts in the US
Jaroszewicz, Ania; Jachimowicz, Jon; Hauser, Oliver; … - 2022
We randomized over 5,000 US individuals in poverty to one of three conditions during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: receiving a one-time $500 unconditional cash transfer (UCT; half a month’s worth of total household income for the median participant; N=1,374), a $2,000 UCT (two...
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Subjective Risk, Confidence, and Ambiguity
Traeger, Christian P. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011
his confidence in the uncertainty assessment of a particular setting. …
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Discounting and confidence
Traeger, Christian P. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2011
The paper analyzes the discount rate under uncertainty. The analysis complements the probabilistic characterization of … uncertainty by a measure of confidence. Special cases of the model comprise discounting under smooth ambiguity aversion as well as … general class of preferences for which uncertainty implies a reduction of the discount rate. It also characterizes how the …
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Subjective risk, confidence, and ambiguity
Traeger, Christian P. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2009
his confidence in the uncertainty assessment of a particular setting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646078