2023

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• Regular Measuring time use in rural India: Design and validation of a low-cost survey module AI翻译
  作者：Field, Erica; Pande, Rohini; Rigol, Natalia; Schaner, Simone; Stacy, Elena; Moore, Charity Troyer
  作者单位：Duke University; Yale University; Harvard University; University of Southern California; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
  摘要：Time use data facilitate understanding of labor supply, especially for women who often undertake unpaid care and home production. Although assisted diary-based time use surveys are suitable for low-literacy populations, they are costly and rarely used. We create a low-cost, scalable alternative that captures contextually-determined broad time categories; here, allocations across market work, household labor, and leisure. Using fewer categories and larger time intervals takes 33% less time than...
• The freedom to choose: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence on cash transfer restrictions AI翻译
  作者：Siu, Jade; Sterck, Olivier; Rodgers, Cory
  作者单位：University of Oxford
  摘要：Should cash transfer programmes restrict consumer choice? For example, should food assistance delivered in cash be restricted to food and exclude temptation goods? Theoretically, restrictions induce (1) a substitution effect away from restricted goods and (2) a negative wealth effect if transfers are extra-marginal and the resale of goods is costly. The welfare impact on transfer recipients is negative. We test these predictions by exploiting a natural experiment in a refugee settlement in Ken...
• Subjective risk belief function in the field: Evidence from cooking fuel choices and health in India AI翻译
  作者：Yokoo, Hide-Fumi; Arimura, Toshi H.; Chattopadhyay, Mriduchhanda; Katayama, Hajime
  作者单位：Hitotsubashi University; Waseda University; University of Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES); Hitotsubashi University
  摘要：We investigate the accuracy of the perceptions of health risks in India. The context of our study is the risk of developing physical symptoms related to household air pollution caused by cooking. Using field data collected from 588 respondents in 17 villages in West Bengal, we regress the probability of symptoms on fuel choices to predict respondent-specific health risk changes. The estimated risks, which we treat as objective risks, are then compared with the corresponding subjective probabil...
• The more the poorer? Resource sharing and scale economies in large families? AI翻译
  作者：Calvi, Rossella; Penglase, Jacob; Tommasi, Denni; Wolf, Alexander
  作者单位：Rice University; California State University System; San Diego State University; University of Bologna
  摘要：In large families, individuals must share resources with many others but may benefit from economies of scale. This paper studies individual consumption in different types of households, with a focus on family structures that are common in developing countries. Based on a collective household model, we develop a methodology to identify intra-household resource allocation and the extent of joint consumption. Unlike existing approaches, we do not require consumption data on single-person househol...
• Political uncertainty and the forms of state capture AI翻译
  作者：Canen, Nathan; Ch, Rafael; Wantchekon, Leonard
  作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; National Bureau of Economic Research; Princeton University; Princeton University; Princeton University; University of Abomey Calavi; African School of Economics
  摘要：This paper studies when and why firms prefer more direct forms of state capture (i.e., directly capturing tenured state officials who implement policy, as bureaucrats) to more indirect ones (i.e., using intermediaries, such as elected officials, to influence bureaucrats). First, we propose a principal-agent model under political uncertainty. Firms can induce market distortions by making transfers to incumbents, but such incumbents may be displaced in an election. Direct capture acts as an insu...
• Locking crops to unlock investment: Experimental evidence on warrantage in Burkina Faso AI翻译
  作者：Delavallade, Clara; Godlonton, Susan
  作者单位：The World Bank; Williams College
  摘要：Warrantage is an innovative model of rural finance with the potential to overcome credit, crop storage, and behavioral constraints through a localized inventory credit system. Using a randomized controlled trial varying household level access to warrantage, we measure its impacts among households interested in participating. Among treated households, take-up of storage is high, while credit take-up is moderate. Treated households primarily store grains sell their production over an extended pe...
• Information Bypass: Using Low-cost technological innovations to curb leakages in welfare programs✩ AI翻译
  作者：Debnath, Sisir; Nilayamgode, Mrithyunjayan; Sekhri, Sheetal
  作者单位：Indian Institute of Technology System (IIT System); Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Delhi; University of Virginia
  摘要：Distribution networks entrusted to run welfare programs can have enduring leakages due to the expensive monitoring of agents at several echelons. This paper features a technological innovation harnessing low-cost computing that can help to curb leakages and reduce inefficiencies in such complex welfare distribution networks. A phone-based 'Interactive Voice Response System' that requires the last-mile distribution agents to report the number of beneficiaries at a very high frequency concurrent...
• Refugees and the education of host populations: Evidence from the Syrian inflow to Jordan AI翻译
  作者：Assaad, Ragui; Ginn, Thomas; Saleh, Mohamed
  作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
  摘要：While labor market impacts of refugees in low-and middle-income countries are commonly studied, public services like education could also be affected by mass arrivals. This paper examines the impact of Syrian refugees on the educational outcomes of Jordanians. Combining detailed household surveys with school-level records on the density of Syrians, we study both the quantity and quality of education using a difference -in-differences design across refugee prevalence and schooling cohort. We fi...
• Evolution of risk aversion over five years after a major natural disaster AI翻译
  作者：Ingwersen, Nicholas; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Thomas, Duncan
  作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Duke University
  摘要：The impact of exposure to a major unanticipated natural disaster on the evolution of survivors' attitudes toward risk is examined, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in combination with rich population-representative longitudinal survey data spanning the five years after the tsunami. Respondents chose among pairs of hypothetical income streams. Those directly exposed to the tsunami made choices consistent with greater willingness to take on ri...
• Motivating bureaucrats with behavioral insights when state capacity is weak: Evidence from large-scale field experiments in Peru? AI翻译
  作者：Dustan, Andrew; Hernandez-Agramonte, Juan Manuel; Maldonado, Stanislao
  作者单位：Vanderbilt University; Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA); Universidad del Rosario
  摘要：We study how text messages incorporating behavioral insights can be used as a tool to affect civil servant performance when state capacity is weak. By experimentally varying the content of a messaging campaign targeted to civil servants implementing a school maintenance program in Peru, we test the effectiveness of reminders and treatments making salient either monitoring, social norms, the possibility of public disclosure of noncompliance, or audit risk. All messaging treatments improve compl...