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作者：Jaramillo, Fernando; Kempf, Hubert; Moizeau, Fabien
作者单位：Universidad del Rosario; Universite Paris Saclay; Paris School of Economics; Universite de Rennes; Institut Universitaire de France
摘要：We study the relationship between the distribution of individuals' attributes over the population and the extent of risk sharing in a risky environment. We consider a society where individuals voluntarily form risk-sharing groups in the absence of financial markets. We obtain a partition of society into distinct coalitions leading to partial risk sharing. When individuals differ only with respect to risk, the partition is homophily-based: the less risky agents congregate together and reject mo...
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作者：Valdivia, Martin
摘要：With millions of women around the developing world thrown into self-employment but with low productivity, increasing the profitability of their businesses is highly relevant for poverty reduction and gender equity. This study evaluates the impacts of a BDS program serving female microentrepreneurs in Lima using an experimental design, that included two treatment groups: One received only general training (GT), albeit more time-intense than previous studies, and delivered by experts, while the ...
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作者：Bauchet, Jonathan; Morduch, Jonathan; Ravi, Shamika
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; New York University; Brookings Institution
摘要：We analyze a randomized trial of an innovative anti-poverty program in South India, part of a series of pilot programs that provide ultra-poor households with inputs to create new, sustainable livelihoods (often tending livestock). In contrast with results from other pilots, we find no lasting net impact on income or asset accumulation in South India. We explore concerns with program implementation, data errors, and the existence of compelling employment alternatives. The baseline consumption ...
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作者：Kilby, Christopher
作者单位：Villanova University
摘要：This paper assesses the impact of World Bank project preparation on project outcomes via a two-step estimation procedure. Using a stochastic frontier model, I generate a measure of World Bank project preparation duration based only on variation in political economy factors that are exogenous to latent project quality. Panel analysis of project data finds that projects with longer preparation periods are significantly more likely to have satisfactory outcome ratings. This result is robust acros...
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作者：Guirkinger, Catherine; Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Goetghebuer, Tatiana
作者单位：University of Namur
摘要：In Sub-Saharan African farm households, two types of plot management often coexist: collective fields are farmed jointly by household members under the authority of the head while individual plots are autonomously managed by members. In this paper we explore the productivity differentials between collective and individual plots in the context of extended family farms. We find that land yields are significantly larger on male private plots than on common plots after all appropriate controls hav...
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作者：Fisher-Vanden, Karen; Mansur, Erin T.; (Juliana) Wang, Qiong
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Dartmouth College; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Southern California
摘要：Unreliable inputs to production, particularly those that are difficult to store, can significantly limit firms' productivity, leading them to react in a number of ways. This paper uses a panel of 23,000 energy-intensive, Chinese firms from 1999 to 2004 to examine how firms responded to severe power shortages in the early 2000s. Our results suggest that, in response to electricity scarcity, Chinese firms re-optimize among inputs to production by substituting materials for energy (both electric ...
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作者：Singh, Abhijeet
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：I present the first value-added models of learning production in private and government schools in India using unique panel data from Andhra Pradesh state. I examine the heterogeneity in private school value-added across different subjects, urban and rural areas, medium of instruction, and across age groups. Further, I also estimate private school effects on children's self-efficacy and agency. In rural areas, I find a substantial positive effect (>0.5 SD) of private schools on English, no eff...
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作者：Shapiro, D. A.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要：Dynamic incentives, where incentives to repay are generated by granting access to future loans, are one of the methodologies used by microfinance institutions (MFIs). In this paper, I present a model of dynamic incentives where lenders are uncertain over how much borrowers value future loans. Loan terms are determined endogenously, and loans become more favorable as the probability of default becomes lower. I show that in all equilibria but one all borrowers, including the most patient ones, e...
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作者：Chaurey, Ritam
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
摘要：Labor regulations in India differ by states and apply differently across types of laborers. The most restrictive laws make it harder to fire permanent workers for firms. However, these laws do not apply to workers hired through contractors (contract workers). Using firm-level data from India, I find that compared to firms in flexible labor regulations, those in more restrictive labor regimes hire more contract workers as a response to transitory local demand shocks. I find no differential resp...
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作者：Roy, Sanchari
作者单位：University of Sussex
摘要：This paper examines the impact of gender-progressive reforms to the inheritance law in India on women's outcomes. Despite stipulating that daughters would have equal shares as sons in ancestral property, I find that the reform failed to increase the actual likelihood of women inheriting property. Instead, parents appear to be gifting their share of land to their sons in order to circumvent the law. However, parents also appear to be compensating their daughters for such disinheritance by givin...
