作者：Schaner, Simone
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：I use a field experiment in rural Kenya to study how temporary incentives to save impact long-run economic outcomes. Study participants randomly selected to receive large temporary interest rates on an individual bank account had significantly more income and assets 2.5-3.5 years after the interest rates expired. These changes are much larger than the short-run impacts on experimental bank account use and almost entirely driven by growth in entrepreneurship. In contrast, interest rates on join...
作者：Ozier, Owen
作者单位：The World Bank
摘要：I investigate whether a school-based deworming intervention in Kenya had long-term effects on young children. I exploit positive externalities from the program to estimate impacts on younger children who were not directly treated. Ten years after the intervention, I find large cognitive effects-comparable to between 0.5 and 0.8 years of schooling-for children who were less than one year old when their communities received school-based mass deworming treatment. I find no effect on child height ...
作者：Borgschulte, Mark; Martorell, Paco
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：This paper provides revealed preference estimates of the monetary value to workers of a lower unemployment rate at the time of job separation. By examining the decision between reenlisting and exiting the military, we find that service members would sacrifice 1.5-2 percent in earnings to avoid a 1 percentage point increase in the home-state unemployment rate during job search. Comparing these quantities to realized earnings losses for those who separate suggests that the value of nonwork time ...
