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作者：Attanasio, Orazio P.; Oppedisano, Veruska; Vera-Hernandez, Marcos
作者单位：University of London; University College London; National Bureau of Economic Research; London Metropolitan University; University of London; University College London
摘要：We study a Conditional Cash Transfer program in which the cash transfers to the mother only depend on the fulfilment of the national preventive visit schedule by her children born before she registered in the program. We estimate that preventive visits of children born after the mother registered in the program are 50 percent lower because they are excluded from the conditionality requirement. Using the same variation, we also show that attendance to preventive care improves children health.
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作者：Beuermann, Diether W.; Cristia, Julian; Cueto, Santiago; Malamud, Ofer; Cruz-Aguayo, Yyannu
作者单位：Inter-American Development Bank; University of Chicago
摘要：This paper presents results from a randomized controlled trial whereby approximately 1,000 OLPC XO laptops were provided for home use to children attending primary schools in Lima, Peru. The intervention increased access and use of home computers, with some substitution away from computer use outside the home. Children randomized to receive laptops scored about 0.8 standard deviations higher in a test of XO proficiency but showed lower academic effort as reported by teachers. There were no imp...
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作者：Augsburg, Britta; De Haas, Ralph; Harmgart, Heike; Meghir, Costas
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; European Bank of Reconstructon & Development; Tilburg University; Yale University
摘要：We use an RCT to analyze the impacts of microcredit. The study population consists of loan applicants who were marginally rejected by an MFI in Bosnia. A random subset of these were offered a loan. We provide evidence of higher self-employment, increases in inventory, a reduction in the incidence of wage work and an increase in the labor supply of 16-19-year-olds in the household's business. We also present some evidence of increases in profits and a reduction in consumption and savings. There...
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作者：Bulman, George
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz
摘要：This paper examines if students' college outcomes are sensitive to access to college admissions tests. I construct a dataset of every test center location and district policy in the United States linked to the universe of individual testing records and a large sample of college enrollment records. I find evidence that SAT taking is responsive to the opening or closing of a testing center at a student's own or a neighboring high school and to policies that provide free in-school administration ...
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作者：Hill, Andrew J.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：This paper finds that a student's share of opposite gender school friends negatively affects high school GPA. It uses the gender composition of schoolmates in an individual's neighborhood as an instrument for the gender composition of an individual's self-reported friendship network. The effect occurs across all subjects for students older than 16, but only in mathematics and science for younger students. Additional results indicate effects may operate inside the classroom through difficulties...
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作者：Angelucci, Manuela; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Yale University; Dartmouth College
摘要：We use a clustered randomized trial, and over 16,000 household surveys, to estimate impacts at the community level from a group lending expansion at 110 percent APR by the largest microlender in Mexico. We find no evidence of transformative impacts on 37 outcomes (although some estimates have large confidence intervals), measured at a mean of 27 months post-expansion, across 6 domains: microen-trepreneurship, income, labor supply, expenditures, social status, and subjective well-being. We also...
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作者：Lu, Yi; Yu, Linhui
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Zhejiang University
摘要：In this paper, we empirically investigate whether trade liberalization affects markup dispersion, a potential source of resource misallocation. The identification uses China's WTO accession at the end of 2001. We show that trade liberalization reduces markup dispersion within a narrowly defined industry. We also examine both price and cost responses to trade liberalization, as well as heterogeneous effects across firms and across locations. Our study contributes to the literature by identifyin...
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作者：Behaghel, Luc; Crepon, Bruno; Le Barbanchon, Thomas
作者单位：INRAE; Paris School of Economics; Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ENSAE Paris
摘要：We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized resumes for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then randomly assigned to receive either anonymous resumes or name-bearing ones. We find that participating firms become less likely to interview and hire minority candidates when receiving anonymous resumes. We show how these unexpected results can be explained by the self-selection of firms into the pr...
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作者：Lang, Kevin; Weinstein, Russell
作者单位：Boston University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
摘要：Using five cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, we estimate the effect of teen motherhood on education, labor market, and marriage outcomes for teens conceiving from 1940 through 1968. Effects vary by marital status at conception, socioeconomic background, and year. Effects on teens married at conception were limited. However, teen mothers conceiving premaritally obtained less education and had a weaker marriage market. Teen mothers of the 1940s-1950s, affected by subsequent economi...
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作者：Buser, Thomas
作者单位：University of Amsterdam
摘要：How does income affect religiousness? Using self-collected survey data, we estimate the effects of income on religious behavior. As a source of exogenous income variation we use a change in the eligibility criteria for a government cash transfer in Ecuador and apply a regression discontinuity strategy to estimate causal effects. We find significant effects of income on religiousness. Families that earn more go to church more often. Families that earn more are also more likely to be members of ...
