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作者：Seshan, Ganesh; Yang, Dean
作者单位：Qatar Foundation (QF); Georgetown University in Qatar; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We randomly assigned male migrant workers in Qatar invitations to a motivational workshop aimed at improving financial habits and encouraging joint decision-making with spouses back home in India. 13-17 months later, we surveyed migrants and wives to estimate intent-to-treat impacts in their transnational households. Wives of treated migrants changed their financial practices and became more likely to seek out financial education themselves. Treated migrants and their wives became more likely ...
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作者：Hidrobo, Melissa; Hoddinott, John; Peterman, Amber; Margolies, Amy; Moreira, Vanessa
作者单位：CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; The World Bank
摘要：The debate over whether to provide food-assistance and the form that this assistance should take has a long history in economics. Despite the ongoing debate, little rigorous evidence exists that compares food-assistance in the form of cash versus in-kind. This paper uses a randomized evaluation to assess the impacts and cost-effectiveness of cash, food vouchers, and food transfers. We find that all three modalities significantly improve the quantity and quality of food consumed. However, diffe...
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作者：Cao, Kang Hua; Birchenall, Javier A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
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作者：Bardhan, Pranab; Luca, Michael; Mookherjee, Dilip; Pino, Francisco
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Harvard University; Boston University; Universite Libre de Bruxelles
摘要：This paper studies how land reform and population growth affect land inequality and landlessness, focusing particularly on indirect effects owing to their influence on household divisions and land market transactions. Theoretical predictions of a model of household division and land transactions are successfully tested using household panel data from West Bengal spanning 1967-2004. The tenancy reform lowered inequality through its effects on household divisions and land market transactions, bu...
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作者：Bhattacharya, Sourav; Kundu, Tapas
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; UiT The Arctic University of Tromso
摘要：Poor communities sometimes resist private investment and destroy economic surplus even if the government has the willingness and ability to redistribute. We interpret such acts of resistance as demands for redistribution: Destruction contains credible information about how the affected group values surplus, and such information is used by the government in implementing the optimal redistribution policy. The extent of destruction is increasing in the extent of political marginalization of the a...
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作者：Fenske, James
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Tree crops have changed land tenure in Africa. Farmers have acquired permanent, alienable rights, but have also faced disputes with competing claimants and the state. Para rubber had many similar effects in the Benin region of colonial Nigeria. Farmers initially obtained land by traditional methods. Mature farms could be sold, let out, and used to raise credit. Disputes over rubber involved smallholders, communities of rival users, and migrants. The impact of tree crop commercialization in Ben...
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作者：Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mookherjee, Dilip
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Boston University
摘要：This paper addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialization ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are leasing in land from a private owner or local government with a legally mandated sharecropping contract. Compensation rules affect the decision of the landlord to sell the land ex post to an industrial developer, and ex ante incentives of tenants and landlord to make specific investments in agricultura...
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作者：Fredriksson, Anders
作者单位：University of Namur; Universidade de Sao Paulo; Stockholm University
摘要：Intermediaries that assist individuals and firms with the government bureaucracy are common in developing countries. Although such bureaucracy intermediaries are, anecdotally, linked with corruption and welfare losses, few formal analyses exist. We introduce a model in which a government license can benefit individuals. We study the net license gain when individuals get the license through the regular licensing procedure, through bribing or through intermediaries. For a given procedure, indivi...
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作者：Wang, Shing-Yi
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This paper examines whether an individual-level transfer of property rights increases the individual's bargaining power within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing tenants the opportunity to purchase the homes that they had been renting from their state employers. The rights to each housing unit were granted to a particular employee, so property rights were defined at the individual level rather than the household ...
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作者：Kazianga, Harounan; de Walque, Damien; Alderman, Harold
作者单位：Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; The World Bank; CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
摘要：We evaluate the impact of two school feeding schemes on health outcomes of pre-school age children in Burkina Faso: school meals which provide students with lunch each school day, and take home rations which provide girls with 10 kg of cereal flour each month, conditional on 90% attendance rate. We investigated the pass through to younger siblings of the beneficiaries and found that take home rations have increased weight-for-age of boys and girls under age 5 by 0.4 standard deviations compare...
