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作者：Augsburg, Britta; Baquero, Juan P.; Gautam, Sanghmitra; Rodriguez-Lesmes, Paul
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Boston College; Washington University (WUSTL); Universidad del Rosario
摘要：This paper measures the additional value of sanitation within the marriage arrangement. We use data from the Indian human development household survey (IHDS) to model the marital decisions of men and women in rural India and to estimate the marital surplus (the gains from being married). We use the model to demonstrate that the government's Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) increased marital surplus and changed marriage market outcomes for men and women. Decomposition reveals (i) that sanitation...
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作者：Blakeslee, David; Dar, Aaditya; Fishman, Ram; Malik, Samreen; Pellegrina, Heitor S.; Bagavathinathan, Karan Singh
作者单位：New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi; Indian School of Business (ISB); Tel Aviv University
摘要：We study the long-term impact of large-scale irrigation infrastructure on the composition of local economic activity in India. Our analysis uses high-resolution spatial data covering approximately 150,000 villages and towns and exploits spatial discontinuities in the coverage of irrigation projects. Irrigation increases agricultural output, wealth, and population density in rural villages. However, in towns it reduces population and nightlight density, the size of the non-agricultural sector, ...
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作者：Schechter, Laura; Vasudevan, Srinivasan
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Chicago
摘要：During the 2014 Indian general elections, we carried out a large-scale experiment randomizing a radio campaign highlighting the disadvantages of voting for corrupt vote-buying candidates. Official electoral data show that the radio campaign significantly decreased the vote share of parties that engaged in the most vote buying (as reported by journalists). Voter survey data show that the campaign increased the salience of corruption as an election issue and decreased voting for parties that off...
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作者：Gautam, Sanghmitra
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：This paper analyzes the impact of externalities on household demand for sanitation and the subsequent welfare effects generated from policy interventions. A critical feature of household sanitation (e.g., toilets) is that the take-up generates externalities where the privately chosen level is less than the socially optimal. To analyze the impact of policy interventions, I explicitly model household choice, taking into account the interdependence of household decision-making within the village....
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作者：Gebresilasse, Mesay
作者单位：Amherst College
摘要：Low agricultural productivity is a persistent challenge for developing economies. Expansions of rural roads and agricultural extension, separately, have been proposed as solutions with mixed effectiveness. In this paper, I show that it is critical to consider roads and extension together due to their strong complementarities. I study the concurrent but independent expansions of rural roads and extension in Ethiopia, and find that, while ineffective in isolation, access to both a road and exten...
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作者：Gazeaud, Jules; Khan, Nausheen; Mvukiyehe, Eric; Sterck, Olivier
作者单位：Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB); American University Cairo; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universite Clermont Auvergne (UCA); The World Bank; Duke University; University of Oxford; University of Antwerp
摘要：Is it possible to stimulate women's income-generating activities by relaxing their financial and human capital constraints? Does involving husbands help or hinder the effort? We examine these questions using a three-arm randomized-controlled trial with 2000 women in Tunisia. Women in the two treatment arms were offered a large cash grant (worth USD768 in PPP terms) and a gender-sensitive financial training. In one of the treatment arms, women were additionally encouraged to bring their male pa...
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作者：Dasgupta, Aparajita; Majid, Farhan; Orman, Wafa Hakim
作者单位：Ashoka University; American Institutes for Research; University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Huntsville
摘要：We study the impact of beef sale and possession bans in India on women's anemia by leveraging a natural experiment arising from the state-level rollout of beef bans. We hypothesize that these bans differentially affect groups that traditionally eat beef - Muslims, Christians, and Scheduled-Caste Hindus. We compile rich data on beef-ban legislation by states over time and harmonize them with household and individual level data on biomarkers and consumption. Estimating a triple difference-in-dif...
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作者：Kubilay, Elif; Raiber, Eva; Spantig, Lisa; Cahlikova, Jana; Kaaria, Lucy
作者单位：University of Essex; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Aix-Marseille Universite; RWTH Aachen University; University of Bonn; University of Nairobi
摘要：The expansion of digital financial services leads to severe consumer protection issues such as fraud and scams. As these potentially decrease trust in digital services, especially in developing countries, avoiding victimization has become an important policy objective. In an online experiment, we first investigate how well individuals in Kenya identify phone scams using a novel measure of scam identification ability. We then test the effectiveness of scam education, a commonly used approach by...
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作者：Seim, Brigitte; Jablonski, Ryan; Ahlback, Johan
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
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作者：Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Molina, Teresa; Nyshadham, Anant; Tamayo, Jorge; Torres, Nicolas
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Hawaii System; University of Hawaii Manoa; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Harvard University
摘要：The health effects of dirty(fossil fuel driven) energy production are difficult to measure accurately due to the endogeneity of fuel choice. We exploit an electricity policy in Colombia that generates a price-based trigger for the use of thermal energy sources. Comparing municipalities near high versus low capacity plants, we first document that the activation of this trigger - which increased thermal energy production - led to significantly higher local pollution levels. This change increased...
