作者：Bandiera, Oriana; Buehren, Niklas; Goldstein, Markus; Rasul, Imran; Smurra, Andrea
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; The World Bank; University of London; University College London; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：Adolescent girls across low-income countries face disadvantages stemming from limited agency over their bodies and barriers to investing in their human capital. We study how these outcomes are shaped in times of aggregate crisis, in the context of the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. This is a setting in which adolescent girls have long faced disadvantage because of a high prevalence of sexual exploitation and violence towards them. Our study is based around an evaluation of a club-ba...
作者：Egorov, Georgy; Guriev, Sergei; Mironov, Maxim; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina
作者单位：Northwestern University; University of London; London Business School; IE University; Paris School of Economics
摘要：Why do political campaigns so often yield unexpected results? We address this question by separately estimating the direct effect of a campaign on targeted voters and the indirect effect on others in the same social environment. Partnering with a local NGO during Argentina's 2023 presidential election, we randomized the distribution of leaflets providing an expert assessment of the likely consequences of certain proposals by the outsider candidate Javier Milei. Exploiting Argentina's unique su...
