Documents et rapports
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Experience in Financial Decision-Making : Field Evidence from Malawi (anglais)
Fifty-three percent of subjects who owned a high-fee account with a local bank in Malawi did not switch to a new, lower-fee account when given the choice. In contrast, holders of high-fee accounts who...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8576 Date du document: 5 septembre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gine,Xavier,Goldberg,Jessica Ann
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Savings defaults and payment delays for cash transfers: field experimental evidence from Malawi (anglais)
Financial products and transfer schemes are often designed to help individuals improve welfare by following through on intertemporal plans. This paper implements an artefactual field experiment in Malawi...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7807 Date du document: 31 août 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brune,Lasse Florian,Gine,Xavier,Goldberg,Jessica Ann,Yang,Dean
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Direct and indirect effects of Malawi’s public works program on food security (anglais)
Labor-intensive public works programs are important social protection tools in low-income settings, intended to supplement income of poor households and improve public infrastructure. In this evaluation...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7505 Date du document: 2 décembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beegle,Kathleen G.,Galasso,Emanuela,Goldberg,Jessica Ann
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Are rural road investments alone sufficient to generate transport flows? Lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Malawi and policy implications (anglais)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Are rural road investments alone sufficient to generate transport flows? Lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Malawi...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 81200 Date du document: 14 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Raballand,Gael J. R. F.,Thornton,Rebecca Lynn,Yang,Dean,Goldberg,Jessica Ann,Keleher,Niall,Muller, Annika
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Revising commitments : field evidence on the adjustment of prior choices (anglais)
The very poor in developing countries often make intertemporal choices that seem at odds with their individual self-interest. There are many possible reasons why. This paper investigates several of these...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6093 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gine,Xavier,Goldberg,Jessica Ann,Silverman,Daniel,Yang,Dean
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Commitments to save : a field experiment in rural Malawi (anglais)
This paper reports the results of a field experiment that randomly assigned smallholder cash crop farmers formal savings accounts. In collaboration with a microfinance institution in Malawi, the authors...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5748 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Brune,Lasse Florian,Gine,Xavier,Goldberg,Jessica Ann,Yang,Dean
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Are rural road investments alone sufficient to generate transport flows ? lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Malawi and policy implications (anglais)
This paper draws lessons from an original randomized experiment in Malawi. In order to understand why roads in relatively good condition in rural areas may not be used by buses, a minibus service was subsidized...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5535 Date du document: 1 janvier 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Muller, Annika,Goldberg,Jessica Ann,Keleher,Niall,Raballand,Gael J. R. F.,Thornton,Rebecca Lynn,Yang,Dean
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Identification strategy : a field experiment on dynamic incentives in rural credit markets (anglais)
How do borrowers respond to improvements in a lender's ability to punish defaulters? This paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment in rural Malawi that examines the impact of fingerprinting...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5438 Date du document: 1 octobre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gine,Xavier,Goldberg,Jessica Ann,Yang,Dean