Documents et rapports
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Field and Natural Experiments in Migration (anglais)
Many research and policy questions surrounding migration are causal questions. What causes people to migrate? What are the consequences of migration for the migrants, their families, and their communities?...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10250 Date du document: 1 décembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.,Yang,Dean
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Aspirations and Financial Decisions : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines (anglais)
A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations. In theory, raising aspirations could have positive effects by inducing higher effort...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9586 Date du document: 17 mars 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.,Mohpal,Aakash,Yang,Dean
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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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The World Bank research observer 30 (2) (anglais)
The World Bank Research Observer is intended for anyone who has a professional interest in development. Observer articles are written to be accessible to nonspecialist readers; contributors examine key...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 120315 Date du document: 1 août 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.,Yang,Dean,Boyden,Jo,Dercon,Stefan,Singh,Abhijeet,Miller,Margaret J.,Reichelstein,Julia Elaine,Salas,Christian,Zia,Bilal Husnain,Bhargava,Alok,Quatraro,Francesco,Vivarelli,Marco
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Evidence on policies to increase the development impacts of international migration (anglais)
International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in their incomes and offers a number of other positive benefits to the sending communities...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 120312 Date du document: 1 août 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.,Yang,Dean
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Evidence on policies to increase the development impacts of international migration (anglais)
International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in their incomes, and offers a large number of other positive benefits to the sending...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7057 Date du document: 1 octobre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.,Yang,Dean
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Will migrants remit more if they can channel payments directly for education? lab-in-the-field and proof of concept trial results (anglais)
This note summarizes a proof of concept trial of a new product designed to allow migrants to send remittances for educational purposes. Migrant remittances are one of the largest international financial...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 90901 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: De Arcangelis, Giuseppe,Joxhe, Majlinda,Mckenzie,David J.,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.,Yang,Dean
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Directing remittances to education with soft and hard commitments : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment and new product take-up among Filipino migrants in Rome (anglais)
This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational purposes using different forms of commitment. Variants of a dictator game in a lab-in-the-field...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6896 Date du document: 1 mai 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: De Arcangelis, Giuseppe,Joxhe, Majlinda,Mckenzie,David J.,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.,Yang,Dean
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Distortions in the international migrant labor market : evidence from Filipino migration and wage responses to destination country economic shocks (anglais)
The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to gross domestic product (GDP) shocks in destination countries...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 92929 Date du document: 1 avril 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.,Theoharides, Caroline,Yang,Dean
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Unilateral facilitation does not raise international labor migration from the Philippines (anglais)
Significant income gains from migrating from poorer to richer countries have motivated unilateral (source-country) policies facilitating labor emigration. However, their effectiveness is unknown. The authors...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6689 Date du document: 1 novembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beam,Emily A.,Mckenzie,David J.,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 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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Insurance, credit, and technology adoption : field experimental evidence from Malawi. (anglais)
This brief summarizes the insurance, credit, and technology adoption: field experimental evidence from Malawi. The farmers were offered loans for the November 2006 planting season. Does production risk...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 81382 Date du document: 14 août 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gine,Xavier,Yang,Dean
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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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Distortions in the international migrant labor market :evidence from Filipino migration and wage responses to destination country economic shocks (anglais)
The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to gross domestic product shocks in destination countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6041 Date du document: 1 avril 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.,Theoharides, Caroline,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
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Experimental approaches in migration studies (anglais)
The decision of whether or not to migrate has far-reaching consequences for the lives of individuals and their families. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5395 Date du document: 1 août 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.,Yang,Dean
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Insurance, credit, and technology adoption : field experimental evidence from Malawi (anglais)
The adoption of new agricultural technologies may be discouraged because of their inherent riskiness. This study implemented a randomized field experiment to ask whether the provision of insurance against...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4425 Date du document: 1 décembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gine,Xavier,Yang,Dean
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Are remittances insurance? Evidence from rainfall shocks in the Philippines (anglais)
Several facts motivate this study. First, life in developing countries is prone to many kinds of risk, such as crop and income loss due to natural disasters (weather, insect infestations, and fire) and...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77545 Date du document: 1 mai 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Choi, HwaJung,Yang,Dean