Documents et rapports
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Using Individual-Level Randomized Treatment to Learn about Market Structure? (anglais)
Interference across competing firms in RCTs can be informative about market structure. An experiment that subsidizes a random sub-set of traders who buy cocoa from farmers in Sierra Leone illustrates this...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 185247 Date du document: 16 octobre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Casaburi,Lorenzo,Reed,Tristan
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Together we will : experimental evidence on female voting behavior in Pakistan (anglais)
In many emerging democracies women are less likely to vote than men and, when they do vote, are likely to follow the wishes of male household and clan heads. We assess the impact of a voter awareness campaign...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 126639 Date du document: 1 janvier 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gine,Xavier,Mansuri,Ghazala
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Customary norms, inheritance, and human capital : evidence from a reform of the matrilineal system in Ghana (anglais)
The authors study the role of traditional norms in land allocation and human capital investment. The authors exploit a policy experiment in Ghana that increased the land that children from matrilineal...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 122570 Date du document: 1 octobre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: La Ferrara,Eliana,Milazzo,Annamaria
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Should aid reward performance? : evidence from a field experiment on health and education in Indonesia (anglais)
The authors report an experiment in 3,000 villages that tested whether incentives improve aid efficacy. Villages received block grants for maternal and child health and education that incorporated relative...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 100190 Date du document: 1 octobre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Olken,Benjamin,Onishi,Junko,Wong,Susan
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Should aid reward performance? : evidence from a field experiment on health and education in Indonesia (anglais)
The authors report an experiment in 3,000 villages that tested whether incentives improve aid efficacy. Villages received block grants for maternal and child health and education that incorporated relative...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 92933 Date du document: 1 octobre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Olken,Benjamin,Onishi,Junko,Wong,Susan
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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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Wage rigidity and disinflation in emerging countries (anglais)
This paper examines the consequences of rapid disinflation for downward wage rigidities in two emerging countries, Brazil and Uruguay. Although wage rigidities are altered by disinflation, in neither of...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 92928 Date du document: 1 janvier 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Messina Granovsky,Julian S.,Sanz De Galdeano,Anna Maria
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The effect of absenteeism and clinic protocol on health outcomes : the case of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Kenya (anglais)
The authors show that pregnant women whose first clinic visit coincides with the nurse’s attendance are 58 percentage points more likely to test for HIV and 46 percent more likely to deliver in a hospital...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 92925 Date du document: 1 avril 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Goldstein,Markus P.,Habyarimana,James Paul,Pop-Eleches,Cristian,Thirumurthy,Harsha,Zivin,Joshua S. Graff
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The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka (anglais)
A field experiment in Sri Lanka provides informal firms incentives to formalize. Information about the registration process and reimbursement of direct costs does not increase registration. Payments equivalent...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 92926 Date du document: 1 avril 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mckenzie,David J.,De Mel,Suresh,Woodruff,Christopher Marshall
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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores (anglais)
Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for household responses to changes in school inputs. Evidence from India and Zambia shows that student...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 92924 Date du document: 1 avril 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Das,Jishnu,Dercon,Stefan,Habyarimana,James Paul,Krishnan,Pramila,Muralidharan,Karthik,Sundararaman,Venkatesh
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Barriers to household risk management : evidence from India (anglais)
Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of nonsystematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 92923 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cole,Shawn Allen,Gine,Xavier,Tobacman,Jeremy,Topalova,Petia B.,Townsend, Robert,Vickery,James
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Enforcement of labor regulation and informality (anglais)
Enforcement of labor regulations in the formal sector may drive workers to informality because they increase the costs of formal labor. But better compliance with mandated benefits makes it attractive...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 92922 Date du document: 1 juillet 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Almeida,Rita Kullberg,Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel
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Cash transfers, behavioral changes, and cognitive development in early childhood : evidence from a randomized experiment (anglais)
Cash transfer programs have become extremely popular in the developing world. A large literature analyzes their effects on schooling, health and nutrition, but relatively little is known about possible...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 92920 Date du document: 1 avril 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Macours,Karen,Schady,Norbert Rudiger,Vakis,Renos