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Dupas, Pascaline; Robinson, Jonathan, 2015, "Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EXL9DX, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:8kIR0e7mWtyZArEnajWl5w== [fileUNF]
Does limited access to formal savings services impede business growth in poor countries? To shed light on this question, we randomized access to noninterest-bearing bank accounts among two types of self-employed individuals in rural Kenya: market vendors (who are mostly women) and men working as bicycle taxi drivers. Despite large withdrawal fees,... |
Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Hanna, Rema, 2015, "Replication Data for: Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/D2WXBF, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Laboratory studies suggest that improved cooking stoves can reduce indoor air pollution, improve health, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries. We provide evidence, from a large-scale randomized trial in India, on the benefits of a common, laboratory-validated stove with a four-year follow-up. While smoke inhalation initiall... |
Chong, Alberto; Karlan, Dean; Shapiro, Jeremy; Zinman, Jonathan, 2015, "(Ineffective) Messages to Encourage Recycling: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Peru", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Q8PTLL, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:oe0CdjIGMp8QId/3qPauIg== [fileUNF]
There is growing interest in using messaging to drive prosocial behaviors, which contribute to investment in public goods. The authors worked with a leading nongovernmental organization in Peru to randomize nine different prorecycling messages that were crafted on the basis of best practices, prior evidence, and theories of behavioral change. Diffe... |
Bertrand, Marianne; Karlan, Dean; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Shafir, Eldar; Zinman, Jonathan, 2015, "What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/II4HDS, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:vNtyx78lIHib0bKzz9fnLg== [fileUNF]
Firms spend billions of dollars developing advertising content, yet there is little field evidence on how much or how it affects demand. We analyze a direct mail field experiment in South Africa implemented by a consumer lender that randomized advertising content, loan price, and loan offer deadlines simultaneously. We find that advertising content... |
Apr 22, 2015 - Innovations for Poverty Action Dataverse
Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq, 2014, "Underinvestment in a Profitable Technology: the Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28277, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:5:xK+WQQBqciK/+mJ4t8rxHA== [fileUNF]
This paper presents the results of a financial intervention in northwestern Bangladesh intended to promote out-migration to nearby urban areas during the lean season before harvest in order to mitigate famine (monga). This is in order to understand whether this is a viable mitigation strategy, and if so why it has not been employed more often. We r... |
Apr 8, 2015 - ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
Fogel, Robert W.; Ferrie, Joseph; Costa, Dora; Karlan, Dean S., 2000, "United States Census of Mortality: 1850, 1860, and 1870", https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02526.V1, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
This data collection is a portion of the historical data collected by the project, "Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease, and Death," which is collecting military, medical, and socioeconomic data on a sample of white males mustered into the Union Army during the Civil War. During 1850, 1860, and 1870, mortality information was gathered at...This dataset is harvested from our partners at the ICPSR at the University of Michigan. Clicking the link will take you directly to the archival source of the data. |
Feb 2, 2015 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Benhassine, Najy; Devoto, Florencia; Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Pouliquen, Victor, 2015, "Turning a Shove into A Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/29014, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have been shown to increase human capital investments, but their standard features make them expensive. We use a large randomized experiment in Morocco to estimate an alternative government-run program, a "labeled cash transfer" (LCT): a small cash transfer made to fathers of school-aged children in poor rural comm... |
Karlan, Dean; Kutsoati, Ed; McMillan, Margaret; Udry, Christopher, 2014, "Crop Price Indemnified Loans for Farmers: A Pilot Experiment in Rural Ghana", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27851, Harvard Dataverse, V3
This paper presents the results of a financial intervention using loans, of which 50% is forgiven given a drop in crop prices below a certain threshold, in Ghana intended to investigate 1) the role of crop-price risk in reducing demand for credit among farmers and 2) how risk mitigation changes farmers' investment decisions. After baseline survey w... |
Jan 13, 2015 - Innovations for Poverty Action Dataverse
Giné, Xavier; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan, 2014, "Put Your Money Where your Butt Is: A Commitment Contract for Smoking Cessation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28273, Harvard Dataverse, V2
This paper presents the results of a financial intervention in the form of savings accounts, of which the total funds will be returned if the holder of the account stops smoking, verified through urine samples. This is in order to test whether this type of financial incentive is a viable option towards the reduction of addictive behaviors. Three tr... |
Jan 6, 2015
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