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Aug 12, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Drexler, Alejandro; Fischer, Greg; Schoar, Antoinette, 2018, "Replication Data for: Keeping It Simple: Financial Literacy and Rules of Thumb", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QWKNBI, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Micro-entrepreneurs often lack the financial literacy required to make important financial decisions. We conducted a randomized evaluation with a bank in the Dominican Republic to compare the impact of two distinct programs: standard accounting training versus a simplified, rule-of-thumb training that taught basic financial heuristics. The rule-of-... |
Beaman, Lori; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther; Pande, Rohini; Topalova, Petia, 2012, "Powerful women and aspirations in India", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/O3UKFO, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:5:3R+IJ7hWkUcJ6SzNc3s2eA== [fileUNF]
This project collected data in 2006 and 2007 in one district in West Bengal, Birbhum, a rural and poor district located about 200 km from Kolkata, where there are large gender gaps in education and in labor market opportunities. Between June 2006 and November 2007 we surveyed 495 villages spread across the 165 GPs in Birbhum district in West Bengal... |
Aug 6, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Ashraf, Nava; Berry, James; Shapiro, Jesse M., 2018, "Replication Data for: Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7VB98T, Harvard Dataverse, V1
The controversy over how much to charge for health products in the developing world rests, in part, on whether higher prices can increase use, either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use psychologically through a sunk-cost effect. We develop a methodology for separating these two effects. We i... |
Aug 6, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Ashraf, Nava, 2018, "Replication Data for: Spousal Control and Intra-household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XRGRK3, Harvard Dataverse, V1
I elicit causal effects of spousal observability and communication on financial choices of married individuals in the Philippines. When choices are private, men put money into their personal accounts. When choices are observable, men commit money to consumption for their own benefit. When required to communicate, men put money into their wives' acc... |
Aug 6, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Ashraf, Nava; Field, Erica; Lee, Jean, 2018, "Replication Data for: Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6MSJHK, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We posit that household decision-making over fertility is characterized by moral hazard since most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether women were given access to contraceptives alone or with their husbands, we find that women given access with their husbands were 19 percent le... |
Jul 31, 2018
Fink, Günther; Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Osei, Robert, 2018, "Communications for Development", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CQRNC7, Harvard Dataverse, V2
In 2012, Ghana Health Services (GHS), with funding from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), launched a Communication for Development (C4D) program in twelve districts of the four poorest regions of Ghana. The main objective of this program was to encourage families to adopt and consistently practice five health behaviors which are critical... |
Jul 31, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Finkelstein, Amy; Baicker, Katherine; Taubman, Sarah; Wright, Bill; Bernstein, Mira; Gruber, Jonathan; Allen, Heidi; Newhouse, Joseph P; Schneider, Eric; Zaslavsky, Alan, 2018, "Replication Data for: Oregon Health Insurance Experiment", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SJG1ED, Harvard Dataverse, V1
In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery to be given the chance to apply for Medicaid. This lottery provides an opportunity to gauge the effects of expanding access to public health insurance on the health care use, financial strain, and health of low-income adults using a randomized controlled design. This... |
Jul 30, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Gerber, Alan S.; Karlan, Dean; Bergan, Daniel, 2018, "Replication Data for: Does the Media Matter? A Field Experiment Measuring the Effect of Newspapers on Voting Behavior and Political Opinions", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/67UGGG, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We conducted a field experiment to measure the effect of exposure to newspapers on political behavior and opinion. Before the 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election, we randomly assigned individuals to a Washington Post free subscription treatment, a Washington Times free subscription treatment, or a control treatment. We find no effect of either pap... |
Jul 27, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Chetty, Raj; Saez, Emmanuel, 2018, "Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/40AKNU, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We conducted a randomized experiment with 43,000 EITC recipients at H&R Block. Tax preparers gave simple, personalized information about the EITC schedule to half of their clients. We find no significant effects of information provision on earnings in the subsequent year in the full sample. Further exploration uncovers evidence of heterogeneous tre... |
Jul 18, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Oreopoulos, Philip, 2018, "Replication Data for: Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? A Field Experiment with Thirteen Thousand Resumes", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WXMJCN, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Thousands of randomly manipulated resumes were sent in response to online job postings in Toronto to investigate why immigrants, allowed in based on skill, struggle in the labor market. The study finds substantial discrimination across a variety of occupations towards applicants with foreign experience or those with Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, and... |
