81 to 90 of 198 Results
Jul 13, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Coffman, Lucas C.; Featherstone, Clayton R.; Kessler, Judd B., 2018, "Replication Data for: Can Social Information Affect What Job You Choose and Keep?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JGE7FM, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We show that the provision of social information influences a high-stakes decision and this influence persists over time. In a field experiment involving thousands of admits to Teach For America, those told about the previous year's matriculation rate are more likely to accept a teaching job, complete training, start, and return a second year. To s... |
Jul 13, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Pande, Rohini; Ryan, Nicholas, 2018, "Replication Data for: What Does Reputation Buy? Differentiation in a Market for Third-Party Auditors", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T6HEYF, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We study differences in quality in the market for third-party environmental auditors in Gujarat, India. We find that, despite the low overall quality, auditors are heterogeneous and some perform well. We posit that these high-quality auditors survive by using their good name to insulate select client plants from regulatory scrutiny. We find two pie... |
Jul 11, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Jack, Kelsey, 2018, "Replication Data for: Private Information and the Allocation of Land Use Subsidies in Malawi", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SMU6PT, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Efficient targeting of public programs is difficult when the cost or benefit to potential recipients is private information. This study illustrates the potential of self-selection to improve allocational outcomes in the context of a program that subsidizes tree planting in Malawi. Landholders who received a tree planting contract as a result of bid... |
Jul 10, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Deming, David J.; Yuchtman, Noam; Abulafi, Amira; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F., 2018, "Replication Data for: The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P8ETJ0, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We study employers' perceptions of the value of postsecondary degrees using a field experiment. We randomly assign the sector and selectivity of institutions to fictitious resumes and apply to real vacancy postings for business and health jobs on a large online job board. We find that a business bachelor's degree from a for-profit online institutio... |
Jul 10, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Seira, Enrique; Elizondo, Alan; Laguna-Müggenburg, Eduardo, 2018, "Are Information Disclosures Effective? Evidence from the Credit Card Market", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GRRSC7, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Consumer protection in financial markets in the form of information disclosure is high on government agendas, even though there is little evidence of its effectiveness. We implement a randomized control trial in the credit card market for a large population of indebted cardholders and measure the impact of Truth-in-Lending-Act-type disclosures, de-... |
Jul 10, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Attanasio, Orazio; Barr, Abigail; Cardenas, Juan Camilo; Genicot, Garance; Meghir, Costas, 2018, "Replication Data for: Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/16OAH0, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Using data from an experiment conducted in 70 Colombian communities, we investigate who pools risk with whom when trust is crucial for enforcing risk pooling arrangements. We explore the roles played by risk attitudes and social networks. Both empirically and theoretically, we find that close friends and relatives group assortatively on risk attitu... |
Jul 10, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Attanasio, Orazio; Augsburg, Britta; De Haas, Ralph; Fitzsimons, Emla; Harmgart, Heike, 2018, "Replication Data for: The Impacts of Microfinance: Evidence from Joint-Liability Lending in Mongolia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CMUPCH, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We present evidence from a randomized field experiment in rural Mongolia to assess the poverty impacts of a joint-liability microcredit program targeted at women. We find a positive impact of access to group loans on female entrepreneurship and household food consumption but not on total working hours or income in the household. A simultaneously in... |
Jul 10, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Allcott, Hunt; Rogers, Todd, 2018, "The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Behavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Energy Conservation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OCRH8F, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison-based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to more than six million households nationwide. First, initial reports cause high-frequency "action and backsliding," but these cycles attenuate over time. Second, if reports are discontinued after two years, effec... |
Jul 9, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Gertler, Paul J.; Martinez, Sebastian W.; Rubio-Codina, Marta, 2018, "Replication Data for: Investing Cash Transfers to Raise Long-Term Living Standards", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VSTFIN, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Using data from a randomized experiment, we find that poor rural Mexican households invested part of their cash transfers from the Oportunidades program in productive assets, increasing agricultural income by almost 10 percent after 18 months of benefits. We estimate that for each peso transferred, households consume 74 cents and invest the rest, p... |
Jul 6, 2018 - The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Dataverse
Rockoff, Jonah E.; Staiger, Douglas O.; Kane, Thomas J.; Taylor, Eric S., 2018, "Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/1OFPOU, Harvard Dataverse, V1
We examine how employers learn about worker productivity in a randomized pilot experiment which provided objective estimates of teacher performance to school principals. We test several hypotheses that support a simple Bayesian learning model with imperfect information. First, the correlation between performance estimates and prior beliefs rises wi... |
