Correcting Misperceptions about Support for Social Distancing to Combat COVID-19 [0.03%]
纠正人们对支持社交距离来对抗COVID-19的误解
James Allen th,Arlete Mahumane,James Riddell th et al.
James Allen th et al.
Can informing people of high community support for social distancing encourage them to do more of it? We randomly assigned a treatment correcting individuals' underestimates of community support for social distancing. In theory, informing p...
Facilitating Worker Mobility: A Randomized Information Intervention among Migrant Workers in Singapore [0.03%]
促进劳动力流动性——新加坡外来务工人员的信息干预随机实验
Slesh A Shrestha,Dean Yang
Slesh A Shrestha
International migrant workers often face high job search costs and imperfect information on their legal rights to change employers. Such information constraints can undermine the economic benefits from international migration by tying migra...
Financial Education and Financial Access for Transnational Households: Field Experimental Evidence from the Philippines [0.03%]
基于菲律宾的实地实验证据：面向跨国家庭的金融教育与金融服务
Paolo Abarcar,Rashmi Barua,Dean Yang
Paolo Abarcar
We implemented a randomized controlled trial among transnational households in the Philippines estimating impacts on financial behaviors of a financial education treatment, a financial access treatment, and the combination of the two. We te...
The Puzzle of Open Defecation in Rural India: Evidence from a Novel Measure of Caste Attitudes in a Nationally Representative Survey [0.03%]
印度农村露天排便之谜：来自全国代表性调查中一种新的种姓态度衡量标准的证据
Dean Spears,Amit Thorat
Dean Spears
Can Positive Psychology Improve Psychological Well-Being and Economic Decision-Making? Experimental Evidence from Kenya [0.03%]
积极心理学能否改善心理幸福感和经济决策？来自肯尼亚的实验证据
Victoria Baranov,Johannes Haushofer,Chaning Jang
Victoria Baranov
Do Schools Reinforce or Reduce Learning Gaps between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students? Evidence from Vietnam and Peru [0.03%]
学校是加剧还是减少了发达国家和发展中国家学生之间的学习差距？来自越南和秘鲁的证据
Paul Glewwe,Sofya Krutikova,Caine Rolleston
Paul Glewwe
This paper examines - for two developing countries, Vietnam and Peru - whether disadvantaged children learn less than advantaged children when both types of children are enrolled in the same school. This is done by estimating education prod...
Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Inequality: Parental Resources and Schooling Attainment and Children's Human Capital in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam [0.03%]
贫困与不平等的代际传递：父母资源、就学机会以及埃塞俄比亚、印度、秘鲁和越南的儿童人力资本状况
Jere R Behrman,Whitney Schott,Subha Mani et al.
Jere R Behrman et al.
Academic and policy literatures on intergenerational transmissions of poverty and inequality suggest that improving schooling attainment and income for parents in poor households will lessen poverty and inequality in their children's genera...
Health outcomes for children born to teen mothers in Cape Town, South Africa [0.03%]
南非开普敦青少年母亲所生子女的健康状况
Nicola Branson,Cally Ardington,Murray Leibbrandt
Nicola Branson
This paper analyzes whether children born to teen mothers in Cape Town, South Africa are disadvantaged in terms of their health outcomes because their mother is a teen. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of the Cape Area Panel Study, we ass...
Early childbearing, human capital attainment and mortality risk: Evidence from a longitudinal demographic surveillance area in rural-KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa [0.03%]
早期生育，人力资本取得以及死亡率风险：来自南非夸祖鲁-纳塔尔农村地区纵向人口监测区的证据
Cally Ardington,Alicia Menendez,Tinofa Mutevedzi
Cally Ardington
Using a rich longitudinal dataset, we examine the relationship between teen fertility and both subsequent educational outcomes and HIV related mortality risk in rural South Africa. Human capital deficits among teen mothers are large and sig...
Luis Rubalcava,Graciela Teruel,Duncan Thomas
Luis Rubalcava
The literature suggests men and women may have different preferences. This paper exploits a social experiment in which women in treatment households were given a large public cash transfer (PROGRESA). In an effort to disentangle the effect ...