Women's access to school, educational attainment, and fertility: Evidence from Jordan✩ [0.03%]
妇女的受教育机会、在校年限与生育率——来自约旦的经验数据
Hongliang Zhang,Ragui Assaad
Hongliang Zhang
In socially conservative Muslim societies, the absence of a sex-appropriate school in one's community has historically been a major constraint to girls' schooling. We use the expansion of access to girls' or mixed schools in Jordan to inves...
Loose knots: Strong versus weak commitments to save for education in Uganda [0.03%]
松散的结：乌干达教育储蓄强承诺与弱承诺比较
Dean Karlan,Leigh L Linden
Dean Karlan
Commitment devices offer an opportunity to restrict future choices. However, strict commitments may deter participation. Using a school-based commitment savings program for children to save for educational expenses in Uganda, we compare an ...
Daniel LaFave,Evan Peet,Duncan Thomas
Daniel LaFave
The agricultural household model, in which decisions about production and consumption are made simultaneously, lies at the heart of many models of development. Empirically modelling these simultaneous choices is not straightforward. The vas...
How does progressivity impact tax morale? Experimental evidence across developing countries [0.03%]
进步性如何影响纳税人的道德？发展中经济体的实证证据
Christopher Hoy
Christopher Hoy
This paper examines how the progressivity of taxes and government transfers impacts tax morale through a randomized survey experiment with over 30,000 respondents across eight developing countries. Respondents increased (decreased) their ta...
Tushi Baul,Dean Karlan,Kentaro Toyama et al.
Tushi Baul et al.
Providing agricultural advice at scale poses operational challenges. Technology may help if repeating content reinforces learning for recipients and thus improves adoption, but risks reducing efficacy given limited customization and human i...
The dirty business of eliminating open defecation: The effect of village sanitation on child height from field experiments in four countries [0.03%]
消除露天排便的污活事业——来自四国实地试验的数据表明村庄卫生状况对儿童身高的影响
Lisa Cameron,Paul Gertler,Manisha Shah et al.
Lisa Cameron et al.
We examine the impacts of a sanitation program designed to eliminate open defecation in at-scale randomized field experiments in four countries: India, Indonesia, Mali, and Tanzania. The programs - all variants of the widely-used Community-...
KNOWLEDGE, STIGMA, AND HIV TESTING: AN ANALYSIS OF A WIDESPREAD HIV/AIDS PROGRAM [0.03%]
关于知识、耻辱和艾滋病检测的分析：一项广泛的艾滋病项目的研究
Dean Yang,James Allen th,Arlete Mahumane et al.
Dean Yang et al.
Using randomized methodologies, we study a common community HIV/AIDS program that seeks to promote HIV testing by improving knowledge and reducing stigmatizing attitudes. Contrary to expectations, the program has a substantial negative effe...
Britta Augsburg,Andrew Foster,Terence Johnson et al.
Britta Augsburg et al.
Sanitation is a public good, the responsibility for which is shared between households and the government. Interventions in the sector, therefore, must be designed with an eye toward reducing crowd out. We discuss the new findings on sanita...
Using technology to prevent fraud in high stakes national school examinations: Evidence from Indonesia [0.03%]
利用技术预防国家级学校考试中的作弊行为——来自印度尼西亚的证据
Emilie Berkhout,Menno Pradhan,Rahmawati et al.
Emilie Berkhout et al.
Cheating reduces the signaling value of examinations. It also shifts the focus of teachers and students away from learning. Combating widespread cheating is difficult as students, teachers, and bureaucrats all benefit from high reported gra...
Estimating seed demand in the presence of market frictions: Evidence from an auction experiment in Nigeria [0.03%]
市场摩擦下的种子需求估算：尼日利亚拍卖实验的证据
Tesfamicheal Wossen,David J Spielman,Arega D Alene et al.
Tesfamicheal Wossen et al.
This paper measures the effect of seed quality misperceptions on bidding behavior and demand for high-quality seed using an information-provision experiment within an incentive-compatible Vickery Second Price (SPA) auction mechanism that mi...