Does survey mode matter? Comparing in-person and phone agricultural surveys in India [0.03%]
调查方式有区别吗？比较印度的面对面和电话农业调查
Ellen Anderson,Travis J Lybbert,Ashish Shenoy et al.
Ellen Anderson et al.
Ubiquitous mobile phone ownership makes phone surveying an attractive method of low-cost data collection. We explore differences between in-person and phone survey measures of agricultural production collected for an impact evaluation in In...
Livia Alfonsi,Michal Bauer,Julie Chytilová et al.
Livia Alfonsi et al.
We study how human capital and economic conditions causally affect the choice of religious denomination. We utilize a longitudinal dataset monitoring the religious history of more than 5,000 Kenyans over twenty years, in tandem with a rando...
Measuring time use in rural India: Design and validation of a low-cost survey module [0.03%]
印度农村时间利用的度量：低成本调查模块的设计与验证
Erica Field,Rohini Pande,Natalia Rigol et al.
Erica Field et al.
Time use data facilitate understanding of labor supply, especially for women who often undertake unpaid care and home production. Although assisted diary-based time use surveys are suitable for low-literacy populations, they are costly and ...
Evolution of Risk Aversion over Five Years after a Major Natural Disaster [0.03%]
主要自然灾害五年后的风险厌恶演变过程
Nicholas Ingwersen,Elizabeth Frankenberg,Duncan Thomas
Nicholas Ingwersen
The impact of exposure to a major unanticipated natural disaster on the evolution of survivors' attitudes toward risk is examined, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in combination with ric...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children's learning and wellbeing: Evidence from India [0.03%]
新冠疫情对儿童学习和健康的影响——来自印度的证据
Andrea Guariso,Martina Björkman Nyqvist
Andrea Guariso
We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated school closure on primary school children's learning and mental wellbeing in Assam, India. Using a comprehensive dataset that tracked and repeatedly surveyed approximately 5000 chi...
Sanitation and marriage markets in India: Evidence from the Total Sanitation Campaign [0.03%]
印度的卫生与婚姻市场：关于农村全域净化运动的证据
Britta Augsburg,Juan P Baquero,Sanghmitra Gautam et al.
Britta Augsburg et al.
This paper measures the additional value of sanitation within the marriage arrangement. We use data from the Indian human development household survey (IHDS) to model the marital decisions of men and women in rural India and to estimate the...
Live tutoring calls did not improve learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone [0.03%]
疫情期间塞拉利昂的实时辅导未能改善学习状况
Lee Crawfurd,David K Evans,Susannah Hares et al.
Lee Crawfurd et al.
Education systems regularly face unexpected school closures, whether due to disease outbreaks, natural disasters, or other adverse shocks. In low-income countries where internet access is scarce, distance learning - the most common educatio...
The macroeconomics of pandemics around the world: Lives versus livelihoods revisited [0.03%]
全球大流行的宏观经济：重新审视生命与生计问题
Ingvild Almås,Tessa Bold,Tillmann von Carnap et al.
Ingvild Almås et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic led governments around the world to impose unprecedented restrictions on economic activity. Were these restrictions equally justified in poorer countries with fewer demographic risk factors and less ability to weather ...
Do referrals improve the representation of women in mobile phone surveys? [0.03%]
熟人推荐能否提高移动电话调查中女性受访者的比例？
Steven Glazerman,Karen A Grépin,Valerie Mueller et al.
Steven Glazerman et al.
Random digit dial surveys with mobile phones risk under-representation of women. To address this, we compare the characteristics of women recruited directly with those of women recruited through referrals from male household members. The re...
Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem [0.03%]
社会和金融激励在解决集体行动问题中的作用
M Mehrab Bakhtiar,Raymond P Guiteras,James Levinsohn et al.
M Mehrab Bakhtiar et al.
Addressing public health externalities often requires community-level collective action. Due to social norms, each person's sanitation investment decisions may depend on the decisions of neighbors. We report on a cluster randomized controll...