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...
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...