Measuring Remittances [0.03%]
衡量汇款金额
Giuseppe De Arcangelis,Alexander Fertig,Yuna Liang et al.
Giuseppe De Arcangelis et al.
Remittances received by households from international migrants are of interest in an increasing number of microeconomic analyses. Making use of novel data, we measure misreporting of remittances sent by migrants in the United Arab Emirates ...
Privatization of public goods: Evidence from the sanitation sector in Senegal [0.03%]
公共产品的私有化：来自塞内加尔卫生部门的证据
Joshua W Deutschmann,Jared Gars,Jean-François Houde et al.
Joshua W Deutschmann et al.
Privatization of a public good (the management of sewage treatment centers in Dakar, Senegal) leads to an increase in the productivity of downstream sewage dumping companies and a decrease in downstream prices of the services they provide t...
(Mis)information and anxiety: Evidence from a randomized Covid-19 information campaign [0.03%]
（误）信息与焦虑：来自随机COVID-19信息活动的证据
D Sadish,Achyuta Adhvaryu,Anant Nyshadham
D Sadish
Dispelling misinformation during crises is critical to public health. But information can also induce distress. We ask whether the mode of information delivery affects mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. We randomized Indian migrant...
Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia [0.03%]
通过电话测量消费情况：来自埃塞俄比亚城市地区调查实验的证据
Gashaw T Abate,Alan de Brauw,Kalle Hirvonen et al.
Gashaw T Abate et al.
The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries have made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires collecti...
Cash transfers as a response to COVID-19: Experimental evidence from Kenya [0.03%]
新冠疫情下的现金转移支付：来自肯尼亚的实地实验证据
Wyatt Brooks,Kevin Donovan,Terence R Johnson et al.
Wyatt Brooks et al.
We deliver one month's average profit to a randomly selected group of female microenterprise owners in Dandora, Kenya, arriving just in advance of an exponential growth in COVID-19 cases. Relative to a control group, firms recoup about one ...
Stepping up during a crisis: The unintended effects of a noncontributory pension program during the Covid-19 pandemic [0.03%]
疫情危机中的政策升级：哥伦比亚非缴费型养老金制度的意外效果
Nicolas Bottan,Bridget Hoffmann,Diego A Vera-Cossio
Nicolas Bottan
We use a regression discontinuity design to study the impacts of a noncontributory pension program covering one-third of Bolivian households during the COVID-19 pandemic. Becoming eligible for the program during the crisis increased the pro...
Misperceiving and misreporting input quality: Implications for input use and productivity [0.03%]
误判和误报投入质量：对投入利用和生产效率的影响
Tesfamicheal Wossen,Kibrom A Abay,Tahirou Abdoulaye
Tesfamicheal Wossen
Farmers in developing countries routinely misperceive or misreport input quality for various reasons, which introduces substantial measurement error in farm survey data. In this paper, we motivate and illustrate, both analytically and empir...
Alexander Coutts
Alexander Coutts
Use of lab-in-the-field experiments has steadily increased, given benefits of studying relevant populations and their preferences. In the field, researchers must often relinquish the control of a standard laboratory, raising the specter of ...
Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia [0.03%]
基于地点的农艺信息和技术采纳：来自埃塞俄比亚的一个实地实验
Hailemariam Ayalew,Jordan Chamberlin,Carol Newman
Hailemariam Ayalew
Smallholder farmers in Africa typically only have access to blanket fertilizer recommendations which are defined over very broad areas and may not be optimal for local production conditions. The response to such recommendations has generall...
Slums and pandemics [0.03%]
贫民窟与流行病
Luiz Brotherhood,Tiago Cavalcanti,Daniel Da Mata et al.
Luiz Brotherhood et al.
How do slums shape the economic and health dynamics of pandemics? A difference-in-differences analysis using millions of mobile phones in Brazil shows that residents of overcrowded slums engaged in less social distancing after the outbreak ...