Information and behavioral responses during a pandemic: Evidence from delays in Covid-19 death reports [0.03%]
大流行期间的信息与行为反应：以Covid-19死亡报告延迟为例
Emilio Gutierrez,Adrian Rubli,Tiago Tavares
Emilio Gutierrez
Providing information is important for managing epidemics, but issues with data accuracy may hinder its effectiveness. Focusing on Covid-19 in Mexico, we ask whether delays in death reports affect individuals' beliefs and behavior. Exploiti...
Can youth empowerment programs reduce violence against girls during the COVID-19 pandemic? [0.03%]
青年赋权项目能在COVID-19疫情期间减少针对女孩的暴力行为吗？
Selim Gulesci,Manuela Puente-Beccar,Diego Ubfal
Selim Gulesci
This paper shows that a youth empowerment program in Bolivia reduced the reported prevalence of violence against girls during the COVID-19 lockdown. The program offered training in soft skills and technical skills, sexual education, mentori...
Do job fairs matter? Experimental evidence on the impact of job-fair attendance [0.03%]
招聘会重要吗？关于参加招聘会影响的实验证据
Emily A Beam
Emily A Beam
I estimate the causal impact of attending a job fair on employment outcomes and labor market perceptions, using a randomized encouragement design to induce individuals in the rural Philippines to attend a nearby job fair for domestic and ov...
Texts don't nudge: An adaptive trial to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in India [0.03%]
文本无提示作用：一项阻止印度新冠疫情传播的适应性试验
Girija Bahety,Sebastian Bauhoff,Dev Patel et al.
Girija Bahety et al.
We conduct an adaptive randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a SMS-based information campaign on the adoption of social distancing and handwashing in rural Bihar, India, six months into the COVID-19 pandemic. We test 10 arms...
Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin [0.03%]
契约式订单农业与农村转型：贝宁实地试验的证据
Aminou Arouna,Jeffrey D Michler,Jourdain C Lokossou
Aminou Arouna
Contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. We present resu...
Stelios Michalopoulos,Alireza Naghavi,Giovanni Prarolo
Stelios Michalopoulos
This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine. We build a model where an unequal distribution of land quality in presence of trade opportunities conferred differential gains from tr...
Income Timing and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment [0.03%]
基于随机实地实验的收入时序与流动性约束证据研究
Lasse Brune,Jason T Kerwin
Lasse Brune
People in developing countries sometimes desire deferred income streams, which replace more-frequent income flows with a single, later lump sum. We study the effects of short-term wage deferral using a randomized experiment with participant...
Sveta Milusheva
Sveta Milusheva
While human mobility has important benefits for economic growth, it can generate negative externalities. This paper studies the effect of mobility on the spread of disease in a low-incidence setting when people do not internalize their risk...
Shanthi Manian
Shanthi Manian
Risky health behaviors contribute to a large share of disease in developing countries, yet few papers have studied the effect of conflict on these behaviors. The canonical health capital model predicts that conflict should increase risky he...
Exposure to open defecation can account for the Indian enigma of child height [0.03%]
开放排泄暴露可以解释印度儿童身高之谜
Dean Spears
Dean Spears
Physical height is an important measure of human capital. However, differences in average height across developing countries are poorly explained by economic differences. Children in India are shorter than poorer children in Africa, a widel...