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This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health … increases in household food consumption, particularly of protein-rich foods by children. The increased household consumption is …
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India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of many poorer African countries. In this paper, we analyze data for over 174,000 Indian and Sub-Saharan African children to show that Indian firstborns are taller than African firstborns; the Indian height...
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This paper studies the role played by caste, education and other social and economic attributes in arranged marriages among middle-class Indians. We use a unique data set on individuals who placed matrimonial advertisements in a major newspaper, the responses they received, how they ranked them,...
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We study the demand for household water connections in urban Morocco, and the effect of such connections on household … subset was offered a simplified procedure to purchase a household connection on credit (at a zero percent interest rate … located fairly close to their homes), household connections did not lead to any improvement in the quality of the water …
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data with representative behavioural data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to … elicit people’s trust correlate well with behaviourally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly …
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candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …
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This paper is an empirical study of the motives for charitable donations, based on a unique data set of the English National Opera. Merging all their box office and fundraising data, our data set not only contains individuals’ donations, but also their opera attendance and all the fringe...
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relates it to consumption at both the aggregate and cohort levels. The Household External Finance (HEF) index is based on the …
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This paper documents a strong positive relationship between individual reported trust levels (obtained from the US General Social Survey) and the competitiveness of the sector in which an individual works (obtained from the US census of firms). This correlation is robust to the inclusion of all...
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We ask how much the advent of the `one child policy' can explain the sharp rise in China's household saving rate. In a … its quantitative relevance in accounting for the rise in the household saving rate since the inception of the policy in …
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