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What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world?

McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of these programs in developing countries. We undertake a critical review of these studies with the...

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital

Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital...

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Selective Trials: A Principal-Agent Approach to Randomized Controlled Experiments

Chassang, Sylvain; Padró i Miquel, Gerard; Snowberg, Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We study the design of randomized controlled experiments in environments where outcomes are significantly affected by unobserved effort decisions taken by the subjects (agents). While standard randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are internally consistent, the unobservability of effort provision...

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(Measured) Profit is Not Welfare: Evidence from an Experiment on Bundling Microcredit and Insurance

Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Hornbeck, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We investigate the puzzle of microfinance: that loans generate large measured returns for businesses, yet loan take-up is low and the businesses often close. We analyze a randomized trial that bundled microfinance loans with a cheap health insurance policy. Requiring clients to purchase...

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Dynamics of health insurance ownership in Vietnam, 2004 – 06

Nguyen, Trong-Ha; Leung, Suiwah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

health insurance determinants show significant adverse selection in the current health insurance system where individuals … suggest that the current health insurance system entails significant adverse selection where people with worse health are more … maintain financial sustainability of the health insurance system are drawn. …

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Separating Selection and Incentive Effects in Health Insurance

Gardiol, Lucien; Geoffard, Pierre-Yves; Grandchamp, Chantal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

deductible. The empirical analysis shows strong and robust evidence of selection effects. Nevertheless, once selection effects … selection, and 25 % to incentive effects. …

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Agency in Health-Care: Are Medical Care-Givers Perfect Agents?

Neuman, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

It has been suggested in the literature that a source of incompleteness in the agency relationship between the doctor and the patient is that the provider may respond to an incomplete or biased perception of the patient’s interests. However, this has not been shown empirically. This paper is...

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The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Health of their Children

Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Walker, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious correlation rather than some causal mechanism. A...

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Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John; Shields, Michael - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides new evidence on the roles of socio-economic...

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The Health Status of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians

Booth, Alison; Carroll, Nick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

We use unique survey data to examine the determinants of self-assessed health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. We explore the degree to which differences in health are due to differences in socio-economic factors, and examine the sensitivity of our results to the inclusion of...

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