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How to Help the Poor to Save a Bit : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya

Akbaş, Merve - 2016

Partnering with a savings product provider in Kenya, we tested the extent to which behavioral interventions and … participants were asked to keep track of their weekly deposits (3) a match of weekly savings: The match was either 10% or 20% up to …

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Improving Access to Savings Through Mobile Money : Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers

Batista, Catia - 2019

access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile … friends.We work with two cross-randomized interventions. The first treatment gave access to a remunerated mobile savings … primary farmer counterparts. We find that the remunerated mobile savings account raised mobile savings, but only while …

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An Injury to One is an Injury to All : Terrorism's Spillover Effects on Bilateral Trade

Doucouliagos, Hristos - 2017

In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring nations. Using a sample of more than 160 countries from 1976 to 2014, we report robust evidence that terrorist attacks in a nation's contiguous neighbors significantly reduce...

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Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs

Engl, Florian - 2017

Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We use a laboratory experiment to study how the presence and nature of an institution that enforces prosocial behavior...

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Free-Riding and Knowledge Spillovers in Teams : The Role of Social Ties

De Paola, Maria - 2016

We investigate whether and how social ties affect performance in teams by implementing a field experiment in which a sample of undergraduate students are randomly assigned to either teams composed by friends or teams composed by individuals not linked by friendship relationships. Students...

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Direct, Spillover and Welfare Effects of Regional Firm Subsidies

Siegloch, Sebastian; Wehrhöfer, Nils; Etzel, Tobias - 2021

We analyze the effects of a large place-based policy, subsidizing up to 50% of investment costs of manufacturing firms in East Germany after reunification. We show that a 1-percentage-point decrease in the subsidy rate leads to a 1% decrease in manufacturing employment. We document important...

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On the Role of Sectoral and National Components in the Wage Bargaining Process

Dreger, Christian - 2010

This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...

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Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income

Giertz, Seth H. - 2012

This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under a variety of migration elasticity assumptions. Key outputs from the simulation include the impact of tax-induced migration on state revenues, excess burden, and fiscal...

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Three New Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous

Millimet, Daniel L. - 2014

The validity of existing empirical tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) is constantly under scrutiny due to two shortcomings. First, the issues of unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error in environmental regulation are typically ignored due to the lack of a credible, traditional...

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Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-Members' Well-Being

Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2014

The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade unions and goes on to conduct empirical analyses using linked employer-employee data and alternative...

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