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Galiani, Sebastian - 2016

In the last years, several countries implemented policy interventions to entitle urban squatters, encouraged by the results of studies showing large welfare gains from entitlement. We study a natural experiment in the allocation of land titles to very poor families in a suburban area of Buenos...

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Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830 : A New Source for British History

Bogart, Dan - 2008

A new database demonstrates that between 1600 and 1830, Parliament passed thousands of acts restructuring rights to real and equitable estates. These estate acts enabled individuals and families to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange, and improve land previously bound by landholding and inheritance...

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The Cost of Property Rights : Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918

Maurer, Noel - 2008

We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th century: the redistribution of large estates to their tenants, the creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During...

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How Does Health Promotion Work? Evidence From The Dirty Business of Eliminating Open Defecation

Gertler, Paul - 2015

-scale randomized field experiments in four countries: India, Indonesia, Mali, and Tanzania. Health promotion works through a number of …

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Land Reform and Sex Selection in China

Almond, Douglas - 2013

Following the death of Mao in 1976, agrarian decision-making shifted from the collective to individual households, unleashing rapid growth in farm output and unprecedented reductions in poverty. In new data on reform timing in 914 counties, we find an immediate trend break in the fraction of...

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The Importance of Being Marginal : Gender Differences in Generosity

DellaVigna, Stefano - 2013

Do men and women have different social preferences? Previous findings are contradictory. We provide a potential explanation using evidence from a field experiment. In a door-to-door solicitation, men and women are equally generous, but women become less generous when it becomes easy to avoid the...

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Do Women Avoid Salary Negotiations? Evidence from a Large Scale Natural Field Experiment

Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2012

One explanation advanced for the persistent gender pay differences in labor markets is that women avoid salary … environments where the 'rules of wage determination' are ambiguous. This leads to the gender gap being much more pronounced in jobs …

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Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes : A Field Experiment on Discrimination

Castillo, Marco - 2012

We examine gender differences in bargaining outcomes in a highly competitive and commonly used market: the taxi market … eliminates gender differences and the response is shown only to be consistent with statistical discrimination. Our study secures … is the sole source of differential gender outcomes …

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Toward an Understanding of Why People Discriminate : Evidence from a Series of Natural Field Experiments

Gneezy, Uri - 2012

examining discrimination based on gender, age, sexual orientation, race, and disability. Using data from more than 3000 …

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The Gender Gap in Tech & Competitive Work Environments? Field Experimental Evidence from an Internet-of-Things Product Development Platform

Boudreau, Kevin - 2020

Many technology companies struggle to fill all their positions and to achieve gender parity in their ranks. One … explanation for gender disparities is the possibility that men and women differ in their willingness to work under competitive …

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