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NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions
Usmani, Faraz; Jeuland, Marc; Pattanayak, Subhrendu - 2021
Interventions led by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are often more effective than comparable efforts by other actors, yet relatively little is known about how implementer identity drives final outcomes. Combining a stratified field experiment in India with a triple-differences estimation...
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Formalizing employment in Africa's small firms: Experimental evidence from Côte D'Ivoire
Fietz, Katharina; Lakemann, Tabea; Beber, Bernd; Priebe, Jan - 2025
with a focus on employment formalization in Côte d'Ivoire. Using a randomized controlled trial with 448 MSMEs and a unique … employer-employee dataset, we find that the intervention led to employment formalization, driven by greater reported minimum … driven by selective formalization and increased awareness of regulation. The intervention's financial implications were …
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Do electricity prices matter? Plant-level evidence from German manufacturing
Gerster, Andreas - 2017
German manufacturing plants increase electricity use substantially and substitute it for fossil fuels, while we do not find …
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Does Large Scale Infrastructure Investment Alleviate Poverty? Impacts of Rwanda's Electricity Access Roll-Out Program
Lenz, Luciane; Munyehirwe, Anicet; Peters, Jörg; … - 2015
The United Nations' objective to provide electricity to the 1.3 billion people without access in developing countries comes at high costs. Little evidence exists on socioeconomic impacts of electrification. This paper rigorously investigates effects of a large grid extension program in Rwanda on...
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The effectiveness of interventions to reduce informality in low- and middle income countries
Jessen, Jonas; Kluve, Jochen - 2019
interventions have therefore been implemented in many countries with the objective to increase the formalization of firms and …Labor markets in low- and middle income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of … security contributions, and interventions that enforce labor or business formalization. In this paper, we compile a database of …
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Experimental evidence on the long term impacts of a youth training program
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Kluve, Jochen; Ripani, Laura; Shady, … - 2015
unemployment in countries with high informality and no unemployment insurance. Looking at the local labor market context, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307515
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Preferences over bank and family loans in rural Rwanda
Peters, Jörg; Schoofs, Annekathrin; Sievert, Maximiliane - 2015
We study borrowers' preferences over bank and family loans based on field work undertaken in rural Rwanda. We randomly assigned willingness-to-pay questions for a hypothetical loan offer either by a bank or by a family member to a sample of 480 households. Informal family loans are typically...
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Active labour market programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evicence from a meta analysis
Escudero, Verónica; Kluve, Jochen; López Mourelo, Elva; … - 2017
We present a systematic collection and assessment of impact evaluations of active labour market programmes (ALMP) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The paper delineates the strategy to compile a novel meta database and provides a narrative review of 51 studies. Based on these studies,...
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Migration Magnet: The Role of Work Experience in Rural-Urban Wage Differentials in Mexico
Michaelsen, Maren M.; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2011
This study estimates separate selectivity bias corrected wage equations for formal and informal workers in rural and urban Mexico using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS). We control for different potential selection patterns using Probit and Multinominal logit models in the first...
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Migration Magnet: The Role of Work Experience in Rural-Urban Wage Diff erentials in Mexico
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Michaelsen, Maren M. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
This study estimates separate selectivity bias corrected wage equations for formal and informal workers in rural and urban Mexico using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS). We control for diff erent potential selection patterns using Probit and Multinominal logit models in the fi...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246535