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Field and Natural Experiments in Migration (英语)
Many research and policy questions surrounding migration are causal questions. What causes people to migrate? What are the consequences of migration for the migrants, their families, and their communities?...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS10250 文件日期: 2022年12月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Mckenzie,David J.,Yang,Dean
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Aspirations and Financial Decisions : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines (英语)
A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations. In theory, raising aspirations could have positive effects by inducing higher effort...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS9586 文件日期: 2021年3月17日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Mckenzie,David J.,Mohpal,Aakash,Yang,Dean
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Savings defaults and payment delays for cash transfers: field experimental evidence from Malawi (英语)
Financial products and transfer schemes are often designed to help individuals improve welfare by following through on intertemporal plans. This paper implements an artefactual field experiment in Malawi...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS7807 文件日期: 2016年8月31日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Brune,Lasse Florian,Gine,Xavier,Goldberg,Jessica Ann,Yang,Dean
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The World Bank research observer 30 (2) (英语)
The World Bank Research Observer is intended for anyone who has a professional interest in development. Observer articles are written to be accessible to nonspecialist readers; contributors examine key...
文件类型: 出版 报告号: 120315 文件日期: 2015年8月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Mckenzie,David J.,Yang,Dean,Boyden,Jo,Dercon,Stefan,Singh,Abhijeet,Miller,Margaret J.,Reichelstein,Julia Elaine,Salas,Christian,Zia,Bilal Husnain,Bhargava,Alok,Quatraro,Francesco,Vivarelli,Marco
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Evidence on policies to increase the development impacts of international migration (英语)
International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in their incomes and offers a number of other positive benefits to the sending communities...
文件类型: 日志文章 报告号: 120312 文件日期: 2015年8月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Mckenzie,David J.,Yang,Dean
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Evidence on policies to increase the development impacts of international migration (英语)
International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in their incomes, and offers a large number of other positive benefits to the sending...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS7057 文件日期: 2014年10月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Mckenzie,David J.,Yang,Dean
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Will migrants remit more if they can channel payments directly for education? lab-in-the-field and proof of concept trial results (英语)
This note summarizes a proof of concept trial of a new product designed to allow migrants to send remittances for educational purposes. Migrant remittances are one of the largest international financial...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 90901 文件日期: 2014年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: De Arcangelis, Giuseppe,Joxhe, Majlinda,Mckenzie,David J.,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.,Yang,Dean
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Directing remittances to education with soft and hard commitments : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment and new product take-up among Filipino migrants in Rome (英语)
This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational purposes using different forms of commitment. Variants of a dictator game in a lab-in-the-field...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS6896 文件日期: 2014年5月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: De Arcangelis, Giuseppe,Joxhe, Majlinda,Mckenzie,David J.,Tiongson,Erwin H. R.,Yang,Dean
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Distortions in the international migrant labor market : evidence from Filipino migration and wage responses to destination country economic shocks (英语)
The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to gross domestic product (GDP) shocks in destination countries...
文件类型: 日志文章 报告号: 92929 文件日期: 2014年4月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Mckenzie,David J.,Theoharides, Caroline,Yang,Dean
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Unilateral facilitation does not raise international labor migration from the Philippines (英语)
Significant income gains from migrating from poorer to richer countries have motivated unilateral (source-country) policies facilitating labor emigration. However, their effectiveness is unknown. The authors...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS6689 文件日期: 2013年11月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Beam,Emily A.,Mckenzie,David J.,Yang,Dean
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Are rural road investments alone sufficient to generate transport flows? Lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Malawi and policy implications (英语)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Are rural road investments alone sufficient to generate transport flows? Lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Malawi...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 81200 文件日期: 2013年8月14日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Raballand,Gael J. R. F.,Thornton,Rebecca Lynn,Yang,Dean,Goldberg,Jessica Ann,Keleher,Niall,Muller, Annika
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Insurance, credit, and technology adoption : field experimental evidence from Malawi. (英语)
This brief summarizes the insurance, credit, and technology adoption: field experimental evidence from Malawi. The farmers were offered loans for the November 2006 planting season. Does production risk...
文件类型: 简介 报告号: 81382 文件日期: 2013年8月14日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Gine,Xavier,Yang,Dean
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Revising commitments : field evidence on the adjustment of prior choices (英语)
The very poor in developing countries often make intertemporal choices that seem at odds with their individual self-interest. There are many possible reasons why. This paper investigates several of these...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS6093 文件日期: 2012年6月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Gine,Xavier,Goldberg,Jessica Ann,Silverman,Daniel,Yang,Dean
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Distortions in the international migrant labor market :evidence from Filipino migration and wage responses to destination country economic shocks (英语)
The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to gross domestic product shocks in destination countries...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS6041 文件日期: 2012年4月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Mckenzie,David J.,Theoharides, Caroline,Yang,Dean
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Commitments to save : a field experiment in rural Malawi (英语)
This paper reports the results of a field experiment that randomly assigned smallholder cash crop farmers formal savings accounts. In collaboration with a microfinance institution in Malawi, the authors...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS5748 文件日期: 2011年8月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Brune,Lasse Florian,Gine,Xavier,Goldberg,Jessica Ann,Yang,Dean
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Are rural road investments alone sufficient to generate transport flows ? lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Malawi and policy implications (英语)
This paper draws lessons from an original randomized experiment in Malawi. In order to understand why roads in relatively good condition in rural areas may not be used by buses, a minibus service was subsidized...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS5535 文件日期: 2011年1月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Muller, Annika,Goldberg,Jessica Ann,Keleher,Niall,Raballand,Gael J. R. F.,Thornton,Rebecca Lynn,Yang,Dean
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Identification strategy : a field experiment on dynamic incentives in rural credit markets (英语)
How do borrowers respond to improvements in a lender's ability to punish defaulters? This paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment in rural Malawi that examines the impact of fingerprinting...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS5438 文件日期: 2010年10月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Gine,Xavier,Goldberg,Jessica Ann,Yang,Dean
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Experimental approaches in migration studies (英语)
The decision of whether or not to migrate has far-reaching consequences for the lives of individuals and their families. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS5395 文件日期: 2010年8月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Mckenzie,David J.,Yang,Dean
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Insurance, credit, and technology adoption : field experimental evidence from Malawi (英语)
The adoption of new agricultural technologies may be discouraged because of their inherent riskiness. This study implemented a randomized field experiment to ask whether the provision of insurance against...
文件类型: 政策研究报告 报告号: WPS4425 文件日期: 2007年12月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Gine,Xavier,Yang,Dean
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Are remittances insurance? Evidence from rainfall shocks in the Philippines (英语)
Several facts motivate this study. First, life in developing countries is prone to many kinds of risk, such as crop and income loss due to natural disasters (weather, insect infestations, and fire) and...
文件类型: 日志文章 报告号: 77545 文件日期: 2007年5月1日 披露方式: Disclosed 作者: Choi, HwaJung,Yang,Dean