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Formal Rainfall Insurance for the Informally Insured in India

Mushfiq Mobarak
Mark Rosenzweig
Researchers evaluated how informal insurance within Indian sub-castes affects the demand for formal rainfall insurance, and subsequent risk-taking among households employed in agriculture. Informal insurance both increased and decreased the demand for formal rainfall insurance, depending on the...
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Balancing Health Benefits and Risks of ACT Subsidies for Africa

Jessica Cohen
Pascaline Dupas
Simone Schaner
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Dependence Duration and Labor Market Conditions: Evidence from the United States

Kory Kroft
Fabian Lange
Matthew Notowidigdo
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Incentives to Save in Ghana

Gharad Bryan
Margaret McConnell
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Demand for Rainwater Harvesting Devices in Uganda

Mushfiq Mobarak
In Uganda, researchers studied the demand for rainwater storage devices, the effectiveness of various marketing strategies in promoting them, and their impact on indicators such as school attendance and women’s participation in the labor market.
Résumés were randomly assigned black- or white-sounding names. Researchers examined the impact of the name on callbacks.

Discrimination in the Job Market in the United States

Marianne Bertrand
Sendhil Mullainathan
Researchers examined the level of racial discrimination in the United States labor market by randomly assigning identical résumés black-sounding or white-sounding names and observing the impact on requests for interviews from employers. Results found that résumés with white-sounding names received...
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Relationship Banking in India

Antoinette Schoar

Text Message Loan Repayment Reminders for Micro-Borrowers in the Philippines

Dean Karlan
Melanie Morten
Jonathan Zinman
In “the text message capital of the world,” the Philippines, researchers tested the effect of text message reminders on client repayment rates. In contrast with previous research, they found that text message reminders did not increase repayment on average. Yet for repeat borrowers, who had known...