Limited access to reliable financial instruments makes it difficult for rural households to manage daily cash flows. Selling goods through cooperatives can improve savings, but cooperative income is not easily accessible when facing an emergency.
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We use plant level census data to identify spillovers from FDI in Ethiopia's manufacturing sector.
Misperceiving and misreporting input quality: Implications for input use and productivity
Farmers in developing countries routinely misperceive or misreport input quality for various reasons, which introduces substantial measurement error in farm survey data.
Cheap talk and coordination in the lab and in the field: Collective commercialization in Senegal
In Senegal, revealing farmers’ intentions improves collective commercialization, & learning in the lab transfers to day-to-day behaviors.
Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods
Lengthy surveys where designated respondents provide information about their household members can lead to both losses & biases as fatigue grows during interviews.
“Moving umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China
This paper studies the pattern of interregional investment after bureaucratic transfers across Chinese cities.
A substantial literature has analyzed the challenges around weather index insurance, yet an important design issue has been generally overlooked.
Cash transfers, polygamy, and intimate partner violence: Experimental evidence from Mali
Cash transfer programs primarily targeting women in Latin America and East Africa have been shown to reduce intimate partner violence (IPV), but knowledge gaps remain on how impacts differ by program features and context.