Tags : Poverty Reduction

About 9 results
[Rescheduled] Mobilizing P2P Diffusion for New Agricultural Practices: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
We run a randomized controlled experiment in which farmers trained on a new rice cultivation method teach two other farmers selected by us. We find that the intervention increases yields and farm profits among treated farmers. Teacher-trainees are effective at spreading knowledge and inducing adoption relative to ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2020/fafchamps-mobilizing-p2p-diffusion-bangladesh
Affirmative Action, Attitudes and Social Networks: Evidence from Caste-Based Reservation in India
We study the impacts of political affirmative action for historically disadvantaged caste groups in Bihar, India on village social and economic networks. These networks serve many functions such as facilitating social learning as well as providing access to resources through relationships. To estimate the causal ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2020/breza-affirmative-action-attitudes-social-networks-caste-based-reservation-india
Roads and Loans
Does financing respond to changes in productive opportunities, even for the world’s poor? We answer this question by examining the response of private bank financing to a rural infrastructure program in India, which brought road access to unconnected villages. The program prioritized roads for villages above ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/sumit-agarwal-abhiroop-mukherjee-roads-and-loans
Targeting credit through community members
[Update 2020.12.15] Our apologies that due to a technical issue the webinar was not livestreamed to our Facebook page as originally planned.      Community-based lending programs may reduce distortions in credit markets by exploiting information transmitted in local networks, but connections may ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2020/vera-cossio-targeting-credit-community-members
Peer networks and entrepreneurship: a Pan-African randomized controlled trial
Can large-scale peer interaction foster entrepreneurship and innovation? We conducted an RCT involving almost 5,000 entrepreneurs from 49 African countries. All were enrolled in an online business course, and the treatment involved random assignment to either face-to-face or virtual (Internet-mediated) interaction. We ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2020/vega-redondo-peer-networks-entreprenurship-pan-friac-rct
city image