Center Discussion Papers
Nos. 1011- latest
1011. Karlan, Dean, Morten, Melanie, Zinman, Jonathan,
"A Personal
Touch: Text Messaging for Loan Repayment," February 2012 (19 pp.)
1012. Guinnane, Timothy, Martinez-Rodriguez, Susana,
"For Every Law a Loophole:
Flexibility in the Menu of Spanish Business Forms, 1886-1936."
May 2012 (47 pp.)
1013. Guinnane, Timothy, Streb, Jochen,
"Incentives
That Saved Lives: Government Regulation of Accident Insurance
Associations in Germany, 1884-1914. August 2012 (46 pp.)
1014.
Karlan, Dean, Knight, Ryan, Udry Christopher,
"Hoping to Win, Expected to
Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development," August
2012 (55 pp.)
1015. Ranis, Gustav,
"Another
Look at Foreign Aid," August 2012 (25 pp.)
1016. Ranis, Gustav,
"Labor
Surplus Revisited," September 2012 (30 pp.)
1017. Ranis ,Gustav, "Vertical
and Horizontal Decentralization and Ethnic Diversity in Sub-Saharan
Africa," August 2012 (19 pp.)
1018. Meghir, Costas, Narita, Renata, Robin, Jean-Marc, "Wages
and Informality in Developing Countries," September 2012, (67 pp.)
1019. Karlan, Dean, Osei-Akoto, Isaac, Darko Osei, Robert, Udry,
Christopher, "Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints,"
June 2013 (65 pp.)
1020. Beaman, Lori, Karlan, Dean, Thuysbaert, Bram, Udry, Christopher,
"Probability
of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali,"
January 2013, (7 pp.)
1021. Guinnane, Timothy, Ogilvie, Sheilagh,
"A Two-Tiered
Demographic System: "Insiders" and "Outsiders" in Three Swabian
Communities, 1558-1914," February 2013 (67 pp.)
1022. Weese, Eric, "Political Mergers as Coalition Formation: An Analysis of the Heisei Municipal Amalgamations," April 2013 (59 pp.)
1023.Bodenhorn, Howard, Guinnane, Timothy, Mroz, Thomas, "Problems of Sample-selection Bias in the Historical Heights Literature: A Theoretical and Econometric Analysis," May 2013 (101 pp.)
1024. Karlan, Dean, Zinman, Jonathan, "Long-Run Price Elasticities of Demand for Credit: Evidence from a Countrywide Field Experiment in Mexico," May 2013 (52 pp).
1025. Jamison, Julian, Karlan, Dean, Raffler, Pia, "Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive mHealth Sexual Information Texting Service in Uganda," May 2013 (36 pp).
1026. Angelucci, Manuela, Karlan, Dean, Zinman, Jonathan,
"Win Some Lose
Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement
Experiment by Compartamos Banco," May 2013 (69 pp)
1027. Karlan, Dean, Ratan, Aishwarya Lakshmi, Zinman, Jonathan, "Savings
By and For the Poor: A Research Review and Agenda," October 2013
(44 pp).
1028. Atkin, David,
"The
Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants," June 2013, (49
pp).
1029. Rosenzweig, Mark, Udry, Chris,
"Forecasting Profitability," August 2013, (47 pp).
1030. Benyishay, Ariel, Mobarak, A. Mushfiq, "Communicating
with Farmers through Social Networks," August 2013, (61 pp).
1031. Anagol, Santosh, Etang, Alvin, Karlan, Dean,
"Continued
Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism?," August
2013, (31 pp).
1032. Bryan, Gharad, Chowdhury, Shyamal, Mobarak, Ahmed Musfiq,
"Escaping
Famine through Seasonal Migration," June 2013, (107 pp)
1033. Karlan, Dean, Thuysbaert, Bram,
"Targeting
Ultra-poor Households in Honduras and Peru," October 2013, (40 pp).
1034. Karlan, Dean, Osman, Adam, Zinman, Jonathan.
"Follow the
Money: Methods for Identifying Consumption and Investment Responses to a
Liquidity Shock," November 2013, (25 pp).
1035. Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq & Rosenzweig, Mark, "Risk,
Insurance and Wage in General Equilibrium," December 2013, (47 pp).
1036. Rosenzweig, Mark & Udry, Christopher,
"Rainfall
Forecasts, Weather and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle,"
January 2014, (15 pp).
1037. Karlan, Dean & Linden, Leigh,
"Loose Knots:
Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda,"
January 2014, (34 pp).
1038. Karlan, Dean & Wood, Daniel, "The
Effect of Effectiveness: Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct
Mail Fundraising Experiment," June 2015, (26 pp).
1039. Rosenzweig, Mark & Zhang, Junsen, "Co-residence,
Life-Cycle Savings and Inter-generational Support in Urban China,"
April 2014, (52 pp).
1040. Karlan, Dean, Jamison, Julian, Zinman, Jonathan,
"Financial
Education and Access to Savings Accounts:Complements or Substitutes?
Evidence from Ugandan Youth Clubs,"
May 2014, (127 pp)
1041. Fischer, Greg, Karlan, Dean, McConnell, Margaret, Raffler, Pia, "To
Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in
Uganda," October 2014, (46 pp).
1042. Beaman, Lori, Karlan, Dean, Thuysbaert, Bram, Udry, Christopher, "Self-Selection
into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali," August
2015 (46 pp).
1043. Beaman, Lori, Karlan, Dean, Thuysbaert, Bram,
"Saving for a
(not so) Rainy Day: A Randomized Evaluation of Savings Groups in Mali,"
October 2014 (43 pp).
1044. Alan, Sule, Cemalcilar,
Mehmet, Karlan, Dean, Zinman, Jonathan,
"Unshrouding Effects on Demand for a Costly Add-on: Evidence from Bank
Overdrafts in Turkey," January 2015 (42 pp).
1045. Fischer, Greg, Karlan, Dean, "The
Catch-22 of External Validity in the Context of Constraints to Firm
Growth," January 2015, (9 pp).
1046. Attanasio, Orazio, Cattan, Sarah, Fitzsimons, Emla, Meghir, Costas,
Rubio-Condina, Marta, "Estimating the Production Function for Human
Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Columbia," February 2015 (92 pp)
1047. Carneiro, Pedro, Koussihouede, Oswald, Lahire, Nathalie, Meghir,
Costas, Mommaerts, Corina, "Decentralizing
Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal," March 2015 (63 pp).
1048. Karlan, Dean, Berry, James, Pradhan, Menno, "The
Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana," March 2015 (33
pp).
1049. Guinnane, Timothy, Martinez-Rodriguez, Susana, "Choice of Enterprise Form: Spain, 1886-1936," June 2015, (64 pp).
1050. Weese, Eric, Hayashi, Masayoshi, Nishikawa, Masashi, "Inefficiency and Self-Determination: Simulation-Based Evidence From Meiji Japan," August 2015, (98 pp).
