SSRN Global Poverty Research Lab, Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Northwestern University Research Paper Series

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Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 18-101

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 19 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2018

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Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan and Benjamin Roth

Northwestern University, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Harvard Business School

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Credit Allocation Under Economic Stimulus: Evidence from China

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-108

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 19 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2018

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Lin William Cong, Haoyu Gao, Jacopo Ponticelli and Xiaoguang Yang

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

There are 2 versions of this paper

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Dangers of a Double-Bottom Line: A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 18-105

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2018

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Dean Karlan, Adam Osman and Jonathan Zinman

Northwestern University, Yale University and Dartmouth College

There are 2 versions of this paper

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Financial Incentives as Signals: Experimental Evidence from the Recruitment of Village Promoters in Uganda

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-105

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Feb 2018

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Erika Deserranno

Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS)

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Do Credit Constraints Limit Entrepreneurship? Heterogeneity in the Returns to Microfinance

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-104

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 19 Feb 2018

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Abhijit V. Banerjee, Emily Breza, Esther Duflo and Cynthia Kinnan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Northwestern University - Department of Economics

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Competition and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Mills

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-103

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 19 Feb 2018

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Rocco Macchiavello and Ameet Morjaria

University of Oxford - Nuffield College of Medicine and Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS)

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Unpacking a Multi-Faceted Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Very Poor

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 18-102

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Feb 2018

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Abhijit V. Banerjee, Dean Karlan, Robert Darko Osei, Hannah Trachtman and Christopher Udry

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Northwestern University, University of Ghana - Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), Harvard College and Northwestern University

There are 3 versions of this paper

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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-112

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 21 Feb 2018

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Matthias Doepke and Michèle Tertilt

Northwestern University - Department of Economics and University of Mannheim - Department of Economics

There are 6 versions of this paper

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Guns and Roses: Flower Exports and Electoral Violence in Kenya

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-102

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 19 Feb 2018

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Christopher Ksoll, Rocco Macchiavello and Ameet Morjaria

University of Oxford, University of Oxford - Nuffield College of Medicine and Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS)

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Capital Accumulation and Structural Transformation

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-107

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 19 Feb 2018

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Paula Bustos, Gabriel Garber and Jacopo Ponticelli

CREI; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil - Central Bank of Brazil and Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance

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Engel's Law in the Global Economy: Demand-Induced Patterns of Structural Change, Innovation and Trade

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-110

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 21 Feb 2018

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Kiminori Matsuyama

Northwestern University - Department of Economics

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Life-Cycle Human Capital Accumulation Across Countries: Lessons from U.S. Immigrants

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-113

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 21 Feb 2018

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David Lagakos, Benjamin Moll, Tommaso Porzio, Nancy Qian and Todd Schoellman

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics, Princeton University - Department of Economics, Yale University, Yale University - Department of Economics and Arizona State University (ASU) - W.P. Carey School of Business

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Geographical Advantage: Home Market Effect in a Multi-Region World

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-111

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Feb 2018

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Kiminori Matsuyama

Northwestern University - Department of Economics

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How Can Bill and Melinda Gates Increase Other People's Donations to Fund Public Goods?

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 18-106

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 07 Mar 2018

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Dean Karlan and John A. List

Northwestern University and University of Chicago - Department of Economics

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Is Democracy Detrimental for the Environment in Developing Countries? Evidence from Kenya

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-101

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 19 Feb 2018

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Ameet Morjaria

Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS)

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The Long-Run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-114

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 21 Feb 2018

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Murat Iyigun, Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian

University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Economics and Yale University - Department of Economics

There are 4 versions of this paper

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Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 18-104

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 26 Feb 2018

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Gharad Bryan, James J. Choi and Dean Karlan

London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, Yale School of Management and Northwestern University

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Beyond CES: Three Alternative Cases of Flexible Homothetic Demand Systems

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-109

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Feb 2018

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Kiminori Matsuyama and Philip Ushchev

Northwestern University - Department of Economics and National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Environmental Externalities and Free-Riding in the Household

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-116

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 21 Feb 2018

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B. Kelsey Jack, Seema Jayachandran and Sarojini Rao

Tufts University - Department of Economics, Northwestern University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago

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Intuitive Donating: Testing One-Line Solicitations for $1 Donations in a Large Online Experiment

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 18-103

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 21 Feb 2018

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Samantha Horn and Dean Karlan

Northwestern University and Northwestern University

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Leader Selection and Service Delivery in Community Groups: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-106

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 21 Feb 2018

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Erika Deserranno, Miri Stryjan and Munshi Sulaiman

Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), Ben Gurion University of the Negev and BRAC-Africa

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The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China: Theory and Empirical Evidence on the Autocrat's Trade-Off

Buffett Institute Global Poverty Research Lab Working Paper No. 17-115

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 21 Feb 2018

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Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian and Yang Yao

Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI), London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), Yale University - Department of Economics and Peking University

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