Diego Ubfal

Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank

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Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative Evidence from Survey Experiments

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Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative Evidence from Survey Experiments

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 25 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2018
Alexis Grigorieff, Christopher Roth and Diego Ubfal
University of Oxford, University of Warwick, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Economics, Students and Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank
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Biased Beliefs, Survey Experiment, Immigration, Policy Preferences, Persistence

Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative Evidence from Survey Experiments

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10419
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 27 Dec 2016
Alexis Grigorieff, Christopher Roth and Diego Ubfal
University of Oxford, University of Warwick, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Economics, Students and Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank
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attitudes towards immigrants, biased beliefs, survey experiment, immigration, policy preferences, persistence

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The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica

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The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 17 May 2019 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2020
Diego Ubfal, Irani Arraiz, Diether W. Beuermann, Michael Frese, Alessandro Maffioli and Daniel Verch
Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank, InterAmerican Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), National University of Singapore (NUS), Inter-American Development Bank and Leuphana University of Lueneburg
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Business Training, entrepreneurship, soft skills

The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12325
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 21 May 2019
Diego Ubfal, Irani Arraiz, Diether W. Beuermann, Michael Frese, Alessandro Maffioli and Daniel Verch
Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank, InterAmerican Development Bank, University of Maryland - College Park, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Leuphana University of Lueneburg
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business training, entrepreneurship, soft skills

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Banking the Unbanked? Evidence from Three Countries

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Banking the Unbanked? Evidence from Three Countries

NBER Working Paper No. w22463
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 01 Aug 2016
Pascaline Dupas, Dean S. Karlan, Jonathan Robinson and Diego Ubfal
Stanford University, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of California, Santa Cruz and Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank
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Banking the Unbanked? Evidence from Three Countries

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11420
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 01 Aug 2016
Pascaline Dupas, Dean S. Karlan, Jonathan Robinson and Diego Ubfal
Stanford University, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of California, Santa Cruz and Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank
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financial access; savings; banking; micro-finance; field experiment; multicountry; Uganda; Malawi; Chile

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The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Uruguayan Lotteries

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The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Uruguayan Lotteries

Number of pages: 82 Posted: 15 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 18 Jan 2020
Thomas Le Barbanchon, Diego Ubfal and Federico Araya
Bocconi University, Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank and Uruguayan Ministry of Labor and Social Security
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student employment, randomized lottery, program at scale, human capital accumulation

The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Uruguayan Lotteries

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13826
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 30 Jul 2019
Federico Araya, Thomas Le Barbanchon and Diego Ubfal
Uruguayan Ministry of Labor and Social Security, Bocconi University and Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank
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randomized lottery, student employment

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How General are Time Preferences? Eliciting Good-Specific Discount Rates

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6774
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Oct 2012
Diego Ubfal
Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank
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time preferences, self-control problems, good-specific discounting, savings, poverty traps

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Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: A Pan-African RCT

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12848
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 06 Jan 2020
Fernando Vega-Redondo, Paolo Pin, Diego Ubfal, Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil, Charles Brummitt, Gaia Rubera, Dirk Hovy and Tommaso Fornaciari
Universidad de Alicante - Department of Economic Analysis, Bocconi University - Department of Decision Sciences, Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank, European University Institute, Columbia University, Bocconi University, Bocconi University and Bocconi University
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social networks, peer effects, entrepreneurship, innovation, semantic analysis

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The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Uruguayan Lotteries

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13929
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 14 Dec 2020
Thomas Le Barbanchon, Diego Ubfal and Federico Araya
Bocconi university, Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank and Uruguayan Ministry of Labor and Social Security
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Banking the Unbanked: Evidence from Three Countries

Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 440
Posted: 10 Dec 2016
Pascaline Dupas, Dean S. Karlan, Jonathan Robinson and Diego Ubfal
Stanford University, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of California, Santa Cruz and Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank

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financial access, savings, banking, microfinance, field experiment, multi-country, Uganda, Malawi; Chile