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Aug 29, 2024 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Dercon, Stefan; Girum, Abebe; Hensel, Lukas; Caria, Stefano, 2024, "G²LM|LIC - Can Temporary Financial Incentives for Female Industrial Workers Lead to Long-Term Retention and a Better Allocation of Talent?", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.538.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
A G²LM|LIC Research Project conducted by the University of Oxford. In this project, the research team studies whether worker turnover contributes to the misallocation of talent in low-income countries. To this end, they will experimentally evaluate the impacts of offering financi... |
Nov 12, 2023 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Schnedler, Wendelin, 2023, "The Broken Chain: Evidence Against Emotionally Driven Upstream Indirect Reciprocity", https://doi.org/10.15185/j.geb.2022.10.008, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
Psychologists claim that being treated kindly puts individuals in a positive emotional state: they then treat an unrelated third party more kindly. Numerous experiments document that subjects indeed ‘pay forward’ specific behavior. For example, they are less generous after having... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Hsu, Eric; Wancera Wambugu, Anne, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Taming Counterfeits Markets with Consumer Information", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.620.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The project aimed to study whether an information campaign to improve Kenyan farmers’ ability to detect quality of agricultural inputs—such as seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides was able to help: increase usage of techniques to verify seed quality, increase adoption of quality-ver... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Fehr, Dietmar; Fink, Günther; Jack, B. Kelsey, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.720466.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The authors investigate in a sample of over 3,000 small-scale farmers in Zambia, who were given the opportunity to exchange randomly assigned household items for alternative items of similar value. Analyzing a total of 5,842 trading decisions over a range of items, including cash... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Alfonsi, Livia; Namubiru, Mary; Spaziani, Sara, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Meet Your Future Project: COVID-19 Phone Surveys - Students and Alumnis", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.696.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The Meet Your Future Project (MYF) is an RCT designed in partnership with BRAC Uganda to investigate the relative importance of several barriers to quality employment that students face when transitioning from the educational sector into labor markets characterized by high levels... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Whillans, Ashley; Belal, Saika, 2023, "G²LM|LIC - Tracking the Value of Time of Informal Sector Workers During and Post-Curfew in Nairobi", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.701.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal field experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of working moth... |
Nov 12, 2023 - G²LM|LIC - Gender Growth and Labor Markets in Low-Income Countries
Ambler, Kate; Arcangelis, Guiseppe De; Yang, Dean, 2023, "G2LM|LIC – Impacts of Labeling Remittances on Migrants and their Households in the Philippines", https://doi.org/10.15185/glmlic.702.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
The study seeks to support the Philippine COVID-19 response by quantifying the role of international migrant remittances in helping households cope with the pandemic’s economic consequences. To investigate how pandemic closures and restrictions affect migrants’ income and remitta... |
Nov 5, 2023 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Dohmen, Thomas; Shvartsman, Elena, 2023, "Overexertion of Effort under Working Time Autonomy and Feedback Provision", https://doi.org/10.15185/izadp.16028.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
The researchers develop an experiment to show that overprovision of costly effort is more likely to occur in work environments with working time autonomy in the absence of feedback. A key feature of the design is that it allows for a clean measurement of effort overprovision by k... |