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- Does Management Matter? Evidence from India (2011) (1403)
- Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2007) (1199)
- Network effects and the dynamics of migration and inequality: Theory and evidence from Mexico (2007) (935)
- In Pursuit of Balance: Randomization in Practice in Development Field Experiments (2008) (789)
- World development report 2007 : development and the next generation (2006) (709)
- Can migration reduce educational attainment? Evidence from Mexico (2006) (651)
- Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Role of Migration Networks (2007) (581)
- The Effects of Migration on Child Health in Mexico (2005) (538)
- Theory and Evidence (2009) (518)
- How Important is Selection? Experimental Versus Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration (2006) (453)
- Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns (2008) (452)
- Experimental evidence on returns to capital and access to finance in Mexico (2008) (429)
- The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific (2009) (361)
- Do Entry Costs Provide an Empirical Basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from Mexican Microenterprises (2006) (344)
- Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka (2012) (331)
- The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization Among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka (2012) (304)
- Why Do Firms in Developing Countries Have Low Productivity (2010) (297)
- Measuring microenterprise profits: Must we ask how the sausage is made? (2007) (283)
- Microenterprise growth and the flypaper effect: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana (2014) (270)
- Eight Questions About Brain Drain (2011) (268)
- Teaching personal initiative beats traditional training in boosting small business in West Africa (2017) (265)
- Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition (2015) (247)
- Measuring Microenterprise Profits: Don't Ask How the Sausage is Made (2007) (243)
- The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program (2009) (235)
- Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries (2015) (231)
- How do Households Cope with Aggregate Shocks? Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis (2003) (229)
- Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the Evidence (2014) (227)
- Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The Microdata Show that More Educated Migrants Remit More (2009) (219)
- Beyond Remittances : The Effects of Migration on Mexican Households (2005) (215)
- The Economic Consequences of ‘Brain Drain’ of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries (2010) (214)
- A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants have Over-Optimistic Expectations about Incomes Abroad? (2007) (203)
- Mental health and poverty in developing countries: revisiting the relationship. (2007) (186)
- Using Repeated Cross-Sections to Explore Movements in and Out of Poverty (2011) (181)
- Entry Regulation and Formalization of Microenterprises in Developing Countries (2013) (176)
- The Distributive Impact of Privatization in Latin America: Evidence from Four Countries (2003) (176)
- Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (2009) (166)
- When is Capital Enough to Get Female Microenterprises Growing? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ghana (2011) (164)
- Enterprise Recovery Following Natural Disasters (2010) (159)
- One-Time Transfers of Cash or Capital Have Long-Lasting Effects on Microenterprises in Sri Lanka (2012) (158)
- Who are the Microenterprise Owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. De Soto (2008) (156)
- The Impact of Vocational Training for the Unemployed: Experimental Evidence from Turkey (2014) (155)
- How Important is Selection? Experimental vs. Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration (2006) (154)
- Migration and Mental Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2007) (153)
- Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error: A Pseudo-Panel Approach (2005) (144)
- Urban water supply in India: status, reform options and possible lessons (2009) (141)
- When is Capital Enough to Get Female Enterprises Growing? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Ghana (2011) (139)
- A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms (2013) (132)
- Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being (2012) (127)
- Paper Walls are Easier to Tear Down: Passport Costs and Legal Barriers to Emigration (2005) (120)
- Aggregate Shocks and Urban Labor Market Responses: Evidence from Argentina's Financial Crisis (2004) (116)
- Asymptotic theory for heterogeneous dynamic pseudo-panels (2004) (116)
- Who Are the Microenterprise Owners (2010) (116)
- Why Don't Remittances Appear to Affect Growth? (2014) (114)
- The Development Impact of a Best Practice Seasonal Worker Policy (2010) (112)
- Disentangling Age, Cohort and Time Effects in the Additive Model (2006) (91)
- Scientific mobility and knowledge networks in high emigration countries: evidence from the Pacific (2014) (85)
- The Consumer Response to the Mexican Peso Crisis (2006) (82)
- Accounting for Selectivity and Duration-Dependent Heterogeneity When Estimating the Impact of Emigration on Incomes and Poverty in Sending Areas (2010) (82)
- Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from India (2018) (78)
- How cost elastic are remittances? Estimates from Tongan migrants in New Zealand (2006) (78)
- Indonesian Living Standards: Before and After the Financial Crisis (2005) (76)
- Migration and education inequality in rural Mexico (2006) (75)
- Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies (2010) (68)
- The impact of soft skills training on female youth employment: evidence from a randomized experiment in Jordan (2016) (67)
- The Impact of Financial Literacy Training for Migrants (2012) (66)
- The Minimal Impact of a Large-Scale Financial Education Program in Mexico City (2014) (63)
- Growing Markets Through Business Training for Female Entrepreneurs: A Market-Level Randomized Experiment in Kenya (2017) (60)
- What happens to diet and child health when migration splits households? Evidence from a migration lottery program (2011) (59)
- The Impact of Immigration on Child Health: Experimental Evidence from a Migration Lottery Program (2012) (59)
- Econometric Cost Structure Estimates for Cellular Telephony in the United States (1997) (56)
- DISTRIBUTIVE IMPACT OF PRIVATIZATION IN LATIN AMERICA: AN OVERVIEW OF EVIDENCE FROM FOUR COUNTRIES (2002) (56)
- The Development Impact of a Best Practice Seasonal Worker Policy: New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) Scheme (2010) (56)
- Does inducing informal firms to formalize make sense? Experimental evidence from Benin (2018) (55)
- Labor Drops: Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises (2016) (54)
- Do Wage Subsidies Provide a Stepping-Stone to Employment for Recent College Graduates? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Jordan (2016) (53)
- Getting Credit to High Return Microentrepreneurs: The Results of an Information Intervention (2011) (53)
- Small Firm Death in Developing Countries (2017) (51)
- Predicting entrepreneurial success is hard: Evidence from a business plan competition in Nigeria (2019) (51)
- Using PDA consistency checks to increase the precision of profits and sales measurement in panels (2012) (49)
- A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants (2006) (49)
- Can Migration Reduce Educational Attainments? Depressing Evidence from Mexico (2006) (46)
- Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments: Evidence from a Lab-in-The-Field Experiment and New Product Take-Up Among Filipino Migrants in Rome (2014) (45)
- Small Business Training to Improve Management Practices in Developing Countries: Reassessing the Evidence for “Training Doesn'T Work” (2020) (43)
- Testing the importance of search frictions and matching through a randomized experiment in Jordan (2015) (40)
- Unpacking the determinants of entrepreneurship development and economic empowerment for women in Kenya (2019) (40)
- Short-Term Impacts of Formalization Assistance and a Bank Information Session on Business Registration and Access to Finance in Malawi (2015) (40)
- Wage Subsidies for Microenterprises (2010) (37)
- The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery (2015) (37)
- A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country International Migrants (2008) (36)
- Who is Coming from Vanuatu to New Zealand Under the New Recognized Seasonal Employer Program? (2008) (36)
- Learning the Impact of Financial Education When Take-Up is Low (2017) (36)
- Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited (2012) (35)
- Mental health recovery and economic recovery after the tsunami: high-frequency longitudinal evidence from Sri Lankan small business owners. (2008) (35)
- The Economic Consequences Of (2010) (34)
- Improving Management with Individual and Group-Based Consulting: Results from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia (2019) (34)
- Who does Microfinance Fail to Reach ? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns (2007) (33)
- Buying Less, But Shopping More: Changes In Consumption Patterns During A Crisis (2005) (33)
- Remittances in the Pacific (2007) (31)
- Using administrative data to evaluate municipal reforms: an evaluation of the impact of Minas Fácil Expresso (2013) (31)
- Why is Voluntary Financial Education so Unpopular? Experimental Evidence from Mexico (2013) (30)
- Estimation of AR(1) models with unequally spaced pseudo-panels (2001) (30)
- Learning from the Experiments that Never Happened: Lessons from Trying to Conduct Randomized Evaluations of Matching Grant Programs in Africa (2012) (30)
- Reducing Information Asymmetries in the Youth Labor Market of Jordan with Psychometrics and Skill Based Tests (2015) (29)
- Macroinsurance for Microenterprises: A Randomized Experiment in Post-Revolution Egypt (2014) (28)
- Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension (2010) (27)
- Learning about migration through experiments (2012) (26)
- What is the cost of formality? Experimentally estimating the demand for formalization (2009) (25)
- Australia's Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme (PSWPS): Development Impacts in the First Two Years (2011) (24)
- The additionality impact of a matching grant programme for small firms: experimental evidence from Yemen (2015) (24)
- How Effective Are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries (2017) (23)
- The Impact of Capital Controls on Growth Convergence (2001) (23)
- Development Impacts of Seasonal and Temporary Migration: A Review of Evidence from the Pacific and Southeast Asia (2013) (23)
- Moving to opportunity, leaving behind what? Evaluating the initial effects of a migration policy on incomes and poverty in source areas (2007) (22)
- Does Management Matter? Evidence from India (IGC Working Paper) (2010) (22)
- Efficient remittance services for development in the Pacific (2010) (22)
- Australia's PSWPS: Development impacts in the first two years (2011) (21)
- Are tortillas a Giffen Good in Mexico (2002) (21)
- Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error: A Pseudo‐Panel Approach (2007) (20)
- The demand for, and impact of, youth internships: evidence from a randomized experiment in Yemen (2015) (20)
- Development Impacts of Seasonal and Temporary Migration: A Review of Evidence from the Pacific and Southeast Asia: Impacts of Temporary Migration (2014) (18)
- Increasing formality and productivity of Bolivian firms (2009) (18)
- What Generates Growth in Microenterprises? Experimental Evidence on Capital, Labor and Training (2014) (18)
- The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from a Migration Lottery and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments (2016) (18)
- Can Business Owners Form Accurate Counterfactuals? Eliciting Treatment and Control Beliefs About Their Outcomes in the Alternative Treatment Status (2016) (17)
- Can Enhancing the Benefits of Formalization Induce Informal Firms to Become Formal? Experimental Evidence from Benin (2016) (17)
- Improving Business Practices and the Boundary of the Entrepreneur: A Randomized Experiment Comparing Training, Consulting, Insourcing and Outsourcing (2020) (16)
- How do Pacific island households and communities cope with seasonally absent members (2009) (15)
- The Impact of Economics Blogs (2011) (15)
- Precautionary saving and consumption growth in Taiwan (2006) (14)
- Is Personal Initiative Training a Substitute or Complement to the Existing Human Capital of Women? Results from a Randomized Trial in Togo (2018) (14)
- Radio Frequency (Un)Identification: Results from a Proof-of-Concept Trial of the Use of RFID Technology to Measure Microenterprise Turnover in Sri Lanka (2014) (14)
- Returns to capital in micro enterprises : evidence from a field experiment (2013) (14)
- The Household Response to the Mexican Peso Crisis. (2001) (13)
- Invitation Choice Structure Has No Impact on Attendance in a Female Business Training Program in Kenya (2014) (13)
- The Results of a Pilot Financial Literacy and Business Planning Training Program for Women in Uganda (2009) (11)
- INNOVATIVE FIRMS OR INNOVATIVE OWNERS ? (2009) (11)
- Bolivian capitalization and privatization: Approximation to an evaluation (2004) (10)
- The World Bank economic review 22 (3) (2001) (10)
- Revisiting the relationship between mental health and poverty in developing countries: a response to Corrigall (2008) (10)
- CONSEQUENCES OF DRINKING. TRENDS IN ALCOHOL PROBLEM STATISTICS IN SEVEN COUNTRIES (1983) (9)
- - 1 - USING THE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS) IN HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS FOR BETTER ECONOMICS AND BETTER POLICY* (2007) (9)
- Estimating the Demand for Business Training : Evidence from Jamaica (2020) (8)
- Measuring Inequality with Asset Indicators forthcoming , Journal of Population Economics (2004) (8)
- Information Flows and Migration: Recent Survey Evidence from the South Pacific (2010) (8)
- The Impact of Financial Literacy Training for Migrants at Destination (2012) (8)
- An Econometric Analysis of the Creditworthiness of Ibrd Borrowers (2002) (8)
- Toward Successful Development Policies: Insights from Research in Development Economics (2020) (7)
- Japanese-Brazilians and the Future of Brazilian Migration to Japan (2014) (7)
- An Econometric analysis of IBRD creditworthiness (2004) (7)
- Mental Health Patterns And Consequences: Results From Survey Data In Five Developing Countries, Volume 1of 1 (2008) (6)
- The tyranny of experts: economists, dictators, and the forgotten rights of the poor, by William Easterly (2014) (6)
- The Economic Consequences of 'Brain Drain' of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries (2010) (6)
- If it needs a power calculation, does it matter for poverty reduction? (2019) (6)
- ERRATUM: RETURNS TO CAPITAL IN MICROENTERPRISES: EVIDENCE FROM A FIELD EXPERIMENT (2009) (6)
- Quantifying Some of the Impacts of Economics Blogs (2014) (6)
- Youth, ICTs, and development (2007) (5)
- Closing the Gender Gap – Personal Initiative Training and Female Business Performance (2018) (5)
- Personal Initiative Training Leads to Remarkable Growth of Women-Owned Small Businesses in Togo (2018) (4)
- The Prudence of Mexican Consumers (2002) (4)
- Mental Health Patterns and Consequences (2012) (4)
- Getting Credit to High Return Microentrepreneurs (2012) (4)
- How reliable are survey estimates of remittances? Evidence from a cross-reporting survey exercise (2017) (4)
- MIGRATION OPERATIONAL VEHICLE OPERATIONAL NOTE 1 Migration, Poverty and Human Capital * (2007) (3)
- Is microfinance’s emphasis on women inefficient? Experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns (2007) (3)
- The Long-Term Impact of International Migration on Economic Decision-Making (2016) (3)
- How Does High-Skilled Emigration Affect Small Countries: Microeconomic Evidence from Tonga (2010) (3)
- Micro-Equity for Microenterprises (2019) (3)
- Replication data for: Identifying and Spurring High-Growth Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from a Business Plan Competition (2019) (3)
- Martin Ruhs’ The Price of Rights: Achievements and next steps for migration scholars (2015) (3)
- Business Training for Female Microenterprise Owners in Kenya Grew Their Firms without Harming Their Competitors (2017) (3)
- 3962 Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners ? Determinants of Innovation in Micro , Small , and Medium Enterprises (2009) (2)
- Academic blogs are proven to increase dissemination of economic research and improve impact (2011) (2)
- The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration (2015) (2)
- What Prevents More Small Firms from Using Professional Business Services? An Information and Quality-Rating Experiment in Nigeria (2021) (2)
- Development Economics as Taught in Developing Countries (2015) (2)
- Natural experiment evidence on whether selection bias overstates the gains from Migration (2006) (2)
- Development through seasonal worker programs : the case of New Zealand's RSE program (2014) (2)
- Soft Skills or Hard Cash (2012) (2)
- Finding a Path to Formalization in Benin: Early Results after the Introduction of the Entreprenant Legal Status (2015) (2)
- What Is Considered Development Economics? Commonalities and Differences in University Courses around the Developing World (2017) (2)
- Business Training for New and Existing Female-Owned Firms in Sri Lanka (2012) (2)
- Why is more capital not enough to grow female businesses (2009) (2)
- Experimental Evidence on Shortening Supply Chains for Fruit and Vegetable Vendors in Bogota’s Slums (2019) (2)
- Dynamic pseudo-panel theory and analysis of consumption in Taiwan and Mexico (2001) (2)
- Preliminary Impacts of a New Seasonal Work Program on Rural Household Incomes in the Pacific (1970) (2)
- How is development economics taught in developing countries? (2018) (2)
- The Additionality Impact of a Matching Grant Program for Small Firms (2016) (2)
- Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the (2014) (1)
- Replication data for: Labor Drops: Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises (2019) (1)
- WoRking PaPeR 4934 Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners ? Determinants of Innovation in Micro , Small , and Medium Enterprises (2009) (1)
- Can Grants to Consortia Spur Innovation and Science-Industry Collaboration? (2017) (1)
- 2822 An Econometric Analysis of IBRD Creditworthiness (2002) (1)
- A pilot study of the bristol social adjustment guides used with pre-school children (1969) (1)
- Testing job matching services for unemployed educated youth in Jordan (2014) (1)
- Impacts of formal registration of businesses in Malawi (2019) (1)
- Using GPS in Household Surveys for Better Economics and Better Policy (2007) (1)
- Do Informal Firms Want to Formalize and Does It Help Them If They Do (2012) (1)
- Making It Easier for Women in Malawi to Formalize Their Firms and Access Financial Services (2015) (1)
- Piloting macroinsurance for microenterprises in post-revolution Egypt (2014) (1)
- Helping Firms Realize the Benefits of (Partial) Formalization (2018) (1)
- Do marginal firms in Bolivia benefit from formalizing (2009) (1)
- Spurring development through a Seasonal Migration Program (2010) (1)
- New Zealand Using the Global Positioning System (GPS) in Household Surveys For Better Economics and Better Policy (2007) (1)
- Which Microenterprises have High Returns to Capital (2009) (0)
- Do wage subsidies help young women get jobs (2012) (0)
- Women business training programme in Kenya : impact of incentives (2016) (0)
- The Impact of Expanding Simplified Start-up Procedures to More Remote Areas: The Minas Facil Expresso Program (2013) (0)
- Spurring innovation with matching grants : evidence from Yemen (2015) (0)
- Insights from Research in Development Economics (2020) (0)
- Economic Protection Program: Pre-Analysis Plan (2012) (0)
- Statement of loans for August 2013 : Africa (2013) (0)
- Replication data for: Is Personal Initiative Training a Substitute or Complement to the Existing Human Capital of Women? Results from a Randomized Trial in Togo (2019) (0)
- Creating jobs through a business plan competition : evidence from Nigeria’s youwin competition (2015) (0)
- Research grants for science-industry collaboration : do they spur innovation? (2017) (0)
- Why do Firms in Developing Countries Have Low Productivity? (2010) (0)
- Long term impacts of one off grants to microenterprises (2012) (0)
- Economics blogs clearly impact positively on paper downloads, professional reputation and stand to exert an influence on policy (2011) (0)
- Why is voluntary financial education so unpopular? : Evidence from Mexico (2013) (0)
- Turkey - Do job training programs help people find jobs? (2014) (0)
- Improving Management in Colombian Firms Through Individual and Group Consulting (2019) (0)
- Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf, and Karla Hoff, eds.Poverty Traps. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. Pp. vi+241. $35.00 (cloth). (2007) (0)
- Which youth get to make human capital decisions? Results from recent surveys. (2007) (0)
- UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO Hamilton New Zealand Migration and Mental Health : Evidence From a Natural Experiment (2006) (0)
- Will migrants remit more if they can channel payments directly for education? lab-in-the-field and proof of concept trial results (2014) (0)
- A Simple Model of a Poverty Trap at a Country Level (2014) (0)
- Summary 3 Lit Training Entrepreneurs (2020) (0)
- CAPITALIZATION AND PRIVATIZATION IN BOLIVIA : AN APPROXIMATION TO AN EVALUATION Written by Gover Barja (2007) (0)
- No . 254 Earnings Mobility and Measurement Error : A Pseudo-Panel Approach by (2005) (0)
- Are labor market imperfections the reason so few microenterprises hire workers? : an experiment in Sri Lanka suggests they are not (2017) (0)
- The impact of blogs part II: Blogging enhances the blogger’s reputation, but does it influence policy? (2011) (0)
- Capital, gender, and microenterprise growth in Ghana (2011) (0)
- THE E CONOMIC C ONSEQUENCES O F ' BRAIN D RAIN' O F THE BEST AND B RIGHTEST: MICROECONOMIC E VIDENCE FROM F IVE C OUNTRIES* (2012) (0)
- Spurring Innovation with Matching Grants (2015) (0)
- TRENDS IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND PUBLIC ORDER. CONSEQUENCES OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN ONTARIO 1950-1980 (1983) (0)
- Enhancing the benefits of formalization under a new status in Benin (2016) (0)
- The link between the high wage gains from international migration and the vulnerability of migrant flows to shocks at destination (2011) (0)
- How Should Business Training be Priced? A Demand Experiment in Jamaica (2020) (0)
- Shortening Supply Chains for Fruit and Vegetable Vendors in Bogota (2019) (0)
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