A5068420593- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
- Economic Growth and Development
- Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Socioeconomic Development in Asia
- Housing Market and Economics
- European Monetary and Fiscal Policies
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Early Childhood Education and Development
Center for Social and Economic Research
2018-2025
University of Southern California
2017-2024
National Bureau of Economic Research
2012-2024
Southern California University for Professional Studies
2020-2023
Yale University
2019-2023
Institute of Economic Growth
2023
The University of Melbourne
2022
Duke University
2019-2022
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
2019-2022
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
2022
Can increasing control over earnings incentivize a woman to work, and thereby influence norms around gender roles? We randomly varied whether rural Indian women received bank accounts, training in account use, direct deposit of public sector wages into their own (versus husbands') accounts. Relative the accounts only group, who also worked more private jobs. The result suggests initially constrained female employment. Three years later, broadly liberalized women's work-related norms, shifted...
Both under- and over-treatment of communicable diseases are public bads. But efforts to decrease one run the risk increasing other. Using rich experimental data on household treatment-seeking behavior in Kenya, we study implications this trade-off for subsidizing life-saving antimalarials sold over-the-counter at retail drug outlets. We show that a very high subsidy (such as under consideration by international community) dramatically increases access, but nearly one-half subsidized pills go...
This paper uses a field experiment to test whether intrahousehold heterogeneity in discount factors leads inefficient strategic savings behavior. I gave married couples rural Kenya the opportunity open both joint and individual bank accounts at randomly assigned interest rates. also directly elicited for all individuals experiment. Couples who are well matched on less likely use costly respond robustly relative rates of return between accounts, while their poorly peers do not. Consequently,...
Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development. Recent studies have shown that gender norms can help explain these differences in women's work, but the channels through which impact employment decisions are not well understood. We present novel data on spouses' preferences and perceptions community attitudes about female rural India document associations work. find perceived social cost work falls men husbands'...
Since March 10, 2020, we have been tracking effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on respondents to nationally representative Understanding America Study (UAS). After an initial survey that covered 10–31, launched surveys every two weeks. Every day, about 500 are invited take for a total 7,000 over two-week period. Results shared in variety ways. About 3,000 graphs updated night, with corresponding tab-delimited text files available download. The underlying micro-data registered researchers...
This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i.e.those who can work from home) non-remote in United States.Using a large, nationally-representative, high-frequency panel dataset March through July 2020, we show that job losses were up to three times as large workers.This gap is larger than differential women, African Americans, Hispanics, or without college degrees.Non-remote also experienced relatively worse health, which...
Working with a private bank in Ghana, this study examines the impacts of commitment savings product designed to help clients taking repeated overdrafts break their debt cycles. Overall, significantly increased without increasing overdrafts. However, after accounting for other sources savings, finds that above-median baseline overdraft histories do not accrue new during period. Rather, they draw down offset committed amount and take on debt. In contrast, individuals below-median increase
Simone Schaner is Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, JPAL, NBER, and BREAD. The author thanks Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Tavneet Suri for invaluable advice feedback Eric Edmonds, Dan Keniston, Ben Olken, Sandip Sukhtankar, Rob Townsend many useful comments. This project would not have been possible without the tireless assistance, hard work, commitment employees Family Bank, especially Victor Keriri Mwangi, Steve Mararo, Michael Aswani Were.
This paper uses over 20 years of data from Indonesia's labor force survey to study trends in female participation (FLFP). We find that younger women urban areas have increased their recent years, largely through wage employment, while rural reduced participation, by opting out informal, unpaid employment. evidence jobs are more desirable than other types work and many exit due family childcare constraints. outline a research-policy evaluation female-centered vocational training job placement...
I use a field experiment in rural Kenya to study how temporary incentives save impact long-run economic outcomes. Study participants randomly selected receive large interest rates on an individual bank account had significantly more income and assets 2.5–3.5 years after the expired. These changes are much larger than short-run impacts experimental almost entirely driven by growth entrepreneurship. In contrast, joint accounts modest cash payments did not (JEL C93, D13, D14, D90, G21, I32, O12)
The COVID-19 pandemic had large impacts on mental health; however, most existing evidence is focused the initial lockdown period and high-income contexts. By assessing trajectories of health symptoms in India over 2 years, we aim to understand effect later time periods characteristics a lower-middle income context.
This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i.e. those who can work from home) non-remote in United States. Using a large, nationally-representative, high-frequency panel dataset March through July 2020, we show that job losses were up to three times as large workers. gap is larger than differential women, African Americans, Hispanics, or without college degrees. Non-remote also experienced relatively worse health, which likely...
Since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, behavioural interventions to reduce disease transmission have been central public health policy worldwide. Sustaining individual protective behaviour is especially important in low-income and middle-income settings, where systems fewer resources access vaccination limited. This study seeks assess time trends India.Nationally representative, panel-based, longitudinal study.We conducted a panel survey Indian households understand how adoption behaviours...
Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural individual bank accounts randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program were directly deposited into these or the male household head’s account (the status quo). Women in random subset of villages also trained on use. short run, relative just offered accounts, those who received direct deposit training increased...
Time use data facilitate understanding of labor supply, especially for women who often undertake unpaid care and home production. Although assisted diary-based time surveys are suitable low-literacy populations, they costly rarely used. We create a low-cost, scalable alternative that captures contextually-determined broad categories; here, allocations across market work, household labor, leisure. Using fewer categories larger intervals takes 33% less than traditional modules. Field...
In an experiment in Mali, we tested whether patients pressure providers to prescribe unnecessary medical treatment. We varied patients’ information about a discount for antimalarial tablets and measure demand both costlier injections. find evidence of patient-driven demand: informing the discount, instead letting decide share this information, increased use by 35 percent overall malaria treatment 10 percent. These marginal rarely had malaria, worsening illness-treatment match. Providers did...
India's abrupt nationwide Covid-19 lockdown internally displaced millions of migrant workers, who returned to distant rural homes. Documenting their labour market reintegration is a critical aspect understanding the economic costs pandemic for poor. In country marked by low and declining female force participation, identifying gender gaps in - as marker both women's vulnerability at times crisis setbacks agency especially important. Yet most studies pandemic-displaced internal migrants India...