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    Paying attention to profitable investments : experimental evidence from renewable energy markets (2019)
    [Washington, DC, USA] : World Bank Group, Development Economics, Development Impact Evaluation Group
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 50 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 9009
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Coville, Aidan Paying Attention to Profitable Investments: Experimental Evidence from Renewable Energy Markets
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    Abstract: This paper provides an explanation for why many information campaigns fail to affect decision-making. The authors experimentally show that a large information intervention about a profitable and climate-friendly household investment had limited effects if it only provided generic data. In contrast, it caused households to make new investments when it followed a campaign strategy designed to minimize information processing costs. This finding is consistent with a model of selective attention, where individuals prioritize information believed to be valuable after accounting for the costs of attending to the data that arise due to limited mental energy and time. The paper studies a range of possible mechanisms and finds corroborative evidence of selective attention as an inhibitor to learning
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9009
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    Climate Anomalies and International Migration : A Disaggregated Analysis for West Africa (2021)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (56 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Print Version: Martinez Flores, Fernanda Climate Anomalies and International Migration: A Disaggregated Analysis for West Africa
    Abstract: Migration is one of the channels West African populations can use to adjust to the negative impacts of climate change. Using novel geo-referenced and high- frequency data, this study investigates the extent to which soil moisture anomalies drive international migration decisions within the region and toward Europe. The findings show that drier soil conditions decrease (rather than increase) the probability to migrate. A standard deviation decrease in soil moisture leads to a 2 percentage point drop in the probability to migrate, equivalent to a 25 percent decrease in the number of migrants. This effect is concentrated during the crop-growing season and likely driven by financial constraints. The effect is only seen for areas that are in the middle of the income distribution, with no impact on the poorest or richest areas of a country, suggesting that the former were constrained to start and the latter canaddress those financial constraints
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9664
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    The social value of health insurance : results from Ghana (2019)
    [Washington, DC, USA] : World Bank Group, Development Economics, Development Impact Evaluation Group
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 45 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 9004
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Garcia-Mandico, Silvia The Social Value of Health Insurance Results from Ghana
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    Abstract: This paper uses the roll-out of the national health insurance in Ghana to assess the cushioning effect of coverage on the financial consequences of health shocks and resulting changes in coping behaviors. The analysis finds a strong reduction in medical expenditures, preventing households from cutting non-food consumption and causing a decrease in the volume of received remittances as well as the labor supply of healthy adult household members. Moreover, the paper presents evidence that the insurance scheme reduced the likelihood that households experiencing a health shock pulled their children out of school to put them to work. Avoidance of such costly coping mechanisms is potentially an important part of the social value of formal health insurance
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9004
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    Small Cash Rewards for Big Losers : Experimental Insights into the Fight against the Obesity Epidemic (2015)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (48 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Augurzky, Boris Small Cash Rewards for Big Losers: Experimental Insights into the Fight against the Obesity Epidemic
    Abstract: This paper examines the sustainability of weight loss achieved through cash rewards and, for the first time, the potential of monetary incentives to prevent weight cycling. In a three period randomized controlled trial, about 700 obese persons were assigned to two treatment groups, which were promised different cash rewards contingent on the achievement of an individually assigned target weight, and to a control group. Successful participants were subsequently allocated to two treatment groups offered different monetary incentives for maintaining the previously achieved target weight and to a control group. This is the first experiment of this kind that finds sustainable effects of weight loss rewards on the body weight of the obese even 18 months after the rewards were removed. Additional incentives to maintain an achieved body weight improve the sustainability of weight loss only while are in place
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7339
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    Religious Terrorism, Forced Migration, and Women's Empowerment : Evidence from the Boko Haram Insurgency (2023)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (74 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Elice, Paola Religious Terrorism, Forced Migration, and Women's Empowerment: Evidence from the Boko Haram Insurgency
    Keywords: Boko Haram ; Conflict and Development ; Fertility Choices ; Forced Displacement ; Fulani Conflict ; GBV ; Gender ; Gender and Health ; Gender-Based Violence ; Social Norms ; VAWG ; Violence Against Women and Girls ; Women's Agency
    Abstract: This paper examines the link between violent attacks of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, forced migration, and the empowerment of women in host communities. The paper finds positive effects of distant attacks on the economic well-being of women, their use of modern contraceptive methods, and rejection of traditional gender views. At the same time, however, the findings show an increase in the risk that women experience domestic violence. The paper then extensively examines forced displacement as an effect channel and its importance relative to other possible channels for explaining the spatial dispersion of the effects. Compared with Boko Haram attacks, the results are remarkably different for Fulani pastoralist-farmer clashes over natural resources
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-10524
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