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Entitled to work: Urban property rights and labor supply in Peru

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E Field - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Between 1996 and 2003, the Peruvian government issued property titles to over 1.2
million urban households, the largest titling program targeted at urban squatters in the
developing world. This paper examines the labor market effects of increases in tenure ...
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[PDF] Do property titles increase credit access among the urban poor? Evidence from a nationwide titling program

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E Field… - Department of Economics, Harvard …, 2006 - economics.harvard.edu
The failure of commercial banks to increase their rate of lending to households that obtain
property titles through government programs has important implications for the potential
effects of property reform on economic growth and poverty reduction. One explanation for ...
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Property rights and investment in urban slums

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E Field - Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract This paper examines the effect of changes in tenure security on residential
investment in urban squatter neighborhoods. To address the endogeneity of property rights,
I make use of variation in ownership status induced by a nationwide titling program in ...
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Repayment frequency and default in microfinance: Evidence from india

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E Field… - Journal of the European Economic …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In stark contrast to bank debt contracts, most micro-finance contracts require that
repayments start nearly immediately after loan disbursement and occur weekly thereafter.
Even though economic theory suggests that a more flexible repayment schedule would ...
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Early marriage, age of menarche, and female schooling attainment in Bangladesh

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E Field… - Journal of Political Economy, 2008 - JSTOR
Using data from rural Bangladesh, we explore the hypothesis that women attain less
schooling as a result of social and financial pressure to marry young. We isolate the causal
effect of marriage timing using age of menarche as an instrumental variable. Our results ...
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Property rights, community public goods, and household time allocation in urban squatter communities: evidence from Peru

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E Field - Wm. & Mary L. Rev., 2003 - HeinOnline
Urban property reform is an issue of current importance in many developing countries.
Among policymakers, property titling is increasingly considered an effective form of
government intervention for targeting the poor and encouraging economic growth in urban ...
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Educational debt burden and career choice: Evidence from a financial aid experiment at nyu law school

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E Field - 2006 - nber.org
This paper examines the influence of educational debt aversion on the career choice of law
school students, including the decision to attend law school and the decision to work in
public interest law. To isolate the role of debt aversion, I analyze experimental data from ...
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[PDF] Fertility responses to urban land titling programs: The roles of ownership security and the distribution of household assets

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E Field - unpublished paper, Harvard University, 2003 - worldbank.org
Abstract: This paper examines the link between intra-household allocation of ownership
rights and fertility using data from a nation-wide titling program in Peru. A stated objective of
the Peruvian program was to improve gender inequality of property ownership by ...
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Iodine deficiency and schooling attainment in Tanzania

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E Field, O Robles… - American Economic Journal: …, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Cognitive damage from iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) has important
implications for economic growth through its effect on human capital. To gauge the
magnitude of this influence, we evaluate the impact on schooling of reductions in IDD from ...
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Building social capital through microfinance

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B Feigenberg, EM Field… - 2010 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES BUILDING SOCIAL CAPITAL THROUGH
MICROFINANCE Benjamin Feigenberg Erica M. Field Rohini Pande Working Paper
16018 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16018 NATIONAL ...
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Educational debt burden and career choice: Evidence from a financial aid experiment at NYU Law School

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E Field - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This paper examines the influence of psychological responses to debt on career
choices from an experiment in which alternative financial aid packages were assigned by
lottery to a set of law school admits. The packages had equivalent monetary value, but ...
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[PDF] Do Traditional Institutions Constrain Female Entrepreneurship?

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E Field, S Jayachandran… - American Economic Review Papers …, 2010 - ifmr.ac.in
What constrains the entrepreneurial choices of poor women? Do traditional institutions pose
unique barriers to business growth and profitability for female-run enterprises? The
explosion of microfinance programs, which typically target poor female entrepreneurs, has ...
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Muslim Family Law, Prenuptial Agreements, and the Emergence of Dowry in Bangladesh

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A Ambrus, E Field… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2010 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We explain trends in dowry levels in Bangladesh by drawing attention to an
institutional feature of marriage contracts previously ignored in the literature: mehr or
traditional Islamic bride-price. We develop a model of marriage contracts in which mehr ...
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Social security health insurance for the informal sector in Nicaragua: a randomized evaluation

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RL Thornton, LE Hatt, EM Field, M Islam… - Health …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. HEALTH ECONOMICS Health Econ. 19: 181–206 (2010) Published online
30 June 2010 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI:
10.1002/hec.1635 SOCIAL SECURITY HEALTH INSURANCE FOR ...
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[PDF] Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia

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N Ashraf, E Field… - Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2010 - fmwww.bc.edu
Abstract This paper tests the role of spousal discordance in fertility preferences in explaining
low rates of contraceptive use and high rates of unwanted births through a field experiment
in Zambia. Married women were randomly assigned to receive, either alone or with their ...
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[PDF] The economic returns to social interaction: Experimental evidence from microfinance

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B Feigenberg, E Field… - Harvard University, 2011 - economics.harvard.edu
Abstract We exploit random variation in the meeting frequency of microfinance groups
during their first loan cycle to show that more frequent meeting is associated with long-run
increases in social interaction and lower default. Relative to clients who met on a monthly ...
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[PDF] Early Marriage and female schooling in Bangladesh

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E Field… - Harvard Papers, 2005 - dev.wcfia.harvard.edu
Abstract: This paper provides empirical evidence of the influence of adolescent marriage
opportunities on female schooling attainment and gives predictions of the impact of
imposing universal age-of-consent laws. Using data from rural Bangladesh, we explore ...
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The Cognitive link between geography and development: Iodine deficiency and schooling attainment in Tanzania

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EM Field, O Robles… - 2008 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE COGNITIVE LINK BETWEEN
GEOGRAPHY AND DEVELOPMENT: IODINE DEFICIENCY AND SCHOOLING
ATTAINMENT IN TANZANIA Erica M. Field Omar Robles Máximo Torero ...
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[BOOK] Impact evaluation for slum upgrading interventions

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EM Field, M Kremer… - 2006 - scholar.harvard.edu
Page 1. - 1 - Impact Evaluation for Slum Upgrading Interventions Erica Field1 Michael Kremer2
1 Harvard University, NBER, and BREAD. Email: efield@latte.harvard.edu 2 Harvard University;
Brookings Institution; NBER, and Center for Global Development. ...
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[PDF] Consequences of Early Marriage for women in Bangladesh

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E Field - draft, October,< efield@ latte. harvard. edu, 2004 - fordschool.umich.edu
Abstract: This paper provides empirical evidence on several dimensions of the potential
socioeconomic and physical consequences for girls of adolescent marriage using data from
rural Bangladesh. I explore the commonly cited hypotheses that women attain less ...
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Segregation, rent control, and riots: the economics of religious conflict in an Indian city

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E Field, M Levinson, R Pande… - The American Economic Review, 2008 - JSTOR
Religiousconflict is an important problem in many ethnically diverse countries (Donald L.
Horowitz 1985). A growing literature in eco? nomics suggests that conflict over resources is
frequentlyat the root of such violence (see, for instance, Joan Esteban and Debraj Ray ...
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[PDF] Does microfinance repayment flexibility affect entrepreneurial behavior and loan default?

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E Field, R Pande… - Microfinance Gateway, 2010 - economics.harvard.edu
Abstract Recent evidence suggests heterogenous impacts of microfinance loans, with
limited average effects on enterprise growth among the poor. One possibility is that the
rigidity of the classic microcredit contract–widely held to be important for reducing default– ...
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[PDF] Term structure of debt and entrepreneurial behavior: Experimental evidence from microfinance

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E Field, R Pande, J Papp… - 2010 - scholar.harvard.edu
Abstract Financiers across the world structure debt contracts to limit the risk of
entrepreneurial lending. However, certain debt structures that reduce risk may inhibit
enterprise growth, especially among the poor. We use a field experiment to estimate the ...
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[CITATION] Do Property Titles Increase Access to Credit? Evidence from Peru

E Field… - Cambridge, United States: Harvard University, 2003
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[CITATION] Race and Performance in Post-Apartheid South Africa

E Field… - 2005 - mimeo: Cornell University
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[CITATION] VDo property titles increase credit access among the urban poor

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Property rights and crop choice in rural Peru, 1994-2004

AJ Field, E Field… - MTID discussion papers, 2006 - ideas.repec.org
" The period of 1994 to 2004 was one in which rural households in Peru experienced
dramatic changes in ownership rights through a large nation-wide land titling program and a
significant opening of the economy to international trade. This paper takes this prime ...
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[PDF] Do social interactions facilitate cooperative behavior? Evidence from a group lending experiment in India

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B Feigenberg, E Field… - Mimeo, 2009 - hks.harvard.edu
Abstract Exploiting experimental variation in repayment meeting frequency across
microfinance groups, we show that more frequent interaction reduces social distance
between group members and enhances their social capital. One year after the end of the ...
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[CITATION] Early marriage and female education in Bangladesh

E Field… - unpublished paper Harvard< efield@ latte. harvard. …, 2005
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[CITATION] VFertility responses to land titling: The roles of ownership security and the distribution of household assets

E Field - V Cambridge MA: Harvard University, 2003
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[CITATION] Educational Debt Burden and Career Choice

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[CITATION] Entitle to work: informal enterprise in urban Peru

E Field - Development Outreach, 2005
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[CITATION] Debt Burden and Career: Results from a Field Experiment at NYU Law School

E Field - 2005 - Mimeo, Harvard University
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[CITATION] Do Property Titles Increase Credit Access among the Urban Poor? Evidence from Peru. Research Program in Development Studies

E FIELD… - Working Paper
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[CITATION] Impact of Land Titles over Rural Households

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[CITATION] Do Property Titles Increase Credit among the Urban Poor? Evidence from Peru

E Field… - 2002 - Mimeo. Princeton University
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[PDF] Term structure of debt and entrepreneurship: experimental evidence from microfinance

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E Field, R Pande, J Papp… - 2011 - agenda.unibocconi.it
Abstract This paper provides an experimental evaluation of how the term structure of debt
influences entrepreneurship among poor borrowers. We contrast the classic microfinance
contract which requires that repayment begins immediately after loan disbursement with a ...
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[CITATION] «Final Report: Impact of PETT Titles over Households»

E Field… - Lima: GRADE, 2004
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[PDF] The Impact of Business Training on Small Business Outcomes

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R Pande, E Field, S Jayachandran… - Centre for Micro Finance …, 2007 - ifmr.ac.in
Setting Shri Mahila SEWA Sahkari Bank was created in 1974, by the Self Employed
Women's Association (SEWA) in the city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The bank's 170,000
member–clients are primarily women who work in the informal sector in home-based ...
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[BOOK] Globalization, Crop Choice and Property Rights in Rural Peru: 1994-2004

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AJ Field… - 2007 - economics.harvard.edu
Abstract This paper describes the results of initial work analyzing a panel of rural
households in Peru between 1994 and 2004 to determine household responses to changes
in relative prices of traditional versus export-oriented products. Our principal interest was ...
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[CITATION] Are there upward intergenerational education spillovers on health? The impact of children's education on parents' smoking cessation

E Field - 2005 - Harvard University, mimeo (quoted …
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[PDF] Throwing the Baby out with the Drinking Water: Unintended Consequences of Arsenic Mitigation Efforts in Bangladesh

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E Field, R Glennerster… - 2011 - superfund.ciesin.columbia.edu
Abstract The 1994 discovery of arsenic in ground water in Bangladesh prompted a massive
public health effort to test all tubewells in the country and convince nearly one-quarter of the
population to switch to arsenic-free drinking water sources. According to numerous ...
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[PDF] Term Structure of Debt Structure and Entrepreneurship? Experimental Evidence from Microfinance

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E Field, R Pande, J Papp… - 2011 - nber.org
Abstract This paper provides an experimental evaluation of how the term structure of debt
influences entrepreneurship among poor borrowers. We contrast the classic microfinance
contract which requires that repayment begin immediately after loan disbursement with a ...
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[CITATION] Microfinance is not the enemy

A Banerjee, P Bardhan, E Duflo, E Field, D Karlan… - Financial Times Dec, 2010

[CITATION] Essays in Labor and Development Economics

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The period of 1994 to 2004 was one in which rural households in Peru experienced
dramatic changes in ownership rights through a large nation-wide land titling program and a
significant opening of the economy to international trade. This paper takes this prime ...
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AJ Field… - The Poor under Globalization in Asia, Latin …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: This chapter describes the results of initial work analysing a panel of rural
households in Peru between 1994 and 2004 to determine household responses to changes
in relative prices of traditional versus export-oriented products. Our principal interest was ...

[CITATION] Entitle to work: urban property rights and labor supply in Peru. Princeton: Princeton University

E FIELD - outubro de, 2002

[PDF] Debt Structure, Entrepreneurship, and Risk: Evidence from Microfinance

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E Field, R Pande, J Papp… - 2011 - povertyactionlab.org
Abstract This paper examines whether and how repayment structure of a debt contract
influences entrepreneurship. Using a field experiment, we contrast the classic microfinance
contract which requires repayment begin immediately after loan disbursement with a ...
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[CITATION] Do property titles increase credit access among the urban poor? Evidence from a Nationwide Titling Program. Princeton: Princeton University

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[PDF] The Economic Returns to Social Interaction

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B Feigenberg, E Field… - 2011 - centre-for-microfinance.com
Abstract We exploit random variation in the meeting frequency of microfinance groups
during their first loan cycle to show that more frequent meeting is associated with long-run
increases in social interaction and lower default. Relative to clients who met on a monthly ...
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Proceedings of the twenty second annual congress of the European Economic Association, Budapest, August 2007

G TABELLINI, L GUISO, P SAPIENZA, L ZINGALES… - 2008 - cadmus.eui.eu
Proceedings of the twenty second annual congress of the European
Economic Association, Budapest, August 2007. ...
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[CITATION] Diferencias en el Acceso de las Mujeres al Micro Crédito en el Perú y el Impacto de la Tenencia del Título de Propiedad (Differences in Women's Access …

E Field… - Lima: GRADE, 2004
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[CITATION] Le droit au travail

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