I demonstrate how a targeted program of utility subsidies leads to the persistence of low-...
Working Papers
We invite you to explore the working papers supported directly by CFSP as well as key working papers in the field of financial systems and poverty that were written by Consortium researchers.
Recent Working Papers
2011
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2011
We investigate the role of dynamic production inputs and their associated adjustment costs in... |
2011
This paper examines the effect of Wal-Mart’s entry into Mexico on Mexican... |
2010
A large body of evidence shows that informal insurance is an important risk-smoothing... |
2010
We use a laboratory experiment, conducted in 34 villages in Karnataka, India, to study the... |
2010
The Roy model predicts that migrants will be disproportionately drawn from the lower half of... |
2010
We study the welfare cost of market incompleteness in a generalized Bewley model where... |
2010
Microcredit has spread extremely rapidly since its beginnings in the late 1970s, but whether... |
2010
This paper argues that the relation between temptations and the level of consumption plays a... |
MIT Economics Department Working Paper
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2010
In developing countries, identifying the poor for redistribution or social insurance is... |