Calendrier du 31 mars 2021
Development Economics Seminar
Du 31/03/2021 de 16:30 à 18:00
Via Zoom
AGGARWAL Shilpa (India School of Business)
Saving for Multiple Financial Needs: Evidence from Lockboxes and Mobile Money in Malawi
We test whether the provision of multiple labeled savings accounts affects savings and downstream outcomes in an experiment with 761 microentrepreneurs in urban Malawi. Treatment respondents received one or multiple savings accounts, in the form of lockboxes or mobile money. We find that while providing additional boxes increased savings by 40%, technical issues marred the efficacy of a second mobile money account. Data from novel high-frequency surveys suggests that both types of accounts had impacts on downstream outcomes, including farming decisions and credit extended to customers. We do not detect differential downstream effects by the number or modality of accounts.
Economic History Seminar
Du 31/03/2021 de 12:30 à 14:00
via Zoom
KAMBAYASHI Ryo (Université Hitotsubashi)
Consequence of Hometown Regiment: Gender Imbalance and Industrial Structure in the Post-war Japan
écrit avec with Kentaro Asai (PSE)
War sometimes made a huge gender imbalance in certain cohort and in certain areas. While such gender imbalance may have moved the trajectory of economic development, the controversy is still inconclusive, because the market economy has a strong restoring force. We intend to contribute to this literature by introducing the Japanese experience during the second world war. Japan lost more than 2 million soldiers eternally between 1938 and 1945. In addition, since the Japan Imperial Army organized its main force as hometown regiment, the loss of young male is concentrated in certain cohort of certain geographical areas. By exploiting the variation of changes in gender balance cohort-by-prefecture, we examined the loss of young male may affect the post-war industrial structure. What we found so far is that the reduction of gender ratio may have led to slower industrialization, though it is only to a limited degree in terms of quantity.