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Last Published February 12, 2018 08:34 AM October 22, 2024 04:10 AM
Study Withdrawn No
Intervention Completion Date September 30, 2015
Data Collection Complete Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization) 175 clusters
Was attrition correlated with treatment status? No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations 3,139 study households
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms 3,139 study households across 175 clusters
Public Data URL https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180607
Is there a restricted access data set available on request? No
Program Files Yes
Program Files URL https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180607
Data Collection Completion Date December 30, 2015
Is data available for public use? Yes
Keyword(s) Agriculture, Health, Labor, Welfare Agriculture, Health, Labor, Welfare
Building on Existing Work No
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Paper Abstract Rural economies in many developing countries are characterized by a lean season in the months preceding harvest, when farmers have depleted their cash and grain savings from the previous year. To identify the impacts of liquidity during the lean season, we offered subsidized loans in randomly selected villages in rural Zambia. Ninety-eight percent of households took up the loan. Loan eligibility led to increases in on-farm labor and agricultural output, driving up wages in local labor markets. Larger effects for poorer households suggest that liquidity constraints contribute to inequality in rural economies.
Paper Citation Fink, Günther, B. Kelsey Jack, and Felix Masiye. 2020. "Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets, and Agricultural Production." American Economic Review, 110 (11): 3351–92.
Paper URL https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180607
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