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Erlend Berg

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(10%) Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE)
Department of Economics
Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom
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(10%) Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO)
School of Economics
University of Bristol

Bristol, United Kingdom
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(80%) School of Economics
University of Bristol

Bristol, United Kingdom
http://www.bris.ac.uk/economics/
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Working papers

  1. Erlend Berg & Michael Blake & Karlijn Morsink, 2021. "Risk Sharing and the Demand for Insurance: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia," Bristol Economics Discussion Papers 21/742, School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK.
  2. Erlend Berg & D Rajasekhar & R Manjula, 2017. "Cellfare: Delivering Self-Targeted Welfare Using Mobile Phones," CSAE Working Paper Series 2017-14, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
  3. Erlend Berg & Sambit Bhattacharyya & D Rajasekhar & R Manjula, 2014. "Can Public Employment Schemes Increase Equilibrium Wages? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 14/317, The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, UK.
  4. Erlend Berg & Maitreesh Ghatak & R Manjula & D Rajasekhar & Sanchari Roy, 2013. "Motivating Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance?," STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series 042, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
  5. Erlend Berg & Sambit Bhattacharyya & Rajasekhar Durgam & Manjula Ramachandra, 2012. "Can Rural Public Works Affect Agricultural Wages? Evidence from India," CSAE Working Paper Series 2012-05, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
  6. Erlend Berg, 2011. "Funeral insurance," CSAE Working Paper Series 2011-16, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
  7. Erlend Berg & Maitreesh Ghatak & R Manjula & D Rajasekhar & Sanchari Roy, 2011. "Implementing Health Insurance For The Poor: The Rollout Of Rsby In Karnataka," STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series 025, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
  8. Erlend Berg, 2010. "Are poor households credit-constrained or myopic? Evidence from a South African panel," CSAE Working Paper Series 2010-31, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.

Articles

  1. Berg, Erlend & Blake, Michael & Morsink, Karlijn, 2022. "Risk sharing and the demand for insurance: Theory and experimental evidence from Ethiopia," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 195(C), pages 236-256.
  2. Erlend Berg & D. Rajasekhar & R. Manjula, 2022. "Pushing Welfare: Encouraging Awareness and Uptake of Social Benefits in South India," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 70(2), pages 901-939.
  3. Erlend Berg & Maitreesh Ghatak & R Manjula & D Rajasekhar & Sanchari Roy, 2019. "Motivating Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance?," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 129(617), pages 110-142.
  4. Berg, Erlend & Bhattacharyya, Sambit & Rajasekhar, D. & Manjula, R., 2018. "Can public works increase equilibrium wages? Evidence from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 103(C), pages 239-254.
  5. Elizabeth A. Holcombe & Erlend Berg & Sarah Smith & Malcolm G. Anderson & Niels Holm-Nielsen, 2018. "Does Participation Lead to Ongoing Infrastructure Maintenance? Evidence from Caribbean Landslide Mitigation Projects," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(8), pages 1374-1391, August.
  6. Erlend Berg, 2018. "Funeral Insurance: An Inter-Generational Commitment Device?," Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies, vol. 27(3), pages 321-346.
  7. Berg, Erlend, 2013. "Are poor people credit-constrained or myopic? Evidence from a South African panel," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 101(C), pages 195-205.

Citations

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  1. Erlend Berg, 2011. "Funeral insurance," CSAE Working Paper Series 2011-16, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.

    Mentioned in:

    1. Why is funeral insurance so popular in Africa?
      by Economic Logician in Economic Logic on 2011-11-08 22:41:00

Working papers

  1. Erlend Berg & Michael Blake & Karlijn Morsink, 2021. "Risk Sharing and the Demand for Insurance: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia," Bristol Economics Discussion Papers 21/742, School of Economics, University of Bristol, UK.

    Cited by:

    1. Lei, Guangyong & Qiu, Baoyin & Yu, Junli & Zuo, Jingjing, 2023. ""Hitting the jackpot" in corporate tax strategy: A perspective on gambling preferences," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).
    2. Dan Anderberg & Karlijn Marsink, 2019. "The introduction of formal insurance and its effect on redistribution," CESifo Working Paper Series 7596, CESifo.
    3. Kaelab K. Haile & Eleonora Nillesen & Nyasha Tirivayi, 2019. "Impact of Formal Climate Risk Transfer Mechanisms on Risk-Aversion: Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia," CESifo Working Paper Series 7717, CESifo.
    4. Haddis Solomon & Yoko Kijima, 2022. "Does Land Certification Mitigate the Negative Impact of Weather Shocks? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(19), pages 1-17, October.
    5. Simon Wagner & Sophie Thiam & Nadège I. P. Dossoumou & Michael Hagenlocher & Maxime Souvignet & Jakob Rhyner, 2022. "Recovering from Financial Implications of Flood Impacts—The Role of Risk Transfer in the West African Context," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(14), pages 1-20, July.
    6. Anderberg, Dan & Morsink, Karlijn, 2020. "The introduction of formal insurance and its effect on redistribution," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 179(C), pages 22-45.
    7. Nigus, Halefom & Nillesen, Eleonora & Mohnen, Pierre, 2018. "The effect of weather index insurance on social capital: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia," MERIT Working Papers 2018-007, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    8. Williams Ali & Awudu Abdulai & Ashok K. Mishra, 2020. "Recent Advances in the Analyses of Demand for Agricultural Insurance in Developing and Emerging Countries," Annual Review of Resource Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 12(1), pages 411-430, October.

  2. Erlend Berg & Sambit Bhattacharyya & D Rajasekhar & R Manjula, 2014. "Can Public Employment Schemes Increase Equilibrium Wages? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 14/317, The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, UK.

    Cited by:

    1. Deininger,Klaus W. & Jin,Songqing & Nagarajan,Hari Krishnan & Singh,Sudhir K., 2020. "Political Reservation and Female Labor Force Participation in Rural India," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9350, The World Bank.
    2. Imbert, Clement & Papp, John, 2016. "Short-term Migration Rural Workfare Programs and Urban Labor Markets - Evidence from India," Economic Research Papers 269578, University of Warwick - Department of Economics.
    3. Deininger, Klaus & Nagarajan, Hari K & Singh, Sudhir K, 2020. "Women's political leadership and economic empowerment: Evidence from public works in India," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 48(2), pages 277-291.
    4. Gehrke, Esther & Hartwig, Renate, 2015. "How can public works programmes create sustainable employment?," IDOS Discussion Papers 11/2015, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
    5. Clément Imbert & John Papp, 2015. "Labor Market Effects of Social Programs: Evidence from India's Employment Guarantee," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 7(2), pages 233-263, April.
    6. Deininger,Klaus W. & Nagarajan,Hari Krishnan & Singh,Sudhir K. & Deininger,Klaus W. & Nagarajan,Hari Krishnan & Singh,Sudhir K., 2016. "Short-term effects of India's employment guarantee program on labor markets and agricultural productivity," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7665, The World Bank.
    7. Gehrke, Esther, 2015. "Can public works infrastructure affect employment outcomes? Evidence from the NREGS in India," IDOS Discussion Papers 9/2015, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
    8. Merfeld, Joshua D., 2019. "Spatially heterogeneous effects of a public works program," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 151-167.
    9. Kurosaki, Takashi & Usami, Yoshifumi, 2016. "A Note on the Reliability of Agricultural Wage Data in India: Reconciliation of Monthly AWI Data for District-Level Analysis," Review of Agrarian Studies, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, vol. 6(1), July.
    10. Merfeld, Joshua D, 2017. "Spatially Heterogeneous Effects of a Public Works Program," MPRA Paper 80630, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    11. Reddy, Amarender A. & Rani, Radhika Ch. & Reddy, G.P., 2014. "Labor Scarcity and Farm Mechanisation: A Cross State Comparison," Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, vol. 69(3), pages 1-12.
    12. Li, Yanan & Liu, Yanyan, 2016. "Does Providing Public Works Increase Workers' Wage Bargaining Power in Private Sectors? -- Evidence from National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India," 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts 236181, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

  3. Erlend Berg & Maitreesh Ghatak & R Manjula & D Rajasekhar & Sanchari Roy, 2013. "Motivating Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance?," STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series 042, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.

    Cited by:

    1. Shehryar Munir & Farah Said & Umar Taj & Maida Zafar, 2022. "Digital 'nudges' to increase childhood vaccination compliance: Evidence from Pakistan," Papers 2209.06624, arXiv.org.
    2. Katrin Schmelz & Anthony Ziegelmeyer, 2015. "Social Distance and Control Aversion: Evidence from the Internet and the Laboratory," TWI Research Paper Series 100, Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut, Universität Konstanz.
    3. Batista, Catia & Fafchamps, Marcel & Vicente, Pedro C., 2021. "Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing among Strangers," IZA Discussion Papers 14780, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    4. Singh, Nirvikar, 2018. "Financial Inclusion: Concepts, Issues and Policies for India," MPRA Paper 91047, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Mahbubur Rahman & Tania Jahir & Farzana Yeasmin & Farzana Begum & Mosammot Mobashara & Khobair Hossain & Rizwana Khan & Rezwana Hossain & Fosiul Alam Nizame & Anika Jain & Elli Leontsini & Leanne Unic, 2021. "The Lived Experiences of Community Health Workers Serving in a Large-Scale Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Intervention Trial in Rural Bangladesh," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(7), pages 1-14, March.
    6. A. Stefano Caria & Marcel Fafchamps, 2015. "Can Farmers Create Efficient Information Networks? Experimental Evidence from Rural India," CSAE Working Paper Series 2015-07, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
    7. Fafchamps, Marcel & Islam, Asad & Malek, Mohammad Abdul & Pakrashi, Debayan, 2020. "Can referral improve targeting? Evidence from an agricultural training experiment," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 144(C).
    8. Li, Sherry Xin & Wang, Shengzhe & Yang, Shuo, 2023. "What is in Local Dialects? A Field Experiment on Social Distance and Human Capital Development in Job Training," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 106(C).
    9. Marx, Benjamin & Pons, Vincent & Suri, Tavneet, 2021. "Diversity and team performance in a Kenyan organization☆," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 197(C).
    10. Butschek, Sebastian & González Amor, Roberto & Kampkötter, Patrick & Sliwka, Dirk, 2022. "Motivating gig workers – evidence from a field experiment," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 75(C).
    11. Malani, Anup & Kinnan, Cynthia & Conti, Gabriella & Imai, Kosuke & Miller, Morgen & Swaminathan, Shailender & Voena, Alessandra & Woda, Bartek, 2024. "Evaluating and pricing health insurance in lower-income countries: A field experiment in India," CEPR Discussion Papers 19326, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    12. Oliver Kirchkamp & Wladislaw Mill, 2018. "Conditional Cooperation and the Effect of Punishment," CESifo Working Paper Series 7115, CESifo.
    13. Nicole Black & Lachlan Deer & David W. Johnston & Johannes S. Kunz, 2023. "Are You Okay? Effects of a National Peer-Support Campaign on Mental Health," Papers 2023-08, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University.
    14. William A. Masters & Prakarsh Singh, 2016. "Impact of caregiver incentives on child health: Evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in India," Discussion Papers Series, Department of Economics, Tufts University 0818, Department of Economics, Tufts University.
    15. A Stefano Caria & Marcel Fafchamps, 2014. "Cooperation and Expectations in Networks: Evidence from a Network Public Good Experiment in Rural India," CSAE Working Paper Series 2014-33, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
    16. Delavallade, Clara, 2021. "Motivating teams: Private feedback and public recognition at work," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 197(C).
    17. Raghunathan, Kalyani & Alvi, Muzna & Sehgal, Mrignyani, 2023. "Ethnicity, information and cooperation: Evidence from a group-based nutrition intervention," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 120(C).
    18. Delavallade,Clara Anne, 2021. "Motivating Teams : Private Feedback and Public Recognition at Work," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9621, The World Bank.
    19. Timothy Besley & Maitreesh Ghatak, 2018. "Prosocial Motivation and Incentives," Annual Review of Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 10(1), pages 411-438, August.
    20. Afridi, Farzana, 2017. "Governance and Public Service Delivery in India," IZA Discussion Papers 10856, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

  4. Erlend Berg & Sambit Bhattacharyya & Rajasekhar Durgam & Manjula Ramachandra, 2012. "Can Rural Public Works Affect Agricultural Wages? Evidence from India," CSAE Working Paper Series 2012-05, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.

    Cited by:

    1. Khanna, Gaurav & Zimmermann, Laura, 2017. "Guns and butter? Fighting violence with the promise of development," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 120-141.
    2. Das, Arindam & Usami, Yoshifumi, 2017. "Wage Rates in Rural India, 1998–99 to 2016–17," Review of Agrarian Studies, Foundation for Agrarian Studies, vol. 7(2), December.
    3. Chakravarty, Shourish & Mullally, Conner C., 2020. "Impacts of anti-poverty programs on land use change – the case of NREGS in India," 2020 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, Kansas City, Missouri 304640, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    4. Bryce Millett Steinberg & Manisha Shah, 2015. "Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India," Working Papers id:7755, eSocialSciences.
    5. Asian Development Bank (ADB), 2013. "Empowerment and Public Service Delivery in Developing Asia and the Pacific," ADB Reports RPT135565-3, Asian Development Bank (ADB), revised 15 May 2013.
    6. Parmar, Divya & Banerjee, Aneesh, 2019. "Impact of an employment guarantee scheme on utilisation of maternal healthcare services: Results from a natural experiment in India," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 222(C), pages 285-293.
    7. Karthik Muralidharan & Paul Niehaus & Sandip Sukhtankar, 2023. "General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence From India," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 91(4), pages 1261-1295, July.
    8. Gehrke,Esther Isabelle, 2017. "An employment guarantee as risk insurance ? assessing the effects of the NREGS on agricultural production decisions," Policy Research Working Paper Series 8015, The World Bank.
    9. Bose, Nayana, 2017. "Raising Consumption Through India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 245-263.
    10. Saini, Shweta & Gulati, Ashok & von Braun, Joachim & Kornher, Lukas, 2020. "Indian Farm Wages: Trends, growth drivers and linkages with food prices," Discussion Papers 307268, University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF).
    11. Klonner, Stefan & Oldiges , Christian, 2014. "Safety Net for India's Poor or Waste of Public Funds? Poverty and Welfare in the Wake of the World's Largest Job Guarantee Program," Working Papers 0564, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics.
    12. Trivelli, C. & Clausen, J. & Vargas, S., 2017. "IFAD RESEARCH SERIES 9 - Social protection and inclusive rural transformation," IFAD Research Series 280047, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
    13. World Trade Organisation, 2015. "India Development Update : Towards a Higher Growth Path," Working Papers id:6821, eSocialSciences.
    14. Sen Gupta, Abhijit & Bhattacharya, Rudrani & Rao, Narhari, 2014. "Understanding Food Inflation in India," MPRA Paper 58319, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    15. Murgai, Rinku & Ravallion, Martin & van de Walle, Dominique, 2013. "Is workfare cost-effective against poverty in a poor labor-surplus economy?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6673, The World Bank.
    16. Deininger, Klaus & Liu, Yanyan, 2013. "Welfare and poverty impacts of India’s national rural employment guarantee scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh:," IFPRI discussion papers 1289, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    17. Yoshifumi Usami & Arindam Das & Madhura Swaminathan, 2020. "Methodology of Data Collection Unsuited to Changing Rural Reality: A Study of Agricultural Wage Data in India," Journal, Review of Agrarian Studies, vol. 10(2), pages 48-74, July-Dece.
    18. Manisha Shah & Bryce Millett Steinberg, 2017. "Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long-Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 125(2), pages 527-561.
    19. Mihir Shah, 2016. "Should India do away with the MGNREGA?," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 59(1), pages 125-153, March.
    20. Deininger, Klaus & Liu, Yanyan, 2013. "Welfare and poverty impacts of India's national rural employment guarantee scheme : evidence from Andhra Pradesh," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6543, The World Bank.
    21. Chari, A.V. & Glick, Peter & Okeke, Edward & Srinivasan, Sinduja V., 2019. "Workfare and infant health: Evidence from India's public works program," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 138(C), pages 116-134.
    22. Thiemo Fetzer, 2014. "Can Workfare Programs Moderate Violence? Evidence from India," STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series 053, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
    23. Santangelo, G., 2019. "Firms and Farms: The Local Effects of Farm Income on Firms’ Demand," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 1924, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
    24. Narayanamoorthy, A. & Bhattarai, Madhusudan, 2013. "Rural Employment Scheme and Agricultural Wage Rate Nexus: An Analysis across States," Agricultural Economics Research Review, Agricultural Economics Research Association (India), vol. 26(Conferenc).
    25. Himanshu, 2017. "Growth, structural change and wages in India: recent trends," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 60(3), pages 309-331, September.
    26. Alwin D'Souza & Ashok K. Mishra & Stefan Hirsch, 2020. "Enhancing food security through diet quality: The role of nonfarm work in rural India," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 51(1), pages 95-110, January.
    27. Sen Gupta, Abhijit & Bhattacharya, Rudrani, 2016. "What Role Did Rising Demand Play in Driving Food Prices Up?," MPRA Paper 79704, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2017.
    28. Chaudhuri, Sarbajit & Ghosh Dastidar, Krishnendu, 2014. "Corruption, efficiency wage and union leadership," MPRA Paper 57050, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    29. Clément Imbert & John Papp, 2015. "Labor Market Effects of Social Programs: Evidence from India's Employment Guarantee," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 7(2), pages 233-263, April.
    30. Kundu, Amit & Das, Sangita, 2018. "Gender Wage Gap in The Agricultural Labor Market of India: An Empirical Analysis," MPRA Paper 95487, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 10 Feb 2019.
    31. Kartik Misra, 2019. "No Employment without Participation : An Evaluation of India's Employment Program in Eastern Uttar Pradesh," UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers 2019-13, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics.
    32. Bhattacharya, Rudrani & Sen Gupta, Abhijit, 2015. "Food Inflation in India: Causes and Consequences," Working Papers 15/151, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy.
    33. World Bank Group, 2015. "India Development Update, April 2015," World Bank Publications - Reports 21872, The World Bank Group.
    34. Saibal Ghosh, 2019. "Financial inclusion through a public works programme: Does left‐wing extremism make a difference?," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 37(1), pages 19-45, January.
    35. Bhargava, Anil K., 2013. "The Impact of India’s Rural Employment Guarantee on Demand for Agricultural Technology," 2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C. 150163, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    36. Matthew McCartney & Indrajit Roy, 2016. "A Consensus Unravels: NREGA and the Paradox of Rules-Based Welfare in India," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 28(4), pages 588-604, September.
    37. Bussolo,Maurizio & Kotia,Ananya & Sharma,Siddharth, 2021. "Workers at Risk : Panel Data Evidence on the COVID-19 Labor Market Crisis in India," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9584, The World Bank.
    38. Tagat, Anirudh, 2020. "Female matters: Impact of a workfare program on intra-household female decision-making in rural India," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 20(C).
    39. Kartik Misra, 2019. "Is India’s Employment Guarantee Program Successfully Challenging Her Historical Inequalities?," UMASS Amherst Economics Working Papers 2019-09, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Economics.
    40. Laura Zimmermann, 2014. "Public works programs in developing countries have the potential to reduce poverty," IZA World of Labor, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), pages 1-25, May.
    41. Kala Seetharam Sridhar & A.V. Reddy, 2015. "India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS): Wages, Reservation Wages and Programme Participation in Chitradurga District of Karnataka," Management and Labour Studies, XLRI Jamshedpur, School of Business Management & Human Resources, vol. 40(3-4), pages 366-384, August.
    42. Sarbajit Chaudhuri & Sushobhan Mahata & Salonkara Chaudhuri, 2022. "COVID-19 disaster and employment generation program in a developing economy," Journal of Social and Economic Development, Springer;Institute for Social and Economic Change, vol. 24(1), pages 46-64, June.
    43. Lahiri, Bidisha & Daramola, Richard, 2023. "Effects of credit and labor constraints on microenterprises and the unintended impact of changes in household endowments: Use of threshold estimation to detect heterogeneity," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 88(C), pages 21-38.
    44. Andrew D. Foster & Esther Gehrke, 2020. "Start What You Finish! Ex ante risk and schooling investments in the presence of dynamic complementarities," Working Papers 2020-19, Brown University, Department of Economics.
    45. Deininger, Klaus & Liu, Yanyan, 2019. "Heterogeneous welfare impacts of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 98-111.
    46. Sinduja Srinivasan, 2014. "Impact of Public Works on Household Occupational Choice Evidence from NREGS in India," Working Papers WR-1053, RAND Corporation.
    47. Dsouza, Alwin & Mishra, Ashok K. & Tripathi, Amarnath, 2018. "Improving Diet Quality through Off-Farm Work: Empirical Evidence from India," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274494, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    48. Saswati Das, 2016. "Impact of MGNREGA on the livelihood security of rural poor in India: a study using national sample survey data," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(4), pages 420-440, October.
    49. Bhattacharya, Rudrani & Sen Gupta, Abhijit, 2017. "Drivers and Impact of Food Inflation in India," MPRA Paper 88721, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2017.
    50. Misra, Kartik, 2019. "Does historical land inequality attenuate the positive impact of India’s employment guarantee program?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 1-1.
    51. Mushtaq Ahmad Malla, 2020. "MGNREGA in Kashmir: An Analysis of Labour Market Outcomes and Livelihood Security," Indian Journal of Human Development, , vol. 14(3), pages 424-446, December.
    52. Drèze, Jean & Khera, Reetika, 2017. "Recent Social Security Initiatives in India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 98(C), pages 555-572.

  5. Erlend Berg, 2011. "Funeral insurance," CSAE Working Paper Series 2011-16, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.

    Cited by:

    1. Emmanuelle Auriol & Julie Lassébie & Amma Panin & Eva Raiber & Paul Seabright, 2020. "God insures those who pay? Formal insurance and religious offerings in Ghana," Post-Print hal-02872179, HAL.

  6. Erlend Berg & Maitreesh Ghatak & R Manjula & D Rajasekhar & Sanchari Roy, 2011. "Implementing Health Insurance For The Poor: The Rollout Of Rsby In Karnataka," STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series 025, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.

    Cited by:

    1. Manini Ojha, 2022. "Gender gap in schooling: Is there a role for health insurance?," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 34(1), pages 29-54, January.
    2. Chatterjee, Chirantan & Joshi, Radhika & Sood, Neeraj & Boregowda, P., 2018. "Government health insurance and spatial peer effects: New evidence from India," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 196(C), pages 131-141.
    3. Khetrapal, Sonalini & Acharya, Arnab & Mills, Anne, 2019. "Assessment of the public-private-partnerships model of a national health insurance scheme in India," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 243(C).

Articles

  1. Berg, Erlend & Blake, Michael & Morsink, Karlijn, 2022. "Risk sharing and the demand for insurance: Theory and experimental evidence from Ethiopia," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 195(C), pages 236-256.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  2. Erlend Berg & Maitreesh Ghatak & R Manjula & D Rajasekhar & Sanchari Roy, 2019. "Motivating Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance?," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 129(617), pages 110-142.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  3. Berg, Erlend & Bhattacharyya, Sambit & Rajasekhar, D. & Manjula, R., 2018. "Can public works increase equilibrium wages? Evidence from India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 103(C), pages 239-254.

    Cited by:

    1. Chakrabarti, Anindya S. & Mishra, Abinash & Mohaghegh, Mohsen, 2021. "Targeted interventions: Consumption dynamics and distributional effects," IIMA Working Papers WP 2021-09-02, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.
    2. Thiemo Fetzer, 2020. "Can Workfare Programs Moderate Conflict? Evidence from India," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 18(6), pages 3337-3375.
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  1. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (8) 2013-04-27 2013-09-26 2014-04-18 2015-01-09 2015-02-05 2017-01-22 2017-12-03 2021-04-19. Author is listed
  2. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (5) 2013-04-27 2013-09-26 2014-04-18 2015-01-09 2015-02-05. Author is listed
  3. NEP-IAS: Insurance Economics (5) 2011-07-21 2011-10-22 2017-01-22 2017-12-03 2021-04-19. Author is listed
  4. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (5) 2013-04-27 2013-09-26 2014-04-18 2015-01-09 2015-02-05. Author is listed
  5. NEP-MFD: Microfinance (4) 2010-11-06 2011-07-21 2011-10-22 2017-12-03
  6. NEP-AFR: Africa (3) 2010-11-06 2011-10-22 2021-04-19
  7. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (3) 2012-07-08 2015-04-19 2021-04-19
  8. NEP-CTA: Contract Theory and Applications (3) 2013-04-27 2013-09-26 2014-04-18
  9. NEP-DEV: Development (2) 2010-11-06 2015-04-19
  10. NEP-KNM: Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy (2) 2014-04-18 2015-01-09
  11. NEP-CIS: Confederation of Independent States (1) 2011-10-22
  12. NEP-CSE: Economics of Strategic Management (1) 2013-09-26
  13. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (1) 2011-07-21
  14. NEP-HME: Heterodox Microeconomics (1) 2012-07-08
  15. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2012-07-08
  16. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (1) 2012-07-08
  17. NEP-PAY: Payment Systems and Financial Technology (1) 2017-10-08
  18. NEP-RMG: Risk Management (1) 2021-04-19

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