Search Results - "Vishwanath, Tara"

The evolution of poor food access over the course of the conflict in Yemen by Tandon, Sharad, Vishwanath, Tara

“…•The geographic location of violence has been used to target food assistance during active conflict.•Food access is not strongly related to the geographic…”
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How well is humanitarian assistance targeted in fragile environments? Evidence from the announcement of a food emergency in Yemen by Tandon, Sharad, Vishwanath, Tara

“…•Food assistance increased in Yemen after the UN announced a food emergency in 2017.•The increase in food assistance led to moderate improvements in food…”
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Making Data Count: Estimating a Poverty Trend for Nigeria between 2009 and 2019 by Lain, Jonathan, Schoch, Marta, Vishwanath, Tara

“…Abstract Monitoring poverty reduction requires frequent microdata on household welfare that can be compared over time. Such data are unavailable in many…”
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How Much Does the Food Insecurity Experience Scale Overlap with Poor Food Consumption and Monetary Poverty? Evidence from West Africa by Lain, Jonathan, Tandon, Sharad, Vishwanath, Tara

“…The Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES), which combines three food-access dimensions into a single indicator, is rapidly being incorporated into national…”
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Do wage subsidies provide a stepping-stone to employment for recent college graduates?: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Jordan by Groh, Matthew, Krishnan, Nandini, McKenzie, David J, Vishwanath, Tara

“…This study examines the impact of a randomized experiment in Jordan in which female community college graduates were assigned to receive a wage subsidy…”
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Reducing Information Asymmetries in the Youth Labor Market of Jordan with Psychometrics and Skill Based Tests by Groh, Matthew, McKenzie, David, Vishwanath, Tara

“…Jordan’s labor market for educated youth is characterized by high levels of unemployment, long periods of job search, and firms complaining that youth often…”
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Testing the importance of search frictions and matching through a randomized experiment in Jordan by Groh, Matthew, McKenzie, David, Shammout, Nour, Vishwanath, Tara

“…We test the role of search and matching frictions in explaining the high unemployment of tertiary-educated youth in Jordan through a randomized experiment…”
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Optimal Orderings for Parallel Project Selection by Vishwanath, Tara

“…Suppose there are a finite number n of activities or projects, each yielding an unknown reward at an uncertain time. Several m (< n) projects may be undertaken…”
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The impact of soft skills training on female youth employment: Evidence from a randomized experiment in Jordan by Groh, Matthew, Krishnan, Nandini, McKenzie, David, Vishwanath, Tara

“…Employers around the world complain that youth lack the soft skills needed for success in the workplace. In response, a number of employment programs have…”
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Migration with endogenous moving costs by Carrington, W.J. (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.), Detragiache, E, Vishwanath, T

“…We study a dynamic model of labor migration in which moving costs decrease with the number of migrants already settled in the destination. This assumption is…”
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Toward Transparency: New Approaches and Their Application to Financial Markets by Vishwanath, Tara, Kaufmann, Daniel

“…The Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s not only highlighted the welfare consequences of transparency in the financial sector but also linked this…”
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Identifying Pockets of Poverty: Insights from Poverty Mapping Experiments in Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal by Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis, Lanjouw, Peter, Vishwanath, Tara, Yoshida, Nobuo

“…This paper applies statistical procedures to combine census and household survey data in order to estimate poverty at the sub-state level in Andhra Pradesh,…”
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Job Search, Stigma Effect, and Escape Rate from Unemployment by Vishwanath, Tara

“…This article formulates job search models, incorporating certain types of the "stigma" effect of unemployment. It is assumed that the probability of getting a…”
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Information flow, job search, and migration by Vishwanath, T

“…"In this paper, an individual model of rural-urban migration is studied, emphasizing the effects of information flow and urban wage dispersion. Migration is…”
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Symposium on estimation of poverty and identifying the poor by Gangopadhyay, Shubhashis, Lanjouw, Peter, Vishwanath, Tara, Yoshida, Nobuo, Alagh, Yoginder K, Datta, K L, Raveendran, G, Kannan, K P, Isaac, T.M. Thomas, Ramakumar, R, Swaminathan, Madhura, Shah, Ghanshyam, Breman, Jan, Rao, V M, Mazumdar, Pauline M.H.

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Parallel Search for the Best Alternative by Vishwanath, Tara

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Parallel Search and Information Gathering by Vishwanath, Tara

“…Parallel search and information-gathering problems, in general, are computationally complex, and there has been little research work in this field. However, in…”
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Assessing the Role of Government-led Microcredit by DE LA TORRE, JORDI, GINÉ, XAVIER, VISHWANATH, TARA

“…Using survey data collected in 2007 from three districts in Andhra Pradesh, this article assesses the performance of 72 primary agricultural credit…”
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Declining reservation wages and learning by Burdett, Kenneth, Vishwanath, Tara

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Declining Reservation Wages and Learning by Burdett, Kenneth, Vishwanath, Tara

“…Empirical studies of job search strongly suggest that the reservation wages of unemployed job seeking individuals decline with the length of their respective…”
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