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    The Jews in Medieval Egypt / (2021)
    Boston, MA :Academic Studies Press,
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    Format: 1 online resource (328 p.)
    ISBN: 9781618117489 , 9783110743210
    Series Statement: The Lands and Ages of the Jewish People
    Content: Jews lived in Egypt over many centuries, from biblical times until the middle of the previous century. Nevertheless, Jewish life in medieval Islamic Egypt was for many years an obscure and understudied theme. The present book offers the reader a wide-ranging picture of Jewish life in medieval Egypt as depicted by most recent scholarship. Starting from the last phases of the Byzantine era and ending with the Mamluk period, the book presents a scholarly yet vivid description of Jewish communal organization, judiciary, economic frameworks, family life, and lingual practices, as well as religious and literary activities of the medieval Jews of Egypt.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , 1 Between the Hellenistic World and the Cairo Genizah: The Jewish Community in Late Antique Egypt -- , 2 A Concise History of Islamic Egypt -- , 3 The Community's Borders; Converts and Renegades -- , 4 Communal Self-Government: The Genizah Period -- , 5 Introduction to the Legal Arena -- , 6 Jewish Economic Life in Medieval Egypt: Images, Theories, and Research -- , 7 Jewish Family Life in Medieval Egypt -- , 8 Situating Egyptian Pietism -- , 9 Languages and Language Varieties Used by Medieval Egyptian Jews -- , 10 Hebrew Poetry in Medieval Egypt -- , 11 The Jews in Medieval Egypt under the Mamluks (1250-1517) -- , Bibliography -- , Index , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.
    In: Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110743210
    In: DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2, De Gruyter, 9783110743357
    In: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754001
    In: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753776
    In: EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754193
    In: EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753974
    Language: English
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618117489
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781618117489
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  • 2
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    Endowment effects and usage of financial products : field evidence from Malawi (2018)
    Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, Development Economics, Development Research Group
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    gbv_1040790445
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 31 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 8576
    Content: When offered a choice between two savings accounts, prior account holders are significantly less likely to switch to a cheaper account, compared with new subjects without a prior account. While 49 percent of account holders retained their original, expensive accounts, none of the new subjects who opened an account chose the expensive one. This finding is consistent with the "endowment effect." Exploiting previous experimental variation in account usage among prior account holders, the paper finds that the endowment effect disappears among those with higher induced usage. This finding suggests that familiarity with the account can mitigate behavioral anomalies and improve financial decision-making
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gine, Xavier Endowment Effects and Usage of Financial Products: Field Evidence from Malawi Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2018
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8576
    URL: Volltext  (Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
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  • 3
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    Identification strategy : a field experiment on dynamic incentives in rural credit markets (2010)
    Washington, D.C., : The World Bank,
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    almafu_9958246197802883
    Format: 1 online resource (43 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: How do borrowers respond to improvements in a lender's ability to punish defaulters? This paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment in rural Malawi that examines the impact of fingerprinting borrowers in a context where a unique identification system is absent. Fingerprinting allows the lender to more effectively use dynamic repayment incentives: withholding future loans from past defaulters while rewarding good borrowers with better loan terms. Consistent with a simple model of borrower heterogeneity and information asymmetries, fingerprinting led to substantially higher repayment rates for borrowers with the highest ex ante default risk, but had no effect for the rest of the borrowers. The change in repayment rates is driven by reductions in adverse selection (smaller loan sizes) and lower moral hazard (for example, less diversion of loan-financed fertilizer from its intended use on the cash crop).
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5438
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    Identification strategy : a field experiment on dynamic incentives in rural credit markets (2010)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    b3kat_BV048264881
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (43 p)
    Content: How do borrowers respond to improvements in a lender's ability to punish defaulters? This paper reports the results of a randomized field experiment in rural Malawi that examines the impact of fingerprinting borrowers in a context where a unique identification system is absent. Fingerprinting allows the lender to more effectively use dynamic repayment incentives: withholding future loans from past defaulters while rewarding good borrowers with better loan terms. Consistent with a simple model of borrower heterogeneity and information asymmetries, fingerprinting led to substantially higher repayment rates for borrowers with the highest ex ante default risk, but had no effect for the rest of the borrowers. The change in repayment rates is driven by reductions in adverse selection (smaller loan sizes) and lower moral hazard (for example, less diversion of loan-financed fertilizer from its intended use on the cash crop)
    Additional Edition: Goldberg, Jessica Identification strategy
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5438
    URL: Volltext  (kostenfrei)
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  • 5
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    Trade and institutions in the medieval Mediterranean : the geniza merchants and their business world (2012)
    Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,
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    almahu_9947414221102882
    Format: 1 online resource (xxi, 426 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
    ISBN: 9780511794209 (ebook)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in economic history. Second series
    Content: The Geniza merchants of the eleventh-century Mediterranean - sometimes called the 'Maghribi traders' - are central to controversies about the origins of long-term economic growth and the institutional bases of trade. In this book, Jessica Goldberg reconstructs the business world of the Geniza merchants, maps the shifting geographic relationships of the medieval Islamic economy and sheds new light on debates about the institutional framework for later European dominance. Commercial letters, business accounts and courtroom testimony bring to life how these medieval traders used personal gossip and legal mechanisms to manage far-flung agents, switched business strategies to manage political risks and asserted different parts of their fluid identities to gain advantage in the multicultural medieval trading world. This book paints a vivid picture of the everyday life of Jewish merchants in Islamic societies and adds new depth to debates about medieval trading institutions with unique quantitative analyses and innovative approaches.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , 1. Introduction: two tales -- Part I. Institutions: 2. Merchants in their community; 3. The uses of commercial correspondence; 4. The nature of merchants' trade; 5. The human landscape: business relationships, institutions of law and government; 6. Conclusion to Part I -- Part II. Geographies: 7. The geography of information; 8. Commodities in a regional market; 9. Individual geographies of trade; 10. The contracting geography of the eleventh-century merchant network; 11. Conclusion: the Mediterranean through the eyes of Geniza merchants.
    Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781107005471
    Language: English
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511794209
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  • 6
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    Are rural road investments alone sufficient to generate transport flows? : Lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Malawi and policy implications (2011)
    Washington, D.C., : The World Bank,
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    edocfu_9958246489002883
    Format: 1 online resource (24 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: This paper draws lessons from an original randomized experiment in Malawi. In order to understand why roads in relatively good condition in rural areas may not be used by buses, a minibus service was subsidized over a six-month period over a distance of 20 kilometers to serve five villages. Using randomly allocated prices for use of the bus, this experiment demonstrates that at very low prices, bus usage is high. Bus usage decreases rapidly with increased prices. However, based on the results on take-up and minibus provider surveys, the experiment demonstrates that at any price, low (with high usage) or high (with low usage), a bus service provider never breaks even on this road. This can contribute to explain why walking or cycling is so widespread on most rural roads in Sub-Saharan Africa. In terms of policy implications, this experiment explains that motorized services need to be subsidized; otherwise a road in good condition will most probably not lead to provision of service at an affordable price for the local population.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5535
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  • 7
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    Savings Defaults and Payment Delays for Cash Transfers : Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi (2016)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
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    UID:
    almafu_9958143916202883
    Format: 1 online resource (52 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: Financial products and transfer schemes are often designed to help individuals improve welfare by following through on intertemporal plans. This paper implements an artefactual field experiment in Malawi to test the ability of households to manage a cash windfall. This study varies whether 474 households receive a payment in cash or through direct deposit into pre-established accounts at a local bank. Payments are made immediately, with one day delay, or with eight days delay. Defaulting the payments into savings accounts leads to higher bank account balances, an effect that persists for several weeks. However, neither savings defaults nor payment delays affect the amount or composition of spending, suggesting that households manage cash effectively without the use of formal financial products.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7807
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  • 8
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    Direct and Indirect Effects of Malawi's Public Works Program on Food Security / (2015)
    Washington, D.C. :The World Bank,
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    almafu_9958143945102883
    Format: 1 online resource (58 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: Labor-intensive public works programs are important social protection tools in low-income settings, intended to supplement income of poor households and improve public infrastructure. In this evaluation of the Malawi Social Action Fund, an at-scale, government-operated program, across- and within-village randomization is used to estimate effects on food security and use of fertilizer. There is no evidence that the program improves food security, and some negative spillovers to untreated households. These disappointing results hold even under modifications to the design of the program to offer work during the lean rather than harvest season or increase the frequency of payments.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7505
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  • 9
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    Revising Commitments : Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices (2012)
    Washington, D.C., : The World Bank,
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    UID:
    almafu_9958246448402883
    Format: 1 online resource (58 pages)
    Series Statement: NBER working paper series no. w18065
    Content: The very poor in developing countries often make intertemporal choices that seem at odds with their individual self-interest. There are many possible reasons why. This paper investigates several of these reasons with a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural Malawi involving large stakes. It makes two contributions. First, it constructs a new dependent variable: revisions of prior choices regarding the allocation of future income. This allows us to directly examine intertemporal choice revision and its determinants. In particular, this dependent variable permits a novel test for the existence of self-control problems. It turns out revisions of money allocations toward the present are positively associated with measures of present-bias from an earlier baseline survey, as well as the (randomly assigned) closeness in time to the first possible date of money disbursement. Second, the paper investigates other potential determinants of revision, aside from self-control problems. It finds little evidence that revisions of money allocations toward the present are associated with spousal preferences for such revision, household shocks or the financial sophistication of respondents.
    Note: May 2012.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6093
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  • 10
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    Are rural road investments alone sufficient to generate transport flows? : Lessons from a randomized experiment in rural Malawi and policy implications (2011)
    Washington, D.C., : The World Bank,
    Details
    UID:
    almafu_9958246489002883
    Format: 1 online resource (24 pages)
    Series Statement: Policy research working papers.
    Content: This paper draws lessons from an original randomized experiment in Malawi. In order to understand why roads in relatively good condition in rural areas may not be used by buses, a minibus service was subsidized over a six-month period over a distance of 20 kilometers to serve five villages. Using randomly allocated prices for use of the bus, this experiment demonstrates that at very low prices, bus usage is high. Bus usage decreases rapidly with increased prices. However, based on the results on take-up and minibus provider surveys, the experiment demonstrates that at any price, low (with high usage) or high (with low usage), a bus service provider never breaks even on this road. This can contribute to explain why walking or cycling is so widespread on most rural roads in Sub-Saharan Africa. In terms of policy implications, this experiment explains that motorized services need to be subsidized; otherwise a road in good condition will most probably not lead to provision of service at an affordable price for the local population.
    Language: English
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5535
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