| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24264 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24264 |
| Aspiration Adaptation in Resource-Constrained Environments | |
| Sebastian Galiani; Paul J. Gertler; Raimundo Undurraga | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-01-29 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We use a multi-country field experiment that combines random variation at the treatment level with exogenous variation in the length of exposure to treatment to test the effect of a slum-housing intervention on the evolution of housing aspirations of untreated co-resident neighbors over time. Initially after treatment, we observe a huge control- treatment housing gap in favor of treated units. As a result, non-treated households' aspirations to upgrade their dwelling are significantly higher compared to the treatment group, suggesting that they aspire to “keep-up” with the treated Joneses', as in standard models of peer effects. However, eight months later, no effects are found on housing investments and the aspirational effect completely disappears. Estimates based on a structural model of aspiration adaptation show that the decay rate is 38% per month. Our evidence suggests that simply fostering higher aspirations may be insufficient to encourage forward-looking behavior among the poor. |
| 主题 | Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24264 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581938 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sebastian Galiani,Paul J. Gertler,Raimundo Undurraga. Aspiration Adaptation in Resource-Constrained Environments. 2018. |
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| w24264.pdf（1892KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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