scholarly journals Can employment reduce lawlessness and rebellion? A field experiment with high-risk men in a fragile state

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Blattman ◽  
Richard Peck ◽  
Patryk Perkowski ◽  
Keesler Welch ◽  
Shammi Quddus
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Fragile State

scholarly journals Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State

2016 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER BLATTMAN ◽  
JEANNIE ANNAN
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Fragile State ◽  
Rubber Plantations ◽  
Employment Programs

States and aid agencies use employment programs to rehabilitate high-risk men in the belief that peaceful work opportunities will deter them from crime and violence. Rigorous evidence is rare. We experimentally evaluate a program of agricultural training, capital inputs, and counseling for Liberian ex-fighters who were illegally mining or occupying rubber plantations. Fourteen months after the program ended, men who accepted the program offer increased their farm employment and profits, and shifted work hours away from illicit activities. Men also reduced interest in mercenary work in a nearby war. Finally, some men did not receive their capital inputs but expected a future cash transfer instead, and they reduced illicit and mercenary activities most of all. The evidence suggests that illicit and mercenary labor supply responds to small changes in returns to peaceful work, especially future and ongoing incentives. But the impacts of training alone, without capital, appear to be low.

scholarly journals Can employment reduce lawlessness and rebellion? A field experiment with high-risk men in a fragile state

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Blattman ◽  
Richard Peck ◽  
Patryk Perkowski ◽  
Keesler Welch ◽  
Shammi Quddus
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Fragile State

scholarly journals Information Avoidance and Medical Screening: A Field Experiment in China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yufeng Li ◽  
Juanjuan Meng ◽  
Changcheng Song ◽  
Kai Zheng
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Transaction Cost ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Medical Screening ◽  
Information Avoidance ◽  
Subjective Beliefs ◽  
Price Increases

Will individuals, especially high-risk individuals, avoid a disease test because of information avoidance? We conduct a field experiment to investigate this issue. We vary the price of a diabetes test (price experiment) and offer both a diabetes test and a cancer test (disease experiment) after eliciting participants’ subjective beliefs about their disease risk. We find evidence that, first, some people avoid the test even when there is neither a monetary nor a transaction cost, and second, both low- and high-risk individuals select out of the test as the price increases. We explain our findings using three classes of models of anticipatory utility. This paper was accepted by Yan Chen, decision analysis.

A Community Based High Risk Register for Hearing Loss

1982 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Fitch ◽  
Thomas F. Williams ◽  
Josephine E. Etienne
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
System Identification ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Auditory Signal ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Children With Hearing Loss

The critical need to identify children with hearing loss and provide treatment at the earliest possible age has become increasingly apparent in recent years (Northern & Downs, 1978). Reduction of the auditory signal during the critical language-learning period can severely limit the child's potential for developing a complete, effective communication system. Identification and treatment of children having handicapping conditions at an early age has gained impetus through the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) projects funded by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (BEH).

A Community Based High Risk Register for Hearing Loss

1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-110
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Community Based

For the November 1982 JSHD article, "A Community Based High Risk Register for Hearing Loss," the author would like to acknowledge three additional individuals who made valuable contributions to the study. They are Marie Carrier, Gene Lyon, and Bobbie Robertson.

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