2 papers
econ.GN2020
Understanding the Distributional Aspects of Microcredit Expansions
Melvyn Weeks, Tobias Gabel Christiansen
Various poverty reduction strategies are being implemented in the pursuit of eliminating extreme poverty. One such strategy is increased access to microcredit in poor areas around…
econ.GN2018
Causal Tree Estimation of Heterogeneous Household Response to Time-Of-Use Electricity Pricing Schemes
Eoghan O'Neill, Melvyn Weeks
We examine the household-specific effects of the introduction of Time-of-Use (TOU) electricity pricing schemes. Using a causal forest (Athey and Imbens, 2016; Wager and Athey, 2018…