Suchergebnisse

Employment may be important to well-being for reasons beyond its role as an income source. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in refugee camps in Bangladesh. We involve 745 individuals in a field experiment with three arms: a control arm, a weekly cash arm, and an employment arm of equal value. Employment raises psychosocial well-being substantially more than cash alone, and 66 percent of the employed are willing to forgo cash payments to continue working temporarily for free. Despite material poverty, those in our context both experience and recognize a nonmonetary, psychosocial value to employment. (JEL C93, D91, I31, J15, J22, O15)

Part of the WAS3ABi was supported by the Rare Isotope Science Project which is funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEST) and National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea (2013M7A1A1075764). This work was partially supported by KAKENHI (Grants No. 25247045), the RIKEN Foreign Research Program, the SpanishMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovacin (Contracts No. FPA 2009-13377-C02 and No. FPA2011-29854-C04), the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357, under the auspices of the NNSA of the U.S. DOE at Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No. DE AC52-06NA25396, the NASA Grant No. NNX10AH78G, the National Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korean Government (Grants No. NRF-2009-0093817, No. NRF-2015R1D1A1A01056918, No. NRF-2016 R1A5A1013277, and No. NRF-2013R1A1A2063017), and the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund OTKA Contract No. K100835.

This research was supported in part by the Australian Research Council grant numbers DP140102986 and DP170101673, and was partially supported by the International Joint Research Promotion Program of Osaka University and JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP17H02893. This work is also based on the research supported partly by National Research Foundation of South Africa (118645, 90741). J.T.H.D., A.A., B.J.C., M.S.M.G., T.J.G., B.P.M., and B.P.E.T. acknowledge support of the Australian Government Research Training Program. Support for the ANU Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility operations through the Australian National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy program is acknowledged.