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Kelley","affiliation":"World Bank","email":"erinmkelley@worldbank.org"},{"name":"Gregory Lane","affiliation":"Harris School of Public Policy - University of Chicago","email":"laneg@uchicago.edu"},{"name":"Fatima Zahra","affiliation":"New York University","email":"fz2095@nyu.edu"}],"title_statement":{"idno":"PP_BGD_2022_PRWP-10138_v01","title":"Reproducibility package for The Psychosocial Value of Employment: Evidence from a Refugee Camp","identifiers":[{"type":"doi","identifier":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3886\/E174781V1"}]},"sponsors":[{"name":"Gates Foundation","abbr":"BMGF"}],"acknowledgment_statement":" We are grateful to Emily Breza, Fiona Burlig, Rafael Di Tella, Fred Finan, Reema Hanna, Johannes Haushofer, Sylvan Herskowitz, Dean Karlan, Asim Khwaja, John Loeser, Matt Lowe, Berk Ozler, Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, and participants  at seminars for their helpful comments and suggestions. We gratefully acknowledge financial support the Gates Foundation; the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, awarded through Innovation for Poverty Action\u2019s Peace & Recovery Program, as well as from \u201cBuilding the Evidence on Forced Displacement: A Multi-Stakeholder Partnership,\u201d a program managed by the World Bank Group in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and likewise funded by UK aid from the United Kingdom\u2019s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office. We are extremely thankful to the entire IPA Bangladesh team, and in particular Shadman Rahman for exceptional field management, as well as Pulse Bangladesh, our partner NGO who helped obtain the necessary permissions to offer work opportunities to the participants\nin our study. We are also grateful to Adil Bhatia and Grace Liu for their excellent research assistance. AEA RCT identification number: 0006000. This project received IRB approval from Harvard University (#IRB19-0067). This paper successfully completed a Stage 1 (pre-results) review at the Journal of Development Economics, and we are indebted the reviewers for their valuable feedback.","version_statement":{"version_date":"2022-11"},"abstract":"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. The study involves 745 individuals in a field experiment with three arms: a control arm, a weekly cash arm, and an employment arm of equal value. The findings show that employment raises psychosocial well-being substantially more than cash alone, and 66 percent of the employed are willing to forego cash payments to continue working temporarily for free. Despite material poverty, the individuals in the sample both experience and recognize the nonmonetary, psychosocial value of employment.","geographic_units":[{"name":"Bangladesh","code":"BGD","type":"cty"}],"keywords":[{"name":"Employment"},{"name":"Psychosocial"},{"name":"Refugees"}],"topics":[{"id":"D91","name":"Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making","vocabulary":"JEL Classifications","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php"},{"id":"I31","name":"General Welfare, Well-Being","vocabulary":"JEL Classifications","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php"},{"id":"J22","name":"Time Allocation and Labor Supply","vocabulary":"JEL Classifications","uri":"https:\/\/www.aeaweb.org\/econlit\/jelCodes.php"}],"output":[{"type":"Published Paper","title":"The Psychosocial Value of Employment - Evidence from a Refugee Camp","authors":"Reshmaan Hussam, Erin M. 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The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this event do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank, the Executive Directors of the World Bank, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the materials included in the reproducibility package.","production_date":"2022-11"},"tags":[{"tag":"DOI"},{"tag":"Fully Reproducible"},{"tag":"Open code"},{"tag":"Open data"},{"tag":"Published Paper"}],"schematype":"script"}