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100			_aHussam, Reshmaan, et al _935988
245			_aThe psychosocial value of employment: Evidence from a refugee camp
260			_aThe American Economic Review
300			_a112(11), Nov, 2022: p.3694-3724
520			_aEmployment 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.- Reproduced
773			_aThe American Economic Review
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