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Cyrus Samii
Researcher at New York University
Publications - 78
Citations - 2773
Cyrus Samii is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Causal inference & Estimator. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 73 publications receiving 2145 citations. Previous affiliations of Cyrus Samii include Columbia University.
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Civil War and Social Cohesion: Lab‐in‐the‐Field Evidence from Nepal
TL;DR: This article studied the effects of war violence on social cohesion in the context of Nepal's 10-year civil war and found that violence-affected communities exhibit higher levels of prosocial motivation, measured by altruistic giving, public good contributions, investment in trust-based transactions, and willingness to reciprocate trustbased investments.
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The impact of land property rights interventions on investment and agricultural productivity in developing countries: a systematic review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a systematic review on the effects of land tenure recognition interventions on agricultural productivity, income, investment and other relevant outcomes, and synthesised findings from 20 quantitative studies and nine qualitative studies that passed a methodological screening.
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Estimating average causal effects under general interference, with application to a social network experiment
Peter M. Aronow,Cyrus Samii +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a randomization-based framework for estimating causal effects under interference between units motivated by challenges that arise in analyzing experiments on social networks is presented. But the experimental design is different from ours.
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Effects of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) on Deforestation and Poverty in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review
Cyrus Samii,Matthew Lisiecki,Parashar Kulkarni,Laura Paler,Larry Chavis,Birte Snilstveit,Martina Vojtkova,Emma Gallagher +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of institutional and social conditions was discussed in the context of PES interventions and the effect of these conditions on the outcomes of the intervention on the human welfare outcomes.
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The Impact of Land Property Rights Interventions on Investment and Agricultural Productivity in Developing Countries: a Systematic Review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a systematic review on the effects of land tenure recognition interventions on agricultural productivity, income, investment and other relevant outcomes, and synthesised findings from 20 quantitative studies and nine qualitative studies that passed a methodological screening.