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作者：Pouliquen, Victor
作者单位：University of Essex
摘要：This paper studies the intra-household impact of property rights in micro-enterprises. A randomized field experiment on firm formalization in Benin provides exogenous variation in individual property rights. The results reveal significant gender differences. Women entrepreneurs who formalize invest more in their businesses and are more likely to pay to conceal a large windfall transfer from their husbands-a measure of intra-household inefficiency. These findings suggest that while stronger pro...
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作者：Cali, Massimiliano; Graciano, Simon Caicedo; Ghose, Devaki; Montfaucon, Angella Faith; Ruta, Michele
作者单位：The World Bank; Harvard University; International Monetary Fund
摘要：How does trade policy affect exporters' ability to source intermediate inputs and adjust exports in response to foreign shocks? The analysis exploits new disaggregated, time-varying data on non-tariff measures (NTMs) faced by Indonesian firms. In response to a depreciation of the Yuan, which makes Chinese exports more competitive in third markets, Indonesian firms facing NTMs on their inputs see a much larger drop in their export values compared to firms that do not face any NTMs, with the mag...
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作者：Schmidt, Maika; Moradi, Alexander
作者单位：University of Sussex; Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
摘要：We study the effects of Burkina Faso's large scale electricity grid expansion 2008-2017, using both community and household-level data. We show that the timing of electrification was driven by engineering constraints and thus largely exogenous. We estimate the impact of electrification using a staggered difference-indifferences (DiD) approach, where not-yet treated communities serve as the comparison group. Despite low household connection rates, we find strong positive effects on luminosity, ...
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作者：Bharadwaj, Prashant; Graeber, Daniel; Khoury, Stephanie; Schmid, Christian P. R.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; Leibniz Association; DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：Due to recent conflicts and humanitarian issues, millions of people have sought asylum in countries in Europe. The influx of asylum seekers has sparked debates about the impacts of such migratory flows on resident populations. We study how the recent migration of these forcibly displaced people into Europe affects the mental health of the receiving country residents in Switzerland and Germany. We exploit quasi-random variation in asylum seeker placement by matching settlement data with adminis...
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作者：Trachtman, Carly; Permana, Yudistira Hendra; Sahadewo, Gumilang Aryo
作者单位：CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Gadjah Mada University
摘要：Social assistance programs in developing countries often rely on local community members to identify potential beneficiaries. As community members may observe neighbors' welfare, their reports may capture transitory shocks better than the proxies typically observable by a centralized policy implementer. To test this, we conduct a lab-style experiment in Central Java, in which participants rank other community members' welfare, using benchmarks that vary in sensitivity to transitory shocks, and...
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作者：Gandhi, Vishan; Tan, Brandon Joel
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Harvard University
摘要：This paper measures reliability-whether firms execute transactions on-schedule-for the universe of Rwandan formal firms using transaction timing data and describes the characteristics of reliable firms. Reliable firms have larger interfirm sales, export more, supply exporters and multinationals, and transact with other reliable firms. Reliable firms are less sensitive to supply chain disruptions. Supplying an MNC increases seller reliability even when servicing non-MNC buyers.
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作者：Woo-Mora, L. Guillermo
作者单位：Paris School of Economics
摘要：This paper examines how skin tone shapes intergenerational economic disparities across 25 Latin American and Caribbean countries. First, it analyzes the distribution of ethnoracial identities and skin tone, confirming Mestizo predominance and revealing how broad categories obscure substantial phenotypic diversity. Second, it documents non-linear gaps in income and education, with darker skin tones consistently linked to economic disadvantages. A variance decomposition shows that skin tone expl...
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作者：Zhao, Yu; Yang, Yichen; Zhang, Ning
作者单位：Shandong University; Shandong University; Yonsei University
摘要：This paper analyzes the economic consequences of flood shocks on housing markets in China. By combining detailed housing transaction records with granular geospatial-environmental information, we document robust evidence of heterogeneous impacts of flooding within local housing markets. Specifically, transaction prices and volumes decline in low-lying areas, while prices increase but volumes remain stable in high-elevation areas. These asymmetric responses are largely attributable to the risk-...
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作者：Li, Taipeng; Trimarchi, Lorenzo; Xie, Rui; Yang, Guohao
作者单位：Hunan University; University of Namur; Liaoning University
摘要：Using the 2018-2019 US-China trade war as a quasi-natural experiment, we analyze how rising trade barriers undermine environmental regulation in China through political incentives. Through a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting variation in Chinese prefecture-level exposure to US tariffs, we find more exposed areas significantly reduce environmental regulation emphasis and raise pollution limits. This response operates through political incentives: connected Chinese officials more rea...
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作者：Cordella, Tito; Cufre, Maia; Presbitero, Andrea F.
作者单位：Johns Hopkins University; Northwestern University; International Monetary Fund; Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (Inserm)
摘要：Twenty years after the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief initiative, debt levels in low-income countries are rising again, renewing sustainability concerns. The prevailing view suggests that China and other emerging lenders exploited the HIPC initiative to expand lending. Using a synthetic control method to generate a counterfactual, we find that, contrary to this narrative, China and other emerging lenders reduced net lending after debt relief; only multilateral creditors inc...
