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作者：Ambler, Kate; de Brauw, Alan; Godlonton, Susan
作者单位：CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Williams College
摘要：We examine a program designed to alleviate credit, information, and farm management constraints among smallholder cash crop farmers through transfers and a cross-randomized program offering intensive agricultural extension. We document strong complementarities between the two sets of interventions. Investment driven by increased labor expenditures, production, and consumption are highest for farmers that received both transfers and intensive extension, a pattern that persists two and three yea...
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作者：Cisse, Abdoulaye; de Janvry, Alain; Ferguson, Joel; Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco; Mbaye, Samba; Sadoulet, Elisabeth; Syll, Mame Mor Anta
作者单位：The World Bank; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Universite Gaston Berger
摘要：Expanding irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa is widely viewed as a promising strategy for closing yield gaps and enhancing resilience to climate change. Drawing on more than 3,000 satellite images over a 30-year period, we examine the impact of irrigation infrastructure development in the Senegal River Valley. We find that cultivation rates increase substantially following irrigation project completion. Cultivation rates are remarkably stable at around 25 percentage points above pre-irrigation l...
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作者：Herr, Annika; Karimi, Soschia; Wichert, Julian
作者单位：Leibniz University Hannover
摘要：A growing body of literature indicates that heat stress and precipitation deficiencies can pose a critical threat to human health, particularly in less developed countries with low coping capacities and high exposure. The aims of this study are twofold. First, we shed light on the recall of drought events in rural Thailand by linking longitudinal survey data with objective meteorological data. Here, an anomaly in the survey design serves as a natural experiment. We find that a shorter time int...
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作者：Aguilar-Gomez, Sandra; Arceo-Gomez, Eva O.; Toledo, Elia De la Cruz
作者单位：Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas A.C. (CIDE); Loyola Marymount University
摘要：The adverse effects of motherhood on market work are a persistent source of gender inequality. Using high-frequency data from Mexico, we unveil the dynamics of households' time budgets around childbirth. Mothers' disproportionate increases in unpaid work hours-which rise by more than 9 h per week more than men's- offset their decreased labor supply. A 5-hour gender gap in total productive time originates after childbirth. Other women in the household, including girls, adjust their time allocat...
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作者：Bazzi, Sam; Cortes, Patricia; Rapoport, Hillel; Yang, Dean
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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...
