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作者：Berlanda, Andrea; Cervellati, Matteo; Esposito, Elena; Rohner, Dominic; Sunde, Uwe
作者单位：University of Padua; University of Bologna; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Lausanne; University of Munich; University of Turin; Collegio Carlo Alberto
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作者：Xing, Jing; Bilicka, Katarzyna; Hou, Xipei; Raei, Sepideh
作者单位：Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Utah System of Higher Education; Utah State University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
摘要：We investigate the impact of tax cascading on upstream and downstream firms. As a natural experiment, we explore a reform that replaced turnover taxes with value-added taxes for service industries in China, which effectively removed tax cascading. We find a relative increase in sales, R&D investment, and employment for affected service firms. These changes are mainly driven by increased outsourcing from manufacturing firms, and are unlikely to be caused by changes in firms' tax burden or outpu...
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作者：Bahia, Kalvin; Castells, Pau; Cruz, Genaro; Masaki, Takaaki; Pedros, Xavier; Pfutze, Tobias; Rodriguez-Castelan, Carlos; Winkler, Hernan
作者单位：The World Bank; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household welfare in Nigeria. The analysis exploits a unique data set that integrates a longitudinal household survey with information from Nigerian mobile operators on the deployment of mobile broadband internet between 2010 and 2016. Overall, estimates show that mobile broadband coverage had large and positive impacts on household consumption thereby reducing poverty significantly. This effect is if anything stronger among poor...
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作者：Baysan, Ceren; Dar, Manzoor H.; Emerick, Kyle; Li, Zhimin; Sadoulet, Elisabeth
作者单位：University of Toronto; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; CGIAR; International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT); Tufts University; Peking University; Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School (PKU Shenzhen); University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We use unique data on daily labor -market outcomes for Indian casual workers to study labor reallocation between agricultural and non-agricultural activities within rural areas. Controlling for both individual timeinvariant attributes and time -varying shocks, we find that workers who switch sectors across years or even within a week can obtain 23% higher wages by taking non-agricultural jobs. We then estimate a discrete choice model of daily labor allocation that decomposes preferences for jo...
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作者：van der Weide, Roy; Lakner, Christoph; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon; Narayan, Ambar; Gupta, Rakesh
作者单位：The World Bank; The World Bank; The World Bank
摘要：Using individual data from over 400 household surveys, this paper compiles a global database of intergenerational mobility in education for 153 countries covering 97 percent of the world's population. Intergenerational mobility in education is estimated to be lower in the average developing country than in the average high-income country. Children in the developing world have been less successful at surpassing their parents' education, despite the lower levels of parental education. The poorer...
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作者：Burlando, Alfredo; Chintagunta, Pradeep; Goldberg, Jessica; Graboyes, Melissa; Hangoma, Peter; Karlan, Dean; Macis, Mario; Prina, Silvia
作者单位：University of Oregon; University of Chicago; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Zambia; Northwestern University; Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA); Johns Hopkins University; Northeastern University
摘要：During public health emergencies, spreading accurate information and increasing adherence to recommended behaviors is critical for communal welfare. However, uncertainty, mistrust, and misinformation can slow the adoption of best practices. Preexisting social networks can amplify and endorse information from authorities, and technology makes peer-to-peer messaging scalable and fast. Using text messages and small cash incentives, we test a peer-based information campaign to encourage adherence ...
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作者：Beg, Sabrin; Islam, Mahnaz; Rahman, Khandker Wahedur
作者单位：University of Delaware; University of Oxford; Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee BRAC; BRAC University
摘要：We use a field experiment in Bangladesh to test if two types of variety-specific fertilizer recommendations - government provided, community-level recommendations and plot-specific recommendations based on individual soil tests - affect fertilizer use, yield, and profits. The treatments have a limited effect on quantity of most fertilizer types used by farmers. One exception is the case of TSP (phosphate fertilizer), which is recommended for all varieties but recommended quantities are signifi...
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作者：Wang, Di; Zhang, Peng; Chen, Shuai; Zhang, Ning
作者单位：China Agricultural University; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Zhejiang University; Zhejiang University; Shandong University; University of Cambridge
摘要：Causal evidence for adaptation effects of specific agricultural instruments is scant but important for identifying potentially useful adaptive measures for climate change in the future. To address this gap, we leverage quasi-experimental variations in irrigation induced by a natural experiment for irrigation expansion started in 1996 and quantify the contribution of irrigation access to the overall adaptation effect. There are three primary findings. First, using a period-specific panel fixed ...
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作者：Xie, Enze; Xu, Mingzhi; Yu, Miaojie
作者单位：Zhejiang University; Peking University; Liaoning University of Technology
摘要：This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on the heterogeneity of labor market power among manufacturing firms, which is a potential source of misallocation. The model shows that heterogeneity of labor market power distorts the allocation of the factors of production, and the variance in the natural log of the markdown serves as a sufficient statistic to infer its negative impact on overall production efficiency. Using China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a na...
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作者：Schwank, Hanna
摘要：Millions of families migrate every year in search of better opportunities. Whether these opportunities materialize for the children brought with them depends on the quality of the destination that their parents selected. Exploiting variation in the age of migration, I analyze the impact of destination quality on the educational outcomes of childhood internal migrants in Indonesia. Using Population Census microdata from 2000 and 2010, I show that children who spend more time growing up in distr...
