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作者：Allende, Claudio; Luksic, Juan Diego; Navarrete, H. Nicolas
作者单位：Universidad de Chile; City St Georges, University of London
摘要：Educational market integration have become a common practice in various countries, changing potentially student's application and enrollment behavior. We implement a difference-indifference estimation exploiting student's geographic exposure to market integration in Chile to understand student's gain and losses from this process. Using administrative data, we show that the market integration process has no effect on overall university enrollment but changes the enrollment composition: new plat...
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作者：Delius, Antonia; Sterck, Olivier
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of Antwerp
摘要：Theoretically, the welfare effects of cash-based assistance depend on how businesses respond to the demand shock and on resulting effects on prices. Such market effects have been largely overlooked in the literature. In this study, we examine the business and price effects of cash-based assistance to refugees in Kenya. Monthly restricted cash transfers worth 3 to 13 dollars were provided to 400,000 refugees in the form of digital money exclusively usable for food purchases at licensed shops. W...
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作者：Li, Xiaolu; Ma, Lin; Tang, Yang
作者单位：Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications; Singapore Management University; Nanyang Technological University
摘要：We structurally estimate the firm-level frictions across prefectures in China and quantify their aggregate and distributional implications. Based on a general equilibrium model with input and output distortions and migration, we show that the firm-level frictions are less dispersed and less correlated with firm productivity in richer prefectures. Counterfactual exercises show that reducing the within-prefecture misallocation increases aggregate welfare, discourages migration toward large prefe...
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作者：Colleoni, Marco
作者单位：European University Institute
摘要：In Central India, the Narmada River separates two regions that have been ruled by different types of government only during the colonial period, and for reasons independent of their initial economic development. I implement a spatial RDD on village population in the Nineteenth Century as well as in 1901, and I run the same model on proxies of welfare in 2015. My results highlight that divergence has realised where the river overlapped with the colonial border, but not in a neighbouring area wh...
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作者：van der Weide, Roy; Blankespoor, Brian; Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Peter
作者单位：The World Bank; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：This paper assesses the reliability of poverty maps derived from off-the-shelf remote-sensing data. Employing data for Malawi, it first obtains small area estimates of poverty by combining household expenditure survey data with population census data. It then ignores the population census and obtains a second poverty map by combining the survey with predictors of poverty derived from remote sensing data. The two approaches reveal the same patterns in the geography of poverty. However, there ar...
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作者：Huang, Wei; Luo, Mi; Ta, Yuqi; Wang, Boxian
作者单位：Peking University; Peking University; Central University of Finance & Economics
摘要：Using a nationally representative dataset from China, we exploit an event study approach to trace out the consequences of land expropriation on household economic behaviors and health outcomes. The expropriated rural households receive an average compensation per capita of over 6 thousand yuan (60 percent of pre-event income) immediately after expropriation and thus have a higher income level. Among the people in these households, the likelihood of working in the agricultural sector decreases ...
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作者：Martin, Diego A.; Romero, Dario A.
作者单位：Harvard University; New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi
摘要：Did violence increase social distancing and decrease COVID-19 cases? We investigated the effects of massacres on social distancing and subsequent impacts on COVID-19 cases in Colombia. Using an augmented synthetic control method model, we find that massacres reduced human mobility toward parks by six percentage points compared to unaffected areas. However, we did not find significant changes in workplace mobility. Moreover, alterations in social interactions caused by the violence had minimal ...
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作者：Nyqvist, Martina Bjorkman; Jayachandran, Seema; Zipfel, Celine
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; Princeton University
摘要：This study evaluates a communication training program for mothers in Uganda, motivated by prior evidence suggesting that mothers often prioritize children's needs more than fathers. The program aims to enable women to effectively communicate their knowledge and preferences about child health to their husbands, thereby increasing investments in children's health. Using a randomized experiment, we find that the program increases spousal discussion about the family's health, nutrition, and financ...
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作者：Danon, Alice; Das, Jishnu; de Barros, Andreas; Filmer, Deon
作者单位：Harvard University; Georgetown University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); The World Bank
摘要：We assess the reliability and validity of cognitive and socioemotional skills measures and investigate the correlation between schooling, skills acquisition, and labor earnings. Our primary data from Pakistan incorporate two innovations related to measurement and sampling. With regard to measurement, we developed and implemented a battery of instruments intended to capture cognitive and socioemotional skills among young adults. With regard to sampling, we use a panel that follows respondents f...
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作者：DeStefano, Timothy; Timmis, Jonathan
作者单位：Georgetown University; The World Bank
摘要：Robots are becoming a key part of manufacturing in developed and emerging economies. This paper examines how automation can affect international trade through quality upgrading. The effects of robot use on export quality are estimated, by combining cross-country and cross -industry data on industrial robots with detailed Harmonized System 10 -digit trade data. Robot diffusion in (preexisting) foreign customers is used as an instrumental variable to predict robot adoption in the home country -i...
