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作者：Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Dominguez, Patricio; Perez-Vincent, Santiago M.
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Inter-American Development Bank
摘要：Parenting practices play a crucial role in child development. We evaluate the impact of a free digital stress management and positive parenting intervention designed to improve caregiver's mental health and positive caregiver-child interactions in El Salvador. Drawing on the prior success of in-person interventions, we study the effects of digital intervention delivery and examine differential treatment effects by caregiver's sex. Using an individual-level experiment, we find that the interven...
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作者：Coy, Felipe
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Scholars have highlighted how local elites can use their de facto power to capture democracy. This makes electoral competition particularly vulnerable in armed conflicts driven by politics. Would a reduction in politically motivated violence perpetrated by local elites promote electoral competition? To investigate this, I employ a synthetic difference-in-differences strategy within the setting of Colombia's demobilization of paramilitaries, who were heavily connected with local elites across t...
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作者：Leo, Lorenzo Aldeco; Jurado, Andres; Ramirez-Alvarez, Aurora A.
作者单位：Bank of Mexico; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Colegio de Mexico
摘要：We study how internal migration responds to an increase in criminal violence in the context of Mexico's 2007 War on Drugs. To identify causal effects, we exploit the changes in homicides generated by conflict between drug-trafficking organizations. Instrumental variable regressions show that high skilled individuals are less likely to migrate to a municipality where the homicide rate increased. Conversely, we find out-migration from municipalities that experienced an increase in murders but on...
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作者：Chen, Yutong
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington
摘要：This paper investigates gender gaps in the gig economy of a developing country. Using novel data from a major Chinese online healthcare platform, I show that female physicians charge 2.3% lower prices and provide 11.0% fewer consultations than males. Patients appear to discriminate against female physicians despite them having identical observable productive characteristics to those of male physicians. The differential responses of patients to quality signals from female physicians suggest tha...
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作者：Ma, Meilin; Delgado, Michael S.; Wang, H. Holly
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：Spatial market integration, an important means to increase market efficiency and boost economic development, is often affected by policy changes such as trade liberalization and trade restrictions. With unique weekly data on provincial hog prices, we use the 2018 outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in China and the subsequent ban on cross-province shipment of hogs as a natural experiment to study dynamic spatial mechanisms underlying market integration. We employ a high-dimensional spatial m...
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作者：Dhami, Sanjit; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan
作者单位：University of Leicester; Nankai University
摘要：We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel, rigorous, theoretical model to derive the relevant predictions, which are then tested in lab-in-the-field experiments in the Indian states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. We find strong evidence of the effects of religious identity on the belief hierarchies, and the chosen actions, of Hindu and Mu...
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作者：Cheng, Hua; Ding, Siying; Liu, Yongzheng
作者单位：Zhongnan University of Economics & Law; University of International Business & Economics; Renmin University of China
摘要：Although minimum paid -in capital requirements impede firm entry, governments worldwide have only recently started to reduce or remove such requirements. This study is among the first to examine the effectiveness of an entry deregulation reform in China that eliminated such requirements. We exploit city-year-month variation in reform implementation and employ a large nationwide administrative dataset of firm registrations, finding that the deregulation strongly encourages firm and job creation...
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作者：Jack, B. Kelsey; Jayachandran, Seema; Malagutti, Flavio; Rao, Sarojini
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; Princeton University
摘要：In addition to generating a negative environmental externality, a household's water consumption entails another market failure: household members free-ride off each other and overconsume. The problem stems from consumption being billed at the household level and the difficulty of monitoring one another's consumption. We document the importance of this phenomenon in urban Zambia by combining utility billing records and randomized person-specific price variation. We derive and empirically confir...
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作者：Zappala, Guglielmo
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; Paris School of Economics
摘要：As the climate changes, efficient climate policy requires a better understanding of how individuals adapt. Despite extensive research on various climate adaptation frictions, including financial and technological constraints, models of adaptive decision -making assume that agents have perfect information and accurate beliefs about climate. Combining rural household data in Bangladesh with a meteorological measure of dryness, this paper studies the role of individual drought beliefs and their a...
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作者：Baul, Tushi; Karlan, Dean; Toyama, Kentaro; Vasilaky, Kathryn
作者单位：Northwestern University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; California State University System; California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo; Columbia University
摘要：Providing agricultural advice at scale poses operational challenges. Technology may help if repeating content reinforces learning for recipients and thus improves adoption, but risks reducing efficacy given limited customization and human interaction. We tested videos shared with female farmers in India as a supplement to standard human -provided extension services promoting a climate -smart practice, System Rice Intensification. The average treatment effects are large but imprecise because of...
