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作者：Gebresilasse, Mesay
作者单位：Amherst College
摘要：Low agricultural productivity is a persistent challenge for developing economies. Expansions of rural roads and agricultural extension, separately, have been proposed as solutions with mixed effectiveness. In this paper, I show that it is critical to consider roads and extension together due to their strong complementarities. I study the concurrent but independent expansions of rural roads and extension in Ethiopia, and find that, while ineffective in isolation, access to both a road and exten...
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作者：Gazeaud, Jules; Khan, Nausheen; Mvukiyehe, Eric; Sterck, Olivier
作者单位：Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB); American University Cairo; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universite Clermont Auvergne (UCA); The World Bank; Duke University; University of Oxford; University of Antwerp
摘要：Is it possible to stimulate women's income-generating activities by relaxing their financial and human capital constraints? Does involving husbands help or hinder the effort? We examine these questions using a three-arm randomized-controlled trial with 2000 women in Tunisia. Women in the two treatment arms were offered a large cash grant (worth USD768 in PPP terms) and a gender-sensitive financial training. In one of the treatment arms, women were additionally encouraged to bring their male pa...
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作者：Dasgupta, Aparajita; Majid, Farhan; Orman, Wafa Hakim
作者单位：Ashoka University; American Institutes for Research; University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Huntsville
摘要：We study the impact of beef sale and possession bans in India on women's anemia by leveraging a natural experiment arising from the state-level rollout of beef bans. We hypothesize that these bans differentially affect groups that traditionally eat beef - Muslims, Christians, and Scheduled-Caste Hindus. We compile rich data on beef-ban legislation by states over time and harmonize them with household and individual level data on biomarkers and consumption. Estimating a triple difference-in-dif...
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作者：Kubilay, Elif; Raiber, Eva; Spantig, Lisa; Cahlikova, Jana; Kaaria, Lucy
作者单位：University of Essex; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Aix-Marseille Universite; RWTH Aachen University; University of Bonn; University of Nairobi
摘要：The expansion of digital financial services leads to severe consumer protection issues such as fraud and scams. As these potentially decrease trust in digital services, especially in developing countries, avoiding victimization has become an important policy objective. In an online experiment, we first investigate how well individuals in Kenya identify phone scams using a novel measure of scam identification ability. We then test the effectiveness of scam education, a commonly used approach by...
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作者：Seim, Brigitte; Jablonski, Ryan; Ahlback, Johan
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
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作者：Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Molina, Teresa; Nyshadham, Anant; Tamayo, Jorge; Torres, Nicolas
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Hawaii System; University of Hawaii Manoa; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Harvard University
摘要：The health effects of dirty(fossil fuel driven) energy production are difficult to measure accurately due to the endogeneity of fuel choice. We exploit an electricity policy in Colombia that generates a price-based trigger for the use of thermal energy sources. Comparing municipalities near high versus low capacity plants, we first document that the activation of this trigger - which increased thermal energy production - led to significantly higher local pollution levels. This change increased...
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作者：Foltz, Jeremy; Li, Kangli
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Amazon.com
摘要：Petty corruption in the developing world impedes citizens from receiving public services and operating their businesses. In this paper, we show the importance of market structure in determining a corruption equilibrium. We do this in the context of highway merchandise transportation in West Africa, where checkpoint officials frequently stop truck drivers for petty bribes. We exploit a road system with two alternative corridors to develop a model which predicts that checkpoints in the two compe...
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作者：Beam, Emily A.
作者单位：University of Vermont
摘要：Online technologies enable lower-cost, rapid data collection, but concerns about sample composition biases and mode-specific measurement error impede their use. I conduct a randomized experiment in the Philippines to test the effectiveness of web-form and chatbot surveys of K-12 teachers recruited through social media and compare their effectiveness with phone surveys of teachers recruited from a pre-existing frame. Chatbot surveys yield higher response rates and higher-quality data than web-f...
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作者：Amarasinghe, Ashani
作者单位：University of Sydney
摘要：How do public sentiments towards the government change following terror attacks? The literature has traditionally answered this question using temporally aggregated voting data. This paper proposes an alternative, fine-grained approach to explore the short term dynamics underlying public sentiments. I first use high-frequency, media-reported event data to quantify Public Discontent, for 135 countries, over the period 2002-2020. Comparing the change in Public Discontent in country-months with s...
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作者：Bassier, Ihsaan
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; University of Cape Town
摘要：How important are firms for wage inequality in developing countries where structural unemployment is high? Research focused on contexts close to full employment has suggested a substantial role of firms in labor market inequality. Using matched employer-employee data from South Africa, I find that firms explain a larger share of wage variation than in richer countries. I consider drivers of this, documenting first a higher productivity dispersion as found for other developing countries. Second...
