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作者：Downey, Mitch
作者单位：Stockholm University
摘要：Many of the world's poorest citizens live in peripheral spaces their states have chosen not to control. Leaving these spaces ungoverned poses challenges for development, global terrorism, and conflict. Can the international community induce countries to invest in controlling their territory? I consider the Bush Administration's foreign policy, which, following the September 11th attacks, demanded that countries take active steps to reduce terrorist safe havens or risk a US invasion. Drawing up...
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作者：Bahar, Dany; Ibanez, Ana Maria; Rozo, Sandra, V
作者单位：Brookings Institution; Inter-American Development Bank
摘要：We study the labor market impacts of the Permiso Especial de Permanencia program, the largest migratory amnesty program offered to undocumented migrants in a developing country in modern history. The program granted work permits to nearly half a million undocumented Venezuelan migrants in Colombia in August 2018. To evaluate the effects of the program, we compare labor outcomes in departments that have larger and lower treatment intensity, before and after the program roll-out. We test the rob...
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作者：Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd
作者单位：The World Bank; Oregon State University
摘要：We assess, via a field experiment, how a comprehensive teacher training program affects the delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on business skills in the country's required upper secondary entrepreneurship course. We randomly split a sample of 207 schools into treatment and control. Both groups received the government's standard training. In addition, the treatment group was assigned intensive training organiz...
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作者：Guo, Shiqi
作者单位：Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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作者：Casey, Gregory; Klemp, Marc
作者单位：Williams College; University of Copenhagen; Brown University
摘要：We provide a simple framework for interpreting instrumental variable regressions when there is a gap in time between the impact of the instrument and the measurement of the endogenous variable, highlighting a particular violation of the exclusion restriction that can arise in this setting. In the presence of this violation, conventional IV regressions do not consistently estimate a structural parameter of interest. Building on our framework, we develop a simple empirical method to estimate the...
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作者：Manian, Shanthi
作者单位：Washington State University
摘要：Risky health behaviors contribute to a large share of disease in developing countries, yet few papers have studied the effect of conflict on these behaviors. The canonical health capital model predicts that conflict should increase risky health behaviors: as the likelihood of survival falls, incentives to invest in preventive measures also fall, increasing risk-taking. However, recent findings from various violent contexts, including the drug war in Mexico, suggest the behavioral response to c...
