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作者：Desiere, Sam; Jolliffe, Dean
作者单位：Ghent University; The World Bank; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：This paper revisits the decades-old puzzle of the inverse plot-size productivity relationship (IR), which states that land productivity decreases as plot size increases. While existing studies define land productivity or yields as self reported production divided by plot size, we consider an alternative approach to estimating yields based on crop cuts. The crop-cut method entails measuring and harvesting randomly selected subplots by trained technicians, and is recommended by the Food and Agri...
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作者：Wu, Guiying Laura
作者单位：Nanyang Technological University
摘要：Policy distortions and financial frictions are two leading candidates in generating capital misallocation. This paper designs an identification strategy to separate their effects on average MRPK dispersion across firm ownership, as the average treatment effect on the treated and the selection bias from a policy intervention. Financial frictions are estimated to cause an aggregate TFP loss of 8.3 percent on the intensive margin, which accounts for 30 percent of the capital misallocation observe...
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作者：Allen, Jeffrey; Nataraj, Shanthi; Schipper, Tyler C.
作者单位：Bentley University; RAND Corporation; University of St Thomas Minnesota
摘要：This paper develops a multi-industry general equilibrium model where entrepreneurs within each industry can decide to operate formally or informally. The model generates a rich set of predictions including productivity cut-offs for formal and informal firms to operate within different industries. We allow fixed costs to vary across industries, resulting in overlapping productivity distributions between formal and informal firms in the aggregate, but strict duality within industries. In doing s...
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作者：Calvi, Rossella; Mantovanelli, Federico G.
作者单位：Rice University; Analysis Group Inc.
摘要：Health outcomes in India vary substantially across regions. Motivated by mounting evidence of the historical persistence of institutions and behavior, this paper studies the historical origins of this health variation. We examine the long-term consequences of the Protestant medical missionary enterprise that spread throughout India in the nineteenth century. Protestant mission medicine sought to place itself within non-European social and institutional milieus, contributing to the diffusion of...
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作者：Imbruno, Michele; Ketterer, Tobias D.
作者单位：Universite Clermont Auvergne (UCA); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); University of Nottingham
摘要：This paper investigates whether importing intermediate goods improves firm-level environmental performance in a developing country, using data from the Indonesian manufacturing sector. We build a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration of input markets entails energy efficiency improvements within importers relative to non-importers. To empirically isolate the impact of firm participation in foreign intermediate input markets we use 'nearest neighbour' propensity score matching...
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作者：Marto, Ricardo; Papageorgiou, Chris; Klyuev, Vladimir
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; International Monetary Fund
摘要：We present a dynamic small open economy model to explore the macroeconomic impact of a major natural disaster. In addition to permanent damages to public and private capital, the disaster causes temporary losses of productivity, inefficiencies during the reconstruction process, and damages to the sovereign's creditworthiness. We use the model to study the debt sustainability concerns that arise from the need to fully rebuild public infrastructure over the medium term and analyze the feasibilit...
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作者：Cole, Matthew A.; Elliott, Robert J. R.; Occhiali, Giovanni; Strobl, Eric
作者单位：University of Birmingham; University of Bern
摘要：In this paper we assess the extent to which power outages affect the sales of firms across different African economies. We address the potential endogeneity concerns endemic in much of the existing literature by constructing an instrument for power outages based on the varying share of electricity produced by hydro-power as a result of variation in the local climate conditions. Using firm-level data for 14 countries from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys, we find evidence of a negative relatio...
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作者：Quy-Toan Do; Joshi, Shareen; Stolper, Samuel
作者单位：The World Bank; Georgetown University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：In many developing countries, environmental quality remains low and policies to improve it have been inconsistently effective. We conduct a case study of environmental policy in India, focusing on unprecedented Supreme Court rulings that targeted industrial pollution in the Ganga River. In a difference-in-differences framework, we find that the rulings precipitated reductions in river pollution and one-month infant mortality, both of which persist for more than a decade. We then estimate a pol...
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作者：Shenoy, Ajay
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz
摘要：In 2002 the Indian government targeted the new state of Uttarakhand with massive improvements in infrastructure, a generous investment subsidy, and a complete exemption from corporate and excise taxes. I estimate the causal effect of this policy on economic development by exploiting the spatial discontinuity created by the new state border. Nighttime light emissions rise sharply in the targeted state, implying a 28 percent increase in output. Village public goods, farm employment, and proxies ...
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作者：Dillon, Brian; Voena, Alessandra
作者单位：Cornell University; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Chicago
摘要：This paper examines the connection between widows' land inheritance rights and land investments in Zambia. We study whether the threat of land expropriation upon widowhood deters households from fallowing, applying fertilizer, and employing labor-intensive tillage techniques. Variation in inheritance by widows is based on customary village practices, which we observe in surveys of village leaders. Controlling for possible confounding factors, both OLS and IV estimates show lower levels of land...
