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作者：Ruyssen, Ilse; Salomone, Sara
作者单位：Ghent University; Universite Catholique Louvain
摘要：In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent worldwide female migration can be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Making use of unique individual level data, we track women's intention and preparation to migrate from 148 countries between 2009-2013 and disentangle how individual perceptions of gender discrimination can foster or impede female migration across countries. We perform extensive robustness checks to mitigate concerns about poten...
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作者：Chen, Natalie; Juvenal, Luciana
作者单位：University of Warwick; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; International Monetary Fund
摘要：We investigate theoretically and empirically the heterogeneous effects of the global financial crisis on international trade flows differentiated by quality. Our model, which identifies the effect of quality on trade that arises on the demand side, through the relationship between income and quality choice, predicts that a negative income shock disproportionately reduces the demand for higher relative to lower quality traded goods (a flight from quality). Using a unique dataset of firm-level w...
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作者：Kochar, Anjini
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：This paper evaluates the effect on household savings of India's recent financial inclusion drive, a drive that generated an unprecedented increase in access to financial institutions by using mobile technologies to deliver services practically at the doorstep of rural households. Using household data from just before and after the initiation of the policy, matched with village-level data on financial institutions, I identify the effects of access to financial institutions utilizing longitudina...
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作者：Riley, Emma
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Households in developing countries have gained increased access to remittances through the recent introduction of mobile money services. I examine the impact of these mobile money services on consumption after a rainfall shock, such as a flood or drought, for both users of mobile money and for household that don't use mobile money but who reside in villages with other users. This allows me to determine the extent that remittances received via mobile money are shared within villages, creating w...
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作者：Brown, Caitlin; Ravallion, Martin; van de Walle, Dominique
作者单位：Central European University; Georgetown University; The World Bank
摘要：Proxy-means tests (PMTs) are popular for poverty-targeting with imperfect information. In a widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a PMT score based on covariates, which is then implemented for targeting out-of-sample. The performance of various PMT methods is assessed using data for nine African countries. Standard PMTs help filter out the non-poor, but exclude many poor people, thus diminishing the impact on poverty. Poverty-focused econometric methods such as using...
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作者：Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Santos, Rafael J.
作者单位：Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
摘要：We study the causal impact of internally displaced people (IDP) inflows on rental prices in Colombian host cities. Following an instrumental variables approach we find that as IDP inflows increase, low-income rental prices increase and high-income rental prices decrease. We provide empirical evidence on two potential mechanisms for these findings: Excess demand for low-income housing puts upwards pressure on rental prices; increasing supply of high-income housing coupled with rising homicide r...
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作者：Girardi, Daniele; Bowles, Samuel
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; The Santa Fe Institute
摘要：To study the effect of political and institutional changes on the economy, we look at share prices in the Santiago exchange during the tumultuous political events that characterized Chile in the early 1970s. We use a transparent empirical strategy, deploying previously unused daily data and exploiting two largely unexpected shocks which involved substantial variation in policies and institutions, providing a rare natural experiment. Allende's election and subsequent socialist experiment decrea...
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作者：Gong, Binlei
作者单位：Zhejiang University
摘要：A series of fundamental and market-oriented reforms since 1978 have dramatically reshaped China's agricultural sector, which had been sluggish during the socialist period. Besides productivity growth and efficiency changes, the shape of the production function may also transform rapidly over time. Moreover, the four segments in agriculture (farming, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries) have different production processes and techniques, so the aggregated production function of agricultur...
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作者：Di Falco, Salvatore; Feri, Francesco; Pin, Paolo; Vollenweider, Xavier
作者单位：University of Geneva; University of London; Royal Holloway University London; University of Trieste; Bocconi University; Bocconi University
摘要：In this paper, we identify economic implications of the pressure to share resources within a social network. Through a set of field experiments in rural Tanzania we randomly increased the expected harvest of the treatment group by the assignment of an improved and much more productive variety of maize. We find that treated individuals reduced the interaction with their social network by discussing with fewer people in the village the type of seed they received, so as not to reveal their improv...
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作者：Kalsi, Priti
作者单位：Rochester Institute of Technology
摘要：This paper links American criminal deportations with gang activity and reduced schooling in El Salvador. Regions with greater business density before the deportations are argued to be suitable for future gangs, as extortion of businesses is their primary source of income. These regions are shown to become disproportionately more violent with more criminal deportations. Using variation in time and location, I estimate a difference-in-differences model to study the impact of gang exposure on chi...
