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作者：Anderson, Siwan; Genicot, Garance
作者单位：Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR); Georgetown University
摘要：This paper studies the impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level variation in legal changes to women's property rights, we show that better property rights for women are associated with a decrease in the difference between female and male suicide rates, but an increase in both male and female suicides. We conjecture that increasing female property rights increased conflict within household and this increased conflict resulted in more suicides...
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作者：Giles, John; Satriawan, Elan
作者单位：The World Bank; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early childhood nutritional status. This paper exploits heterogeneity in duration of program exposure to evaluate the impact of the program on children aged 6 to 60 months. By examining differences in nutritional status of treated younger children and a placebo group of older children, the analysis f...
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作者：Cano-Urbina, Javier
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：Does work experience gained in the informal sector affect the career prospects of less-educated workers? This paper examines two roles that informal sector jobs play in the early stages of a worker's career: informal jobs may (i) provide the opportunity to accumulate skills, and (ii) act as a screening device that enables employers to learn a worker's ability. The paper develops a matching model of the informal and formal sectors that can accommodate both roles. Implied hazard rates from infor...
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作者：Bengtsson, Niklas
作者单位：Uppsala University
摘要：Informal sectors in developing countries are often thought of as responses to rigid and cumbersome market regulations. In this paper I study informal trade as a first-best outcome. In the model I propose rigid regulations can be necessary to achieve efficiency even though they are always sidestepped. The key assumption is that the regulations define the trading parties' fall-back position in case the informal bargaining process breaks down. I set up a field experiment to test the model's mecha...
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作者：Kee, Hiau Looi
作者单位：The World Bank
摘要：Trade liberalizations have been shown to improve domestic firms' performance through the new varieties of imported intermediate inputs. This paper uses a unique, representative sample of Bangladeshi garment firms to highlight that local intermediate inputs may also enhance domestic firms' performance, through the shared supplier spillovers of foreign direct investment (FDI) firms. An exogenous EU trade policy shock is shown to cause some FDI firms in Bangladesh to expand, which led to better p...
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作者：Fenske, James
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：I evaluate the impact of education on polygamy in Africa. Districts of French West Africa that received more colonial teachers and parts of sub-Saharan Africa that received Protestant or Catholic missions have lower polygamy rates in the present. I find no evidence of a causal effect of modem education on polygamy. Natural experiments that have expanded education in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Kenya have not reduced polygamy. Colonial education and missionary education, then, have been...
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作者：Eichengreen, Barry; Tong, Hui
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; International Monetary Fund
摘要：We examine the impact of Chinese currency (renminbi) revaluation on firm valuations, focusing on the effect of surprise announcements of changes in China's currency policy on 9753 manufacturing firms in 44 countries. Renminbi appreciation has no significant impact on the valuation of firms in sectors exporting to China on average. But this non-result confounds a positive effect on firms in sectors exporting final goods to China with a negligible effect on those providing inputs for China's pro...
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作者：Jafarey, Saqib; Maiti, Dibyendu
作者单位：City St Georges, University of London; University of the South Pacific
摘要：This paper studies how marital anticipation affects female schooling in the presence of gender wage inequality and private benefits of education. Gender wage inequality induces a marital division of labour that creates (i) a marginal disincentive to girls' schooling and (ii) a tradeoff between consumption and education facing females in marriage markets. We show that in the presence of the last effect, an increase in the market wage can have negative consequences for the education of females w...
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作者：Yi, Hongmei; Song, Yingquan; Liu, Chengfang; Huang, Xiaoting; Zhang, Linxiu; Bai, Yunli; Ren, Baoping; Shi, Yaojiang; Loyalka, Prashant; Chu, James; Rozelle, Scott
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Geographic Sciences & Natural Resources Research, CAS; Peking University; Northwest University Xi'an; Shaanxi Normal University; Stanford University
摘要：We estimate the impact of two early commitment of financial aid (ECFA) programs-one at the start and one near the end of junior high school (seventh and ninth grades, respectively)-on the outcomes of poor, rural junior high students in China. Our results demonstrate that neither of the ECFA programs has a substantive effect. We find that the ninth-grade program had at most only a small (and likely negligible) effect on matriculation to high school. The seventh-grade program had no effect on ei...
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作者：Fenske, James; Kala, Namrata
作者单位：University of Oxford; Yale University
摘要：African societies exported more slaves in colder years. Lower temperatures reduced mortality and raised agricultural yields, lowering slave supply costs. Our results help explain African participation in the slave trade, which predicts adverse outcomes today. We use an annual panel of African temperatures and port-level slave exports to show that exports declined when local temperatures were warmer than normal. This result is strongest where African ecosystems are least resilient to climate ch...
