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作者：Kung, James Kai-sing; Ma, Chicheng
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Shandong University
摘要：Can culture mitigate conflicts triggered by economic shocks? In light of the extraordinary emphasis that Confucianism places on subordination and pacifism, we examine its role in possibly attenuating peasant rebellion within the historical context of China (circa 1651-1910). Our analysis finds that, while crop failure triggers peasant rebellion, its effect is significantly smaller in counties characterized by stronger Confucian norms as proxied by Confucian temples and chaste women. This resul...
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作者：Albornoz, Facundo; Hauk, Esther
作者单位：University of Birmingham; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); CSIC - Institut d'Analisi Economica (IAE)
摘要：We study how foreign interventions affect civil war around the world. In an infinitely repeated game we combine a gambling for resurrection mechanism for the influencing country with the canonical bargaining model of war in the influenced country to micro-found sudden shifts in power among the domestic bargaining partners, which are known to lead to war due to commitment problems. We test two of our model predictions that allow us to identify the influence of foreign intervention on civil war ...
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作者：Valente, Christine y
作者单位：University of Bristol
摘要：I combine fertility histories from the 2006 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey with a census of newly introduced legal abortion centers to estimate the impact of reducing the cost of abortion on pregnancy outcomes, gender, and neonatal health. Contrary to previous studies, I identify the within-mother, behavioral response to improved access to abortion by comparing siblings conceived before and after the opening of an abortion center nearby. Closeness to a legal abortion center decreases the ...
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作者：de Nicola, Francesca; Gine, Xavier
作者单位：CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); The World Bank
摘要：This paper investigates the accuracy of recall data by comparing administrative records with retrospective, self-reported survey responses to income and asset questions for a sample of self-employed households from coastal India. It finds that the magnitude of the recall error increases over time, in part because respondents resort to inference rather than memory. Monthly earnings that are higher than the median are also better recalled. These results have implications for the accuracy of the ...
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作者：Robinson, James A.; Torvik, Ragnar; Verdier, Thierry
作者单位：Harvard University; Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
摘要：In this note we show how a considerably simpler model than the one in our original JDE 2006 paper generates all the same results. We also acknowledge an error in the specification of a utility function in our previous paper. (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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作者：Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun W.
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Queens University - Canada; University of Warwick; University of Warwick
摘要：This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform's initial success having a negative impact on its political sustainability. Second, we demonstrate that greater state capacity, to make compensatory transfers to those adversely affected by reform, need not always help the political sustainabilit...
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作者：Dustmann, Christian; Okatenko, Anna
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of London; University College London
摘要：The relation between income and migration intentions can be monotonically decreasing, increasing, or inverse U-shaped, dependent on the level of migration cost relative to wealth and if individuals are credit constrained. Using unique individual level data, covering countries in three geographic regions - sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America - we show that migration intentions respond to individual wealth, and that the pattern differs across the country groups studied in a manner compat...
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作者：Klasing, Mariko J.
作者单位：University of Groningen
摘要：This research studies the dynamic interplay between the evolution of risk attitudes and the process of economic development. This is achieved by integrating an endogenous growth model with a cultural transmission mechanism that captures how parents shape the risk attitudes of their children in response to economic incentives. The model predicts that in an economy in which the material benefits associated with risky entrepreneurial activity are high, agents will over time develop more risk tole...
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作者：Beaman, Lori; Magruder, Jeremy; Robinson, Jonathan
作者单位：Northwestern University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz
摘要：Many micro-enterprises in Kenya have low productivity. We focus on one particular business decision which may indicate low productivity: keeping enough change on hand to break larger bills. This is a surprisingly large problem. Our estimates suggest that the average firm loses approximately 5-8% of total profits because they do not have enough change. We conducted two experiments to shed light on why this happens: surveying firms weekly about lost sales, thereby increasing the salience of chan...
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作者：Madestam, Andreas
作者单位：Stockholm University
摘要：I present a model that analyzes the coexistence of formal and informal finance in underdeveloped credit markets. Formal banks have access to unlimited funds but are unable to control the use of credit. Informal lenders can prevent non-diligent behavior but often lack the needed capital. The theory implies that formal and informal credit can be either complements or substitutes. The model also explains why weak legal institutions increase the prevalence of informal finance in some markets and r...
