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作者：Mansour, Hani; Rees, Daniel I.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; Leibniz Association; DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung
摘要：No previous study has estimated the effect of intrauterine exposure to armed conflict on pregnancy outcomes. Drawing on data from the 2004 Palestinian Demographic and Health Survey, which was conducted approximately 4 years after the start of the al-Aqsa Intifada, we find that an additional conflict-related fatality 9-6 months before birth is associated with a modest increase in the probability of having a child who weighed less than 2500 g. There is also evidence, albeit less consistent, of a...
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作者：Caeyers, Bet; Chalmers, Neil; De Weerdt, Joachim
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：This paper reports on a randomized survey experiment among 1840 households, designed to compare pen-and-paper interviewing (PAPI) to computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAM). We find that PAPI data contain a large number of errors, which can be avoided in CAPI. Error counts are not randomly distributed across the sample, but are correlated with household characteristics, potentially introducing sample bias if dubious observations need to be dropped. We demonstrate a tendency for the sprea...
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作者：Breuer, Janice Boucher; McDermott, John
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Trust is an important determinant of economic development. Understanding its origins is therefore critical. We develop a principal-agent model with heterogeneous players to determine the aggregate amount of trustworthiness and trust in a society. People are distributed according to their preference toward caution, which we model as loss aversion. The first two moments of the distribution across principals and agents along with institutional quality are critical to the process by which trustwor...
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作者：Verma, Rubina
作者单位：Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
摘要：This paper examines the factors responsible for generating the services led growth witnessed in the Indian economy during 1980-2005. A sectoral growth accounting exercise shows that total factor productivity (TFP) growth was the fastest for services; moreover this TFP increase was significant in accounting for service sector value added growth. A growth model with agriculture, industry and services as three principal sectors is calibrated to Indian data using sectoral TFP growth rates. The bas...
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作者：Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L.
作者单位：University of Ottawa; Carleton University; Carleton University
摘要：Acknowledging the differential ability of individuals to privately mitigate the consequences of domestic pollution for their health is essential for an understanding of their demands for regulation of the environment and of trade in dirty goods, and for analysis of the implications of these demands for equilibrium policy choices. In a small open economy with exogenous policy, we first explain how private mitigation at a cost results in an unequal distribution of the health consequences of poll...
