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• The effect of reporting errors on the cross-country relationship between inequality and crime AI翻译
  作者：Gibson, John; Kim, Bonggeun
  作者单位：University of Waikato; Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
  摘要：This paper analyzes reporting errors in crime data to see how they impact econometric estimates, particularly of the key relationship between inequality and crime. Criminal victimization surveys Of 140,000 respondents in 37 industrial, transition and developing countries are used. Comparing the crimes experienced by these respondents with those reported to the police, nonrandom and mean-reverting errors are apparent. Time-varying factors affect the propensity of victims to report crimes to the...
• Deforestation and the real exchange rate AI翻译
  作者：Arcand, Jean-Louis; Guillaumont, Patrick; Jeanneney, Sylviane Guillaumont
  作者单位：Universite Clermont Auvergne (UCA)
  摘要：Deforestation is a phenomenon that has largely been concentrated in the developing world. We construct a theoretical model of deforestation that focuses on the factors affecting the incentives to transform forested land into agricultural land. We show that: (i) lower discount rates and stronger institutions decrease deforestation; (ii) a depreciation in the real exchange rate increases deforestation in developing countries whereas the opposite obtains in developed countries; (iii) paradoxicall...
• Household bargaining over fertility: Theory and evidence from Malaysia AI翻译
  作者：Rasul, Imran
  作者单位：University of London; University College London
  摘要：We develop and test a model of household bargaining over fertility when transfers between spouses are possible. The model makes precise how the fertility preferences of each spouse translate into fertility outcomes. We show this depends on whether or not spouses can commit to their future actions within marriage. If couples bargain with commitment, fertility outcomes take account of both spouses' fertility preferences and do not depend on the threat point in marital bargaining. If couples barg...
• Political connections, financing and firm performance: Evidence from Chinese private firms AI翻译
  作者：Li, Hongbin; Meng, Lingsheng; Wang, Qian; Zhou, Li-An
  作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Tsinghua University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Zhejiang University; Peking University
  摘要：This paper examines the role of affiliation with the ruling Communist Party in the operation of private enterprises in China. Using a nationwide survey of private Finns, we find that the Party membership of private entrepreneurs has a positive effect on the performance of their firms when human capital and other relevant variables are controlled. We further find that Party membership helps private entrepreneurs to obtain loans from banks or other state institutions, and affords them more confi...
• Who benefits more from higher household consumption? The intra-household allocation of nutrients in China AI翻译
  作者：Mangyo, Eiji
  摘要：Previous studies find that human capital investments in boys are less income elastic than investments in girls, attributing this result to favoritism toward boys. I show theoretically that it is plausible for more productive or favored household members to have higher income elasticities. I then investigate this question empirically, utilizing panel data on individual nutrient intake from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) to analyze how changes in household per-capita nutrient intak...
• Are financial development and corruption control substitutes in promoting growth? AI翻译
  作者：Ahlin, Christian; Pang, Jiaren
  作者单位：Michigan State University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY
  摘要：While financial development and corruption control have been studied extensively, their interaction has not. We develop a simple model in which low corruption and financial development both facilitate the undertaking of productive projects, but act as substitutes in doing so. The substitutability arises because corruption raises the need for liquidity and thus makes financial improvements more potent; conversely, financial underdevelopment makes corruption more onerous and thus raises the gain...
• Roads out of poverty?: Assessing the links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty reduction AI翻译
  作者：Agenor, Pierre-Richard; Bayraktar, Nihal; El Aynaoui, Karim
  作者单位：University of Manchester; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
  摘要：This paper presents a dynamic macroeconomic model that captures key linkages between foreign aid, public investment, growth, and poverty. Public capital is disaggregated into education, core infrastructure, and health. Dutch disease effects associated with aid are accounted for by endogenizing changes in the relative price of domestic goods. The impact of shocks on poverty is assessed through partial elasticities and household survey data. The model is calibrated for Ethiopia and changes in th...