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作者：Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; Rohorua, Halahingano; Stillman, Steven
作者单位：University of Waikato; The World Bank; Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
摘要：We study how migrating from a poor country to a rich country affects economic beliefs, preference parameters, and household decision-making efficiency. In a ten-year follow-up survey of applicants to a migration lottery program we elicit risk and time preferences and pro-market beliefs for the migrants and the unsuccessful applicants. The successful and the unsuccessful applicants are each linked to closest relative households, who would stay in the home country if the applicant moved, to play...
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作者：Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean; McConnell, Margaret; Raffler, Pia
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Northwestern University; Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA); Harvard University; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Harvard University
摘要：The way in which a product is distributed can have lasting effects on demand by influencing learning, anchoring price expectations, and shaping perceptions of product value. While these issues apply broadly, they are particularly important for health products in poor countries, where short-term subsidies are common, similar products are often available through both non-profit and for-profit organizations, and expanding access is an important public health goal. We implemented a field experimen...
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作者：Chaijaroen, Pasita
作者单位：Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science & Technology; William & Mary; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：This paper explores how people adapt to climate shocks, specifically coral bleaching, that have long-lasting impacts on income. Caused mainly by abnormally high sea surface temperature, coral bleaching has significant effects on marine resources. Using panel data from Indonesia and exogenous variations in bleaching, I observe that fishery households in affected areas experienced a decrease in income relative to other households. Although consumption expenditures did not decline significantly i...
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作者：Yang, Hyunjoo
作者单位：Incheon National University
摘要：Ethnic and linguistic heterogeneity are widely studied as determinants of social capital, conflict, and institutional quality. In many cultures, another important dimension of heterogeneity is family clan membership. I study the relationship between family clan diversity in South Korean villages and the voluntary production of public goods and contributions of private resources for village projects. Under the 1970-1971 New Village Beautification Project, the government distributed resources to...
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作者：Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley C.; Raschky, Paul A.; Tierney, Michael J.
作者单位：Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Gottingen; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Leibniz Association; Institut fur Weltwirtschaft an der Universitat Kiel (IFW); University of St Gallen; University of St Gallen; William & Mary; Monash University; William & Mary
摘要：We investigate whether foreign aid from China is prone to political capture in aid-receiving countries. Specifically, we examine whether more Chinese aid is allocated to the birth regions of political leaders, controlling for indicators of need and various fixed effects. We collect data on 117 African leaders' birthplaces and geocode 1650 Chinese development projects across 2969 physical locations in Africa from 2000 to 2012. Our econometric results show that political leaders' birth regions r...
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作者：Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher; Rammohan, Anu
作者单位：University of Western Australia; Airlangga University
摘要：Developing countries are increasingly moving to unified targeted systems to better identify the poor and improve their outcomes. While social programs are nearly always delivered alongside one another however, the evaluations of these programs typically occur in isolation. Combining nationally representative administrative and survey data, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs in unison. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia's Unified Targeting system, an in...
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作者：Bertoni, Eleonora; Di Maio, Michele; Molini, Vasco; Nistico, Roberto
作者单位：Inter-American Development Bank; Parthenope University Naples; The World Bank; University of Naples Federico II
摘要：This paper quantifies the impact of the Boko Haram conflict on various educational outcomes of individuals living in North-East Nigeria during the period 2009-2016. Using individual panel fixed-effects regressions and exploiting over-time and cross-village variation in conflict intensity, we show that conflict reduces school enrolment. The negative effect is larger for children who are no longer of mandatory school age. We do not find differential effects by gender, religion, or type of reside...
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作者：Chari, A. V.; Glick, Peter; Okeke, Edward; Srinivasan, Sinduja V.
作者单位：University of Sussex; RAND Corporation
摘要：This paper examines the relationship between maternal employment and infant health in the context of a large workfare program that explicitly prioritizes female participation, India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Using multiple estimation strategies including a triple difference strategy that exploits a discontinuity in program eligibility at age 18, we find that the program had negative impacts on newborn infant survival, increasing newborn mortality among women who were eligib...
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作者：Jerzmanowski, Michal; Tamura, Robert
作者单位：Clemson University
摘要：Understanding international income differences requires measuring supplies of multiple production factors and their productivity. Recent work suggests that heterogeneous workers should be treated as imperfect substitutes. Using a model of endogenous directed technological change and a new data set on labor force composition we construct productivity for workers in three skill categories for 63 countries from 1910 to 2010 (up to 83 additional countries for 1950-2010). Rich countries use all ski...
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作者：Awondo, Sebastain N.
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
摘要：In an attempt to better manage extreme weather risk using (re)insurance and securitizing devices, the African Union recently established the Africa Risk Capacity (ARC) to pool extreme drought risk across Africa. We investigate the prevalence of systemic risk within potential ARC risk pools and its effect on diversifying drought risk using rainfall index-insurance. To develop an index that captures the tail behavior of losses, we employ a two-stage process that involves a vector autoregressive ...
