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作者：Bhattacharya, Prasad S.; Mitra, Devashish; Ulubasoglu, Mehmet A.
作者单位：Deakin University; Syracuse University
摘要：We construct a unique, extensive dataset that codifies 372 major land reform enactments in 165 countries during the period 1900-2010 and classifies them as those with several different motives. Exploiting the geographic and time variation in land reforms and political transitions across the globe over more than a century, we find that democratic transitions are linked with a greater likelihood of land reforms of the pro-poor type as well as those with different inequality-reducing motives. The...
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作者：Bruce, Raphael; Lima, Rafael Costa
作者单位：Universidade de Sao Paulo; Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
摘要：Do people acquire more information when they are encouraged to participate in elections? This paper presents empirical evidence on the effects of compulsory voting laws on the consumption of TV news. In Brazil, literate citizens over the age of eighteen are subject to a number of legal penalties if they fail to turn out on election day. This allows us to identify the causal effect of being under a compulsory voting regime on information acquisition. We find that compulsory voting has a signifi...
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作者：Carter, Michael R.; Tjernstrom, Emilia; Toledo, Patricia
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University System of Ohio; Ohio University
摘要：We study the impacts of a rural development program designed to boost the income of the small-farm sector in Nicaragua. Exploiting the random assignment of treatment, we find statistically and economically significant impacts on gross farm income and investment in productive farm capital. Using continuous treatment estimation techniques, we examine the evolution of program impacts over time and find that the estimated income increase persists and that the impacts on productive capital stock co...
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作者：Chakraborty, Tanika; Jayaraman, Rajshri
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Calcutta; European School of Management & Technology
摘要：We study the effect of the world's largest school feeding program on children's learning outcomes. Staggered implementation across different states of a 2001 Indian Supreme Court Directive mandating the introduction of free school lunches in public primary schools generates plausibly exogenous variation in program exposure across different birth cohorts. We exploit this to estimate the effect of program exposure on math and reading test scores of primary school-aged children. We find that prol...
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作者：Mamo, Nemera; Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Moradi, Alexander
作者单位：University of London; Queen Mary University London; University of Sussex; Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
摘要：What are the economic consequences of mining in Sub-Saharan Africa? Using a panel of 3,635 districts from 42 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 1992 to 2012 we investigate the effects of mining on living standards (measured by night-lights and household/cohort characteristics from Demographic and Health Surveys) and public service provisions (from Afrobarometer). Night-lights increase in mining districts when mineral production expands (intensive margin), but large effects are mainly...
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作者：Hortacsu, Ali; Hwang, Sam Il Myoung; Mathur, Divya
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of British Columbia; Analysis Group Inc.
摘要：We study the effect of a policy in India that offers monetary incentives to inter-caste marriages, in which one of the spouses is of historically disadvantaged castes, i.e., Scheduled Castes, and the other is not. We show that, in theory, the monetary incentives increase the incidence of exogamy, but may reduce the welfare of certain caste or gender. Building on our theoretical analysis, we estimate the effect of the monetary incentives on the incidence of exogamy, the welfare and inter-spousa...
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作者：Anagol, Santosh; Pareek, Ankur
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Las Vegas
摘要：A primary risk associated with business groups entering the financial sector is that groups will misallocate capital to own group firms, hurting investors and economic development. We study this issue in the context of business group owned mutual funds in India, where business groups have been present for over twenty years, and we can observe capital allocation decisions monthly. Business-group owned funds do not over-weight member firms, nor do they prop up member firm stocks or earn excess r...
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作者：Zhang, Hongsong
作者单位：University of Hong Kong
摘要：In firm-level panel data, labor share exhibits large cross-sectional differences and a declining trend over time. This study examines the role of non-Hicks neutral technology differences across firms and over time in explaining these patterns. The non-Hicks neutral technology allows for differential factor-augmenting efficiencies for capital, labor, and material, and it has direct implications on labor shares. Estimated using firm-level production data and variation in input prices, evidence f...
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作者：Castilla, Carolina
作者单位：Colgate University
摘要：In this paper, I present results from a field-laboratory experiment in India where individuals in established marriages were randomly given the opportunity to choose to keep money private from their partner, assigned to a complete information, or to a private information treatment. The experiment was designed to test the effect of private information at the time when spouses decide on the amount of resources to bargain over with their partners (pre-bargaining stage) on intra-household allocati...
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作者：Dillon, Brian; Brummund, Peter; Mwabu, Germano
作者单位：Cornell University; University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa; University of Nairobi
摘要：This paper develops and implements a test that provides insight into the state of rural labor markets. The test is based on a theoretical link between a shortage or surplus in the labor market and asymmetric responses to changes in household composition. We develop auxiliary tests to distinguish other market imperfections from labor market imperfections, and provide evidence that most changes in household composition are exogenous to local labor market conditions. We implement the test using d...
