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作者：Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence
作者单位：Aix-Marseille Universite; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Aix-Marseille Universite; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); CNRS - Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences (INSHS); CY Cergy Paris Universite; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Witwatersrand
摘要：Poverty measures often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from joint consumption. In this paper, we estimate the allocation process and adult economies of scale in households from Cote d'Ivoire using a collective model of household consumption. Identification relies on the observation of adult-specific goods, as in the Rothbarth method, and a joint estimation on couples and singles. Our results show that men and women's shares of total expenditure are of the sam...
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作者：Liu, Qing; Shi, Kang; Wu, Zhouheng; Xu, Juanyi
作者单位：Tsinghua University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：Oil price stabilization polices are adopted extensively in developing countries. Some argue that developed economies, especially the US, may gain from these policies through trade. This paper studies this issue in a two-country model with dollar currency pricing. We find that the optimal level of oil price stabilization chosen by developing countries and its implications for global welfare depend critically on whether monetary policy can effectively respond to oil shocks. In an environment wit...
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作者：Keswell, Malcolm; Carter, Michael R.
作者单位：University of Cape Town; University of Cape Town; University of California System; University of California Davis; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Despite a theoretical literature that promises that land transfers will have large impacts on the well-being of poor households, well-identified empirical evidence on the efficacy of land redistribution is scarce. In an effort to fill this gap, this paper examines South Africa's Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD) program. We exploit features of LRAD program implementation to extract exogenous variation in whether, and for how long, applicant households enjoyed land transfe...
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作者：Gallego, Francisco A.; Tessada, Jose A.
作者单位：Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
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作者：Bosker, Maarten; de Ree, Joppe
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Utrecht University; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); The World Bank
摘要：Civil wars tend to cluster in particular areas of the world. We provide empirical evidence that cross-border conflict spillovers are an important factor in explaining this pattern. Moreover, we show that ethnicity plays a key role in conditioning the spread of civil wars. Only ethnic wars tend to spill over, and ethnic wars are more likely to spill over along ethnic lines. The latter result is robust to the inclusion of a host of (other) cross-border characteristics, such as geographical facto...
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作者：Broussard, Nzinga H.; Dercon, Stefan; Somanathan, Rohini
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Oxford; Delhi School of Economics
摘要：We use a principal-agent framework and data from the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey between 1994 and 2004 to understand biases in the distribution of food aid in Ethiopia. We show that even when aid is systematically misallocated, aid recipients may match official classifications of needy households if agents deviate from allocation rules in ways that are difficult to monitor. Agent behavior is therefore best understood by comparing aid along dimensions of need that are visible to the princi...
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作者：Chung, Sunghoon
作者单位：Korea Development Institute (KDI)
摘要：This paper studies how environmental regulation shapes the pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI), and thereby assesses the pollution haven hypothesis. Conflicting results exist in the case studies examining the most advanced countries, partly due to the deterrent effect of clean technology adoptions on industry migration. To minimize the clean technology effect, we examine the pattern of South Korean FDI over 2000-2007, the period that Korean firms relied on old production technologies de...
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作者：Koppensteiner, Martin Foureaux
作者单位：University of Leicester
摘要：This paper examines the effect of automatic grade promotion on academic achievement in 1993 public primary schools in Brazil. A difference-in-differences approach that exploits variation over time and across schools in the grade promotion regime allows the identification of the treatment effect of automatic promotion. I find a negative and significant effect of about 7% of a standard deviation on math test scores. I provide evidence in support of the interpretation of the estimates as a disinc...
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作者：Meon, Pierre-Guillaume; Minne, Geoffrey
作者单位：Universite Libre de Bruxelles; Universite Libre de Bruxelles
摘要：This paper investigates the role of a free press and the circulation of information on the capacity of a country to declare an exchange regime that differs from the regime it implements de facto. We report consistent evidence that greater press freedom and easier access to information result in a lower probability of untruthfully reporting the de facto regime. These findings withstand a large set of robustness checks, including controlling for democracy and for the institutional and political ...
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作者：Vogl, Tom S.
作者单位：Princeton University
摘要：Taller workers are paid higher wages. A prominent explanation for this pattern is that physical growth and cognitive development share childhood inputs, inducing a correlation between adult height and two productive skills: strength and intelligence. This paper explores the relative roles of strength and intelligence in explaining the labor market height premium among Mexican men. While cognitive test scores account for a limited share of the height premium, roughly half of the premium can be ...
