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作者：Fetter, T. Robert; Usmani, Faraz
作者单位：Duke University; Mathematica
摘要：The shale gas revolution in the United States induced an unprecedented commodity boom across northwestern India. Leveraging population -based discontinuities in the contemporaneous roll -out of India's national rural electrification scheme, we show that access to electricity increased total employment and non-agricultural employment in villages affected by this exogenous economic shock, but had no impact on labor markets elsewhere. This combination of two natural experiments highlights how com...
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作者：Albuquerque, Rui; de Araujo, Bruno; Brandao-Marques, Luis; Mosse, Gerivasia; de Vletter, Pippy; Zavale, Helder
作者单位：Boston College; European Corporate Governance Institute; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Eduardo Mondlane University; International Monetary Fund
摘要：We use data on price expectations from a survey of randomly sampled smallholder farmers in Mozambique. Across all crops, farmers report selling on average within three weeks of harvest, at lower prices than expected later in the season. Liquidity constrained farmers sell their harvest 50% faster than unconstrained farmers, but they increase their storage time in response to higher expected future prices. We address causality using an instrumental variables approach exploiting abnormal rainfall...
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作者：Arteaga, Fernando; Desierto, Desiree; Koyama, Mark
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; George Mason University; George Mason University; George Mason University; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：The trade route between Manila and Mexico was a monopoly of the Spanish Crown for more than 250 years. The ships that sailed this route - the Manila Galleons, were the richest ships in all the oceans, but much of the wealth sank at sea and remains undiscovered. We introduce a newly constructed dataset of all of the ships that traveled this route, and construct a model showing how monopoly rents that allowed widespread bribery would have led to inefficient cargo loading and delayed ship departu...
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作者：Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Dominguez, Patricio; Perez-Vincent, Santiago M.
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Inter-American Development Bank
摘要：Parenting practices play a crucial role in child development. We evaluate the impact of a free digital stress management and positive parenting intervention designed to improve caregiver's mental health and positive caregiver-child interactions in El Salvador. Drawing on the prior success of in-person interventions, we study the effects of digital intervention delivery and examine differential treatment effects by caregiver's sex. Using an individual-level experiment, we find that the interven...
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作者：Coy, Felipe
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Scholars have highlighted how local elites can use their de facto power to capture democracy. This makes electoral competition particularly vulnerable in armed conflicts driven by politics. Would a reduction in politically motivated violence perpetrated by local elites promote electoral competition? To investigate this, I employ a synthetic difference-in-differences strategy within the setting of Colombia's demobilization of paramilitaries, who were heavily connected with local elites across t...
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作者：Leo, Lorenzo Aldeco; Jurado, Andres; Ramirez-Alvarez, Aurora A.
作者单位：Bank of Mexico; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Colegio de Mexico
摘要：We study how internal migration responds to an increase in criminal violence in the context of Mexico's 2007 War on Drugs. To identify causal effects, we exploit the changes in homicides generated by conflict between drug-trafficking organizations. Instrumental variable regressions show that high skilled individuals are less likely to migrate to a municipality where the homicide rate increased. Conversely, we find out-migration from municipalities that experienced an increase in murders but on...
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作者：Chen, Yutong
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington
摘要：This paper investigates gender gaps in the gig economy of a developing country. Using novel data from a major Chinese online healthcare platform, I show that female physicians charge 2.3% lower prices and provide 11.0% fewer consultations than males. Patients appear to discriminate against female physicians despite them having identical observable productive characteristics to those of male physicians. The differential responses of patients to quality signals from female physicians suggest tha...
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作者：Ma, Meilin; Delgado, Michael S.; Wang, H. Holly
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：Spatial market integration, an important means to increase market efficiency and boost economic development, is often affected by policy changes such as trade liberalization and trade restrictions. With unique weekly data on provincial hog prices, we use the 2018 outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in China and the subsequent ban on cross-province shipment of hogs as a natural experiment to study dynamic spatial mechanisms underlying market integration. We employ a high-dimensional spatial m...
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作者：Dhami, Sanjit; Wei, Mengxing; Mamidi, Pavan
作者单位：University of Leicester; Nankai University
摘要：We use the trust and the dictator games to explore the effects of religious identity on trust, trustworthiness, prosociality, and conditional reciprocity within a beliefs-based model. We provide a novel, rigorous, theoretical model to derive the relevant predictions, which are then tested in lab-in-the-field experiments in the Indian states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. We find strong evidence of the effects of religious identity on the belief hierarchies, and the chosen actions, of Hindu and Mu...
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作者：Cheng, Hua; Ding, Siying; Liu, Yongzheng
作者单位：Zhongnan University of Economics & Law; University of International Business & Economics; Renmin University of China
摘要：Although minimum paid -in capital requirements impede firm entry, governments worldwide have only recently started to reduce or remove such requirements. This study is among the first to examine the effectiveness of an entry deregulation reform in China that eliminated such requirements. We exploit city-year-month variation in reform implementation and employ a large nationwide administrative dataset of firm registrations, finding that the deregulation strongly encourages firm and job creation...
