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作者：Kassem, Dana
作者单位：University of Mannheim
摘要：I ask whether electrification causes industrial development. I combine newly digitized data from the Indonesian state electricity company with rich manufacturing census data. To understand how electrification can cause industrial development, I shed light on an important economic mechanism - firm turnover. In particular, I study the effect of the extensive margin of electrification (grid expansion) on the extensive margin of industrial development (firm entry and exit). To deal with endogenous...
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作者：Aldunate, Felipe; Gonzalez, Felipe; Prem, Mounu
作者单位：Universidad de los Andes - Chile; University of London; Queen Mary University London; Universidad del Rosario
摘要：Governments in hegemonic states use economic sanctions to induce changes in other countries. What happens to international business networks when these sanctions are in place? We use new historical firm-level data to document the destruction of financial relations between U.S. banks and Chilean firms after socialist Salvador Allende took office in 1970. Business reports and stock prices suggest that firms were mostly unaffected by having fewer links with U.S. banks. Substitution of financial r...
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作者：Katovich, Erik S.
作者单位：University of Geneva
摘要：Natural resource discoveries are often followed by delays and uncertain production outcomes, creating challenges for governments that anticipate resource revenues. I leverage exogenous subnational variation in offshore oil discoveries in Brazil to identify dynamic effects of discovery news and revenue shocks on local public finances, public goods provision, and politics. Municipalities where discoveries are realized enjoy significant growth in revenues and spending, but fail to improve public ...
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作者：Fors, Heather Congdon; Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Lindskog, Annika
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
摘要：We investigate the long-run impacts of Christian missions on female genital cutting (FGC) in Africa. Our empirical analysis draws on historical data on the locations of early European missions geographically matched with Demographic and Health Survey data on FGC practices of around 410,000 respondents from 42 surveys performed over a 30-year period in 14 African countries. We use ethnographic data on pre-colonial FGC to show that the location of missions was not correlated with the practice of...
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作者：Mukherjee, Sanghamitra Warrier; Bergquist, Lauren Falcao; Burke, Marshall; Miguel, Edward
作者单位：University of Oxford; Yale University; Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Stanford University; Stanford University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Access to microcredit has been shown to generate only modest average benefits for recipient households. We study whether other financial market frictions - in particular, lack of access to a safe place to save - might limit credit's benefits. Working with Kenyan farmers, we cross-randomize access to a simple savings product with a harvest-time loan. Among loan offer recipients, the additional offer of a savings lockbox increased farm investment by 11% and household consumption by 7%. Results s...
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作者：Miguel, Jeremy Do Nascimento
作者单位：Universite de Bordeaux; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
摘要：In many Sub-Saharan countries, farmers cannot meet the growing urban demand for higher quality products. While the literature has focused on production-side constraints to enhance smallholder farmers' output quality, there is scarce evidence of market-side constraints. Using a sample of 60 wheat markets in Ethiopia, I assess whether farmers received a price premium for supplying higher quality outputs. I exploit a unique feature of the data which precisely measures observable and less or unobs...
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作者：Olabisi, Michael; Maredia, Mywish; Liu, Jiawen; Ajibade, Toyin; Ajeigbe, Hakeem
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University; University of Ilorin; Bayero University
摘要：How can one motivate field staff to meet activity goals on time? Can introducing competition within groups motivate workers to meet goals faster than simply setting targets for workers? We conducted an experiment that assigned temporary field workers for a mobile app registration project into two treatment groups: field workers pursuing individual goals versus competing for a shared group -goal. We measure whether field workers reached their goal, the time to reach the goal, and the number of ...
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作者：Liu, Qing; Qiu, Larry D.; Zhan, Chaoqun
作者单位：Renmin University of China; Lingnan University; Hong Kong Baptist University
摘要：Product quality is widely regarded as an important determinant for economic development. This paper investigates whether horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI) improves or deteriorates the quality of domestic firms' exports. We use China's FDI regulation changes in 2002 as an instrument variable (IV) for FDI penetration in China to identify the causal impact and introduce a theoretical model to rationalize our empirical work. We find that FDI inflows exert a significantly negative effect o...
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作者：Chakraborty, Pavel; Mitra, Devashish; Sundaram, Asha
作者单位：Lancaster University; Syracuse University; University of Auckland
摘要：Using unique information on firm level domestic outsourcing of manufacturing jobs by Indian firms, we propose two channels and their interaction as determinants of the fragmentation of production: import competition and labor market regulation. We find that greater import competition from China is associated with a significant increase in domestic outsourcing of manufacturing jobs - a 10-percentage point increase in the import penetration ratio leads to a 11%-14% increase in the ratio of outso...
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作者：Djima, Ismael Yacoubou; Kilic, Talip
作者单位：Paris School of Economics; The World Bank
摘要：This paper exploits unique survey data from Mali to validate an alternative approach to estimate the relationship between crop yields and inputs. The estimation relies on predicted objective crop yields that stem from a machine learning model trained on a random subsample of surveyed plots, for which crop cutting and self-reported sorghum yield estimates are both available. The analysis demonstrates that it is possible to predict sorghum yields with attenuated non-classical measurement error, ...
