Journal of Development Economics

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• Gains from market integration: Welfare effects of new rural roads in Ethiopia AI翻译
  作者：Kebede, Hundanol A.
  作者单位：Southern Illinois University System; Southern Illinois University
  摘要：This paper estimates the welfare gains from the construction of rural roads that connect agricultural villages to market centers. I take theoretical predictions from Ricardian trade models to a rich high spatial resolution micro data on agricultural production from Ethiopia, which coincides with a period of extensive rural road construction. I estimate that the road construction resulted in an approximately 13% increase in real agricultural income, on average, and show that this increase is at...
• Contracting, market access and deforestation AI翻译
  作者：Abman, Ryan; Lundberg, Clark
  作者单位：California State University System; San Diego State University
  摘要：We study the impacts of market access on forest loss in Ghana through a program designed to increase smallholder participation in oil palm commodity markets. Improved market access is facilitated through production contracts in which smallholders receive credit to establish production, a guaranteed price and quantity for the contract duration, and output pickup at the village. Using a variety of difference-in-differences approaches, we find substantial increases in forest loss in targeted vill...
• Estimating seed demand in the presence of market frictions: Evidence from an auction experiment in Nigeria AI翻译
  作者：Wossen, Tesfamicheal; Spielman, David J.; Alene, Arega D.; Abdoulaye, Tahirou
  作者单位：CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
  摘要：This paper measures the effect of seed quality misperceptions on bidding behavior and demand for high-quality seed using an information-provision experiment within an incentive-compatible Vickery Second Price (SPA) auction mechanism that mimics seed purchasing decisions in the presence of seed market frictions. We find that most individuals are prone to quality misperception and revise their bids upwards (downwards) in response to positive (negative) quality signals. In addition, by exploiting...
• The enduring trauma: How officials' childhood famine experiences affect year-end spending surge AI翻译
  作者：Chen, Xing; Zhang, Peng; Zhang, Ping; Zhuge, Andong
  作者单位：Fudan University; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
  摘要：This study investigates the impact of government officials' childhood famine experiences on year-end spending surges (YESS), a phenomenon where organizations rush to spend unspent funds at fiscal year-end. We propose that early-life famine trauma fosters fiscal conservatism, leading to underutilized budgets, but the use it or lose it rule forces spending by the fiscal deadline. Analyzing data from Chinese cities (2008-2018), we find that officials who experienced famine in childhood significan...
• Allocating labor across small firms: Experimental evidence on information constraints AI翻译
  作者：Hardy, Morgan; Kim, Seongyoon; Mccasland, Jamie; Menzel, Andreas; Witte, Marc
  作者单位：New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of British Columbia; Czech Academy of Sciences; Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Charles University Prague; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; IZA Institute Labor Economics
  摘要：We document interest in labor reallocation among small firm owners in Ghana; 60% and 41%, respectively, self-report willingness to hire or work for the average local firm owner. Firm owners also exhibit high willingness-to-pay for information on a random subset of hiring firms and jobseeking firm owners during a Becker-Degroot-Marschak exercise. Conditionally random variation in access to this information generates immediate labor adjustments within and between firms, though rarely of firm own...
• Does survey mode matter? Comparing in-person and phone agricultural surveys in India AI翻译
  作者：Anderson, Ellen; Lybbert, Travis J.; Shenoy, Ashish; Singh, Rupika; Stein, Daniel
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
  摘要：Ubiquitous mobile phone ownership makes phone surveying an attractive method of low-cost data collection. We explore differences between in-person and phone survey measures of agricultural production collected for an impact evaluation in India. Phone responses have greater mean and variance, a difference that persists even within a subset of respondents that answered the same question over both modes. Treatment effect estimation remains stable across survey mode, but estimates are less precise...
• When beer is safer than water: Beer availability and mortality from waterborne illnesses AI翻译
  作者：Antman, Francisca M.; Flynn, James M.
  作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
  摘要：We investigate the impact of beer on mortality during the Industrial Revolution in 18th century England. Due to the brewing process, beer represented an improvement over available water sources during this period prior to the widespread understanding of the link between water quality and human health. Using a wide range of identification strategies to derive measures of beer scarcity driven by tax increases, weather events, and soil quality, we show that beer scarcity was associated with highe...
• Using technology to prevent fraud in high stakes national school examinations: Evidence from Indonesia AI翻译
  作者：Berkhout, Emilie; Pradhan, Menno; Rahmawati; Suryadarma, Daniel; Swarnata, Arya
  作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam; Tinbergen Institute
  摘要：Cheating reduces the signaling value of examinations. It also shifts the focus of teachers and students away from learning. Combating widespread cheating is difficult as students, teachers, and bureaucrats all benefit from high reported grades. We evaluate the impact of computer -based testing (CBT), an at -scale policy implemented by the Indonesian government to reduce widespread cheating in the national examinations. Exploiting the phased roll -out of the program from 2015 to 2019, we find t...
• Economic development and known natural resource endowment: Discovery rate differentials of oil AI翻译
  作者：Hamang, Jonas
  摘要：The location of oil reserves plays an essential role in policymakers' incentives to coordinate supply-side climate policy. In this paper I use data on the location of all historic onshore petroleum discoveries to establish a new stylized fact: Economically developed areas are many times more likely to contain an oil or gas discovery, compared to undeveloped areas. I show that this result is not driven reverse causality or confounding geology. By implication, there exist large additional undisc...
• Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain AI翻译
  作者：Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Semrau, Finn Ole; Steglich, Frauke
  作者单位：Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz; University of Passau; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Leibniz Association; Institut fur Weltwirtschaft an der Universitat Kiel (IFW)
  摘要：Locating substantial parts of the production process in developing and emerging economies, many firms face an increasing demand by stakeholders for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their value chains. Contractual incompleteness between firms and their suppliers at different stages of production can exacerbate the ability to meet these demands. We analyze a model of sequential production with incomplete contracts where CSR by independent suppliers differentiates the final product in ...