Journal of Development Economics

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• Public health departments and the mortality transition in Latin America: Evidence from Puerto Rico? AI翻译
  作者：Marein, Brian
  作者单位：University of Toronto
  摘要：This paper examines the role of public health in reducing mortality prior to modern medicine by studying Puerto Rico in the early 20th century. From 1930 to 1960, Puerto Rico experienced one of the fastest increases in life expectancy in history and completed the first mortality transition outside of Europe and Western offshoots. Using municipal-level data in an event study framework, I show that public health units (county health departments) caused around half of the reduction in infant and ...
• Production and persistence of criminal skills: Evidence from a high-crime context AI翻译
  作者：Escobar, Maria A.; Tobon, Santiago; Vanegas-Arias, Martin
  作者单位：Universidad EAFIT
  摘要：We study criminal skills production and persistence by looking at the universe of incarceration spells and violent and non-violent property crime reports in Colombia. Leveraging detailed and geo-coded information, we find that property crime reports are higher around prisons on the days inmates are released. Two types of offenders drive the impacts: (i) property crime specialists-inmates with a prior conviction for violent or non-violent theft; and (ii) trainees-inmates with different criminal...
• How do policymakers update their beliefs? AI翻译
  作者：Vivalt, Eva; Coville, Aidan
  作者单位：University of Toronto; The World Bank
  摘要：We present results from experiments run in collaboration with the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank on how policymakers, policy practitioners, and researchers update their beliefs in response to results from academic studies. Initially, policymakers both believe development programs will have more positive results and are more certain about it than policy practitioners and researchers, despite reporting less familiarity with the programs. When participants are presented with the r...
• Transparency, governance, and water and sanitation: Experimental evidence from schools in rural Bangladesh AI翻译
  作者：Allakulov, Umrbek; Cocciolo, Serena; Das, Binayak; Habib, Md Ahasan; Rambjer, Lovisa; Tompsett, Anna
  作者单位：The World Bank; Royal Institute of Technology; Uppsala University; Stockholm University; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics
  摘要：Can transparency interventions improve WASH service provision? We use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of a transparency intervention, a deliberative multi-stakeholder workshop initiated with a community scorecard exercise, in schools in rural Bangladesh. To measure impacts, we combine survey data, direct observations, and administrative data. The intervention leads to moderate but consistent improvements in knowledge of WASH standards and practices, and institutions for WASH se...
• Public governance versus corporate governance: Evidence from oil drilling in forests AI翻译
  作者：Cust, James; Harding, Torfinn; Krings, Hanna; Rivera-Ballesteros, Alexis
  作者单位：The World Bank; University of Oxford; Universitetet i Stavanger; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); RWTH Aachen University
  摘要：Petroleum companies look for oil and gas in some of the most remote and biodiverse forested areas on the planet. To study how local environmental footprints vary across countries and companies, we combine global company-level geo-coded data on oil drilling with high resolution data on forest loss. We find that oil wells drilled in countries with better public governance, measured by democracy scores, are associated with substantially lower forest loss in the period after drilling. In contrast,...
• Skill bias, financial frictions, and selection into entrepreneurship AI翻译
  作者：Feng, Ying; Ren, Jie
  作者单位：National University of Singapore; Central University of Finance & Economics
  摘要：Financial frictions adversely affect productivity by discouraging entrepreneurship, which is often measured by the self-employed. This paper distinguishes different types of self-employment when studying this question. Using micro data for 77 countries from all income levels, we show that employers' labor shares are increasing with GDP per capita, whereas own-account employment (self-employed without employees) is decreasing. We also find almost universally negative selection on education into...
• Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia AI翻译
  作者：Abate, Gashaw T.; de Brauw, Alan; Hirvonen, Kalle; Wolle, Abdulazize
  作者单位：CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
  摘要：The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries have made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires collecting household consumption data, which is rarely collected by phone. To test the feasibility of collecting consumption data over the phone, we conducted a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia, randomly assigning households to either phone or in-person interview...
• The political impacts of land expropriation in China* AI翻译
  作者：Sha, Wenbiao
  作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University
  摘要：I study the political consequences of state expropriation of agricultural land in rural China by using national individual-level panel data for the period 2010-2018. Comparing outcomes before and after expropriation with changes among individuals not experiencing expropriation, I find that having one's land expropriated decreases individuals' trust towards local government officials, and increases the incidence of having conflicts with local government officials. I also provide evidence that t...
• Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity AI翻译
  作者：Berazneva, Julia; Maertens, Annemie; Mhango, Wezi; Michelson, Hope
  作者单位：Middlebury College; University of Sussex; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  摘要：We examine the relationship between soil heterogeneity and investment in learning among farmers in Malawi using an experimental approach. Soil heterogeneity may both impede social learning and encourage experimentation. In our experiment, farmers contribute towards the purchase of a single soil test in the village in a threshold public goods game. This soil test provides farmers with valuable and actionable information. By randomly varying the plot selected for soil testing we establish the ro...
• Empowering women or increasing response bias? Experimental evidence from Congo AI翻译
  作者：Harris, J. Andrew; van der Windt, Peter
  作者单位：New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi; New York University; New York University Abu Dhabi
  摘要：Women's empowerment interventions are an important component of many development programs; surveys are a popular tool to measure how such programs affect gender-related attitudes. We consider how differences in gender response bias between the treatment and control groups complicate the use of attitudinal questions to evaluate women's empowerment interventions. We examine data from two experiments: a randomized development program aimed to empower women in 1,250 Congolese villages and a follow...