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作者：Lyu, Xueying
作者单位：Nankai University; Nankai University
摘要：This paper investigates the differential impacts of a unique car restriction policy - the car purchase lottery in Beijing - on the housing markets across locations within the city. I use a difference-in-differences approach to compare heterogeneous neighborhoods before and after the implementation of the policy. Housing prices experience a relative increase at locations closer to common destinations (employment centers: 0.7% per kilometer; primary schools: 3.3% per kilometer) and with better a...
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作者：Macedoni, Luca
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：I study the welfare effects of trade in the presence of large firms producing multiple varieties. Large multiproduct exporters dominate trade flows and their scope decisions have new implications for the welfare gains from trade. Using exporter-level data from 11 source countries, I document two stylized facts for large multiproduct exporters. First, the product scope increases with the level of development of the destination proxied by per capita income. Second, as evidence of cannibalization...
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作者：Ajzenman, Nicolas; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Guriev, Sergei
作者单位：Getulio Vargas Foundation; IZA Institute Labor Economics; European Bank of Reconstructon & Development; University of London; King's College London; Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po); Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：Does exposure to mass migration affect the attitudes and economic behavior of natives in transit countries? In order to answer this question, we use a unique locality-level panel from the 2010 and 2016 rounds of the Life in Transition Survey and data on the main land routes taken by migrants in 18 European countries during the refugee crisis in 2015. To capture the exogenous variation in natives' exposure to transit migration, we construct an instrument that is based on each locality's distanc...
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作者：Badaoui, Eliane; Walsh, Frank
作者单位：University College Dublin
摘要：Many informal firms in developing countries would not be viable if they were to comply with the minimum wage law. This means the authorities have an incentive to turn a blind eye to non-enforcement in a substantial share of firms. We also survey enforcement mechanisms for the minimum wage across developing countries and find that worker complaints are an important element in determining whether firms will be inspected for non-compliance or not. We develop a theoretical monopsony model which ra...
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作者：Romero, Mauricio; Bedoya, Juan; Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Silveyra, Marcela; de Hoyos, Rafael
作者单位：Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico; Universidad de Cantabria; The World Bank
摘要：We use a large-scale randomized experiment (across 1,198 public primary schools in Mexico) to study the impact of providing schools directly with high-quality managerial training by professional trainers vis-a-vis through a cascade-style train the trainer model. The training focused on improving principals' capacities to collect and use data to monitor students' basic numeracy and literacy skills and to provide feedback to teachers on their instruction and pedagogical practices. After two year...
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作者：Premand, Patrick; Barry, Oumar
作者单位：The World Bank; University Cheikh Anta Diop Dakar
摘要：Signs of development delays and malnutrition are widespread among young children in low-income settings. Social protection programs such as cash transfers are increasingly combined with behavioral change promotion or parenting interventions to improve early childhood development. This paper disentangles the effects of behavioral change promotion from cash transfers to poor households through an experiment embedded in a government program in Niger. The study is also designed to identify within-...
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作者：Jamil, Nida; Chaudhry, Theresa Thompson; Chaudhry, Azam
作者单位：Lahore School of Economics
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作者：Bradford, Scott C.; Negi, Digvijay Singh; Ramaswami, Bharat
作者单位：Brigham Young University; Ashoka University
摘要：The global output of food staples is far more stable than most individual nations' outputs, but does this lead to consumption risk sharing? This paper applies tools from the risk sharing literature to address this question for rice, wheat, and maize, using a multilateral risk sharing model that, unlike the canonical model, accounts for trade costs. While the data show that optimal risk sharing does not occur, the wheat market comes closest to the idealized model. Our analysis also implies that...
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作者：Boberg-Fazlic, Nina; Lampe, Markus; Martinelli Lasheras, Pablo; Sharp, Paul
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark; Vienna University of Economics & Business; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
摘要：Pro-market and pro-farmer agrarian reforms enacted in eighteenth century Denmark laid the basis for rural development but we demonstrate that they also resulted in increased inequality. We investigate this using a novel parish-level database spanning more than two centuries. We identify the impact of land quality on inequality following the reforms by instrumenting with soil type and find increases in areas with more productive land. We propose and find evidence for a mechanism whereby agraria...
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作者：Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart C.; Wong, Melvin H. L.
作者单位：University of Bern; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Gottingen; Deutsches Institut Entwicklungspolitik (DIE); Leibniz Association; Institut fur Weltwirtschaft an der Universitat Kiel (IFW)
摘要：China's development model challenges the approaches of traditional donors like the World Bank (WB). While some see this mostly as a chance, Chinese aid specifically and aid in general are also suspected of undermining developing countries' stability for various reasons. To examine the effect of aid on stability thoroughly, we define stability as a continuum ranging from outright over social conflict to attitudes about democracy. We find no evidence that either WB or Chinese aid increases confl...
