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作者：Hiller, Victor; Toure, Nouhoum
作者单位：Universite Paris-Pantheon-Assas
摘要：A large body of evidence suggests that women's empowerment, both within the household and in politics, benefits to children and has the potential to promote economic development. Nevertheless, the existing interactions between these two facets of empowerment have not been considered thus far. The aim of the present paper is to fill this gap by proposing a theoretical framework in which women's bargaining power within both the private sphere and the public sphere is endogenous. We show that the...
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作者：Wright, Nicholas A.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida Gulf Coast University
摘要：Designing an effective framework for financing higher education is a key objective of policymakers in developed and developing countries. While we have a good understanding of how college financing options affect students? college outcomes in developed countries, less is known about the impact of these programs in developing coun-tries. In this paper, I employ several quasi-experimental designs and novel administrative data from Jamaica to estimate the effect of need-based grants and student l...
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作者：Gonzalez, Felipe; Munoz, Pablo; Prem, Mounu
作者单位：Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Universidad del Rosario
摘要：We look at Chile's transition to democracy in 1990 to study the persistence of authoritarian politics at the local level. Using new data on the universe of mayors appointed by the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) and leveraging on the arbitrary election rules that characterized the first local election in 1992, we present two main findings. First, dictatorship mayors obtained a vote premium that is larger among the last wave of incumbents and appears partially explained by an increase in loca...
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作者：Liu, Qing; Lu, Ruosi; Lu, Yi; Tuan Anh Luong
作者单位：Renmin University of China; University of International Business & Economics; Tsinghua University; Tsinghua University; De Montfort University
摘要：This paper investigates whether and how import competition affects firm innovation. Using China's World Trade Organization (WTO) accession as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that import competition reduces firm innovation, which is consistent with the Schumpeterian effect We also find heterogeneous treatment effects across firm productivity and patent types in a way consistent with preference and knowledge spillover effects, but not with escape-competition and trapped-factor effects.
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作者：Das, Narayan
作者单位：Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee BRAC; BRAC University
摘要：This paper estimates the effects of a youth training program in Bangladesh on labor market outcomes. The program, organized as a randomized controlled trial , provides on-the-job and classroom training to disadvantaged unemployed youth. ITT results show that six months after the intervention, on-the-job training increases labor market participation by 16 percentage points and earnings by 23%. The effect on employment declines in the long-run, after 22 months, but the effect on earnings is sust...
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作者：Yamada, Takahiro; Yamada, Hiroyuki
作者单位：The World Bank; Keio University
摘要：This study investigates the long-term causal effects of U.S. bombing missions during the Vietnam War on later economic development in Laos. Following an instrumental variables approach, we use the distance between the centroid of village-level administrative boundaries and heavily bombed targets, namely, the Ho Chi Minh Trail in southern Laos and Xieng Khouang Province in northern Laos, as an instrument for the intensity of U.S. bombing missions. We use three datasets of mean nighttime light i...
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作者：Bai, Chong-En; Chi, Wei; Liu, Tracy Xiao; Tang, Chao; Xu, Jian
作者单位：Tsinghua University; Tsinghua University; Tsinghua University
摘要：In this study, we conduct a large-scale field experiment in the Guangdong province of China to examine the effect of informing individuals about government pension programs on their pension enrollment decisions and household consumption. Our field experiment lasts 12 months and involves 2539 individuals from 1064 households randomly selected from three cities in Guangdong. We send an informational brochure to participants, designed differently for those in the control and treatment groups, and...
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作者：Suri, Tavneet; Bharadwaj, Prashant; Jack, William
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of California System; University of California San Diego; Georgetown University
摘要：Developing country lenders are taking advantage of fintech tools to create fully digital loans on mobile phones. Using administrative and survey data, we study the take up and impacts of one of the most popular digital loan products in the world, M-Shwari in Kenya. While 34% of those eligible for a loan take it, the loan does not substitute for other credit. The loans improve household resilience: households are 6.3 percentage points less likely to forego expenses due to negative shocks. Finte...
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作者：Islam, Asad; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Nicholas, Aaron
作者单位：Monash University; Deakin University
摘要：We conduct a randomized field experiment to investigate the benefits of an intensive chess training program undertaken by primary school students in a developing country context. We examine the effects on academic outcomes, and a number of non-cognitive outcomes: risk preferences, patience, creativity and attention/focus. Our main finding is that chess training reduces the level of risk aversion almost a year after the intervention ended. We also find that chess training improves math scores, ...
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作者：Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Tumen, Semih
作者单位：European Bank of Reconstructon & Development; Ted University; University of London; King's College London; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：Can high-quality local governance alleviate the environmental impact of large-scale refugee migration? The recent surge in refugee flows has brought additional challenges to local governments in Europe, the Middle East, and certain regions of Africa and Asia. In this paper, we focus on the case of Syrian refugees in Turkey and show that quality of local governance plays a critical role in mitigating environmental deterioration. Following the World Bank's Local Governance Performance Index, we ...
