Journal of Development Economics

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• Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods AI翻译
  作者：Ambler, Kate; Herskowitz, Sylvan; Maredia, Mywish K.
  作者单位：CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Michigan State University
  摘要：Effective policy requires an accurate understanding of peoples' livelihoods activities. The data for this evidence is often generated via lengthy surveys where designated respondents provide information about their household members. This burden on respondents may lead to both losses and biases as they grow fatigued during the interview. We test these hypotheses with an experiment in rural Ghana where we randomize individual household members' position in the labor module. We find that moving ...
• Subsidies for technology adoption: Experimental evidence from rural Cameroon AI翻译
  作者：Meriggi, Niccolo F.; Bulte, Erwin; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq
  作者单位：Wageningen University & Research; Yale University
  摘要：We use a two-stage experiment to study how a short-term subsidy for a new product affects uptake, usage, and future demand for the same product (a new solar lamp). We use an auction design to gauge willingness-to-pay, and randomly vary the strike price across villages to create random variation in purchase prices and uptake across villages. Our main results are that subsidies do not adversely affect subsequent product use, but stimulate uptake. If subsidies depress future willingness-to-pay, t...
• Ethnic switching: Longitudinal evidence on prevalence, correlates, and implications for measuring ethnic segregation AI翻译
  作者：Rademakers, Robbert; van Hoorn, Andre
  作者单位：Radboud University Nijmegen
  摘要：Ethnic divisions are prominent in many countries and associated with various societal ills, ranging from discrimination to violence and intra-state conflict. Commonly seen as exogenous, individuals' ethnicity is not necessarily fixed or unmalleable, however. We first use individual-level panel data for Indonesia, the U.S. and India, to document the prevalence of generic, undirected intra-individual ethnicity change. Second, we focus on potential correlates of ethnic switching and find that eth...
• Contingent determinants AI翻译
  作者：Maseland, Robbert
  作者单位：University of Groningen
  摘要：We study the channels through which 'deep' historical or geographical determinants of development are connected to present outcomes. We distinguish three classes of theoretical processes that explain this connection-persistence, path-dependence due to multiple equilibria, and transitions between growth regimes-and explore the implications of each for the evolution of deep determinants' impacts. Replicating the analyses of 43 determinants identified in the literature at different points in time...
• The globalization of refugee flows AI翻译
  作者：Devictor, Xavier; Do, Quy-Toan; Levchenko, Andrei A.
  作者单位：The World Bank; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about refugees today compared with past decades. Refugees still predominantly reside in developing countries neighboring their country of origin. However, compared to past decades, refugees today (i) travel longer distances, (ii) are less likely to seek protection in a neighboring country, (iii) are less geographically concentrated, and (iv) are more likely to reside in a high-income ...
• Female employment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from Syrian Refugee inflows to Turkey* AI翻译
  作者：Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar
  作者单位：Northeastern University; Wellesley College
  摘要：We investigate the impact of female employment on intimate partner violence by exploiting the differential arrivals of Syrian refugees across Turkish provinces as an exogenous labor market shock. By employing a distance-based instrument, we find that refugee inflows caused a decline in female employment with no significant impact on male employment. This decline led to a reduction in intimate partner violence, without changes in partner characteristics, gender attitudes, co-residence patterns,...
• Can community service grants foster social and economic integration for youth? A randomized trial in Kazakhstan AI翻译
  作者：Bhanot, Syon P.; Crost, Benjamin; Leight, Jessica; Mvukiyehe, Eric; Yedgenov, Bauyrzhan
  作者单位：Swarthmore College; University of Calgary; CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Duke University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
  摘要：Integrating youth into communities and labor markets is a major challenge for developing countries, and incentives for community service are an increasingly popular tool to achieve this goal. We use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the Kazakhstan Youth Corps (KYC), a program comprising cash grants for community service projects and life skills training, on social capital for a sample of youth aged 18-29. We find little evidence that engaging youth in civic service and training has any...
• Keeping it in the family: Female inheritance, inmarriage, and the status of women AI翻译
  作者：Bahrami-Rad, Duman
  作者单位：Harvard University
  摘要：While female property ownership is associated with positive outcomes for women, their right to inherit property in patrilineal societies may also result in more constraining marriage norms. I test the following hypothesis: Where a woman inherits property, her male relatives are more likely to arrange her marriage to a cousin in order to keep her share of property within the male lineage. The increase in unearned income due to female inheritance also reduces women's economic participation, espe...
• The long-term consequences of China's Later, Longer, Fewer campaign in old age AI翻译
  作者：Chen, Yi; Fang, Hanming
  作者单位：ShanghaiTech University; University of Pennsylvania; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：We examine how China's Later, Longer, Fewer (LLF) policies in the early 1970s affect the quality of life of the Chinese elderly forty years later. We identify the causal impact of the LLF policies by exploiting the provincial heterogeneity in policy implementation. We find that the LLF policies reduced the total fertility rate by 1.57 from 1969 to 1978, explaining about half of the decline in fertility during this period. Parents do not receive fewer financial support as a consequence, but the...
• Measuring the unmeasured: Aggregating, anchoring, and adjusting to estimate small business performance AI翻译
  作者：Anderson, Stephen J.; Lazicky, Christy; Zia, Bilal
  作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; The World Bank
  摘要：Business sales and profits for small firms are notoriously difficult to measure, with multiple sources of measurement and recall error. This paper introduces a new survey methodology that combines data triangulation with dynamic adjustment to arrive at plausible estimates of these performance outcomes. Business data across three emerging markets show this aggregating, anchoring, and adjusting (AAA) method consistently outperforms the traditional self-reported measure of sales, while the improv...