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作者：Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Fenske, James; Khanna, Gaurav; Nyshadham, Anant
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Warwick; University of California System; University of California San Diego; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Evidence suggests that natural resources have driven conflict and underdevelopment in modern Africa. We show that this relationship exists primarily when neighboring regions are resource-rich. When neighbors are resource-poor, own resources instead drive economic growth. To motivate the empirical study of this set of facts, we present a simple model of parties engaged in potential conflict over resources, revealing that economic prosperity is a function of equilibrium conflict prevalence, dete...
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作者：Arraiz, Irani; Bruhn, Miriam; Roth, Benjamin N.; Ruiz-Ortega, Claudia; Stucchi, Rodolfo
作者单位：The World Bank; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Harvard University; Universidad de San Andres Argentina
摘要：We provide evidence that commercial lenders in Peru suffer leakages in their loan approval process. Leveraging a discontinuity in the loan approval process of a large bank, we find that receiving a loan approval from the bank causes loan applicants to receive offers from other financial institutions as well. Competing lenders captured almost three quarters of the new loans to previously financially excluded borrowers. Importantly, many of these borrowers never took a loan from our partner bank...
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作者：Bertoli, Simone; Ozden, Caglar; Packard, Michael
作者单位：Universite Clermont Auvergne (UCA); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); The World Bank; Georgetown University
摘要：We use mobile phone usage data to measure the extent of segregation of Syrian refugees in Turkey, and analyze its role in their internal mobility patterns. We construct a range of dissimilarity and normalized isolation indices using the hourly phone call volume of refugees and natives. The richness of the data allows us to compute the indices across different provinces and over time. Segregation levels show high variation across the country, with significantly lower levels of segregation in pr...
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作者：Fan, Jingting; Zou, Ben
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Michigan State University
摘要：This paper investigates whether temporary subsidies to the manufacturing sector at an early stage of structural transformation stimulate economic development. We study the Construction of Third Front (TF), a massive yet short-lived industrialization campaign in China's under-developed hinterland. Motivated by defense considerations, location choices of TF projects followed a peculiar set of criteria, which generates plausibly exogenous variation in manufacturing capacity before market reforms ...
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作者：Gerritse, Michiel
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：When opening up to trade, countries specialize according to their comparative advantage. However, developing countries are often disadvantaged in production that requires contract enforcement or other institutions. Such specialization could be detrimental, as it might eliminate the demand for property rights in developing countries. I examine the development of product trade patterns in East-African countries that suffered longer trade routes during the war-induced closure of the Suez Canal (F...
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作者：Magnan, Nicholas; Hoffmann, Vivian; Opoku, Nelson; Garrido, Gissele Gajate; Kanyam, Daniel Akwasi
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); University for Development Studies
摘要：The quality of agricultural products can affect both farm incomes and the healthfulness of farm families' diets. However, many quality attributes are hard to observe, making it difficult for farmers to learn how to improve the quality of their crops. Lack of premium pass-through and the cost of quality-enhancing inputs are additional bafflers to improving output quality. In this paper, we examine the relative importance of each of these bafflers to smallholder adoption of technologies for redu...
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作者：Jaschke, Philipp; Keita, Sekou
摘要：Moving to rich countries usually results in substantial increases in income for migrants. However, high migration costs entail that only selected groups of potential migrants actually migrate. The availability of language learning facilities in a country could reduce costs of acquiring destination-specific skills and influence the self-selection of migrants. We combine survey data from immigrant cohorts between 2000 and 2014 with data on the country-year specific presence of Goethe Institutes ...
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作者：Bottan, Nicolas; Hoffmann, Bridget; Vera-Cossio, Diego A.
作者单位：Cornell University; Inter-American Development Bank
摘要：We use a regression discontinuity design to study the impacts of a noncontributory pension program covering one-third of Bolivian households during the COVID-19 pandemic. Becoming eligible for the program during the crisis increased the probability that households had a week?s worth of food stocked by 25% and decreased the probability of going hungry by 40%. Although the program was not designed to provide emergency assistance, it provided unintended positive impacts during the crisis. The pro...
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作者：Feyrer, James
作者单位：Dartmouth College
摘要：This paper exploits a temporary shock to distance, the closing of the Suez canal in 1967 and its reopening in 1975, to examine the effect of distance on trade and the effect of trade on income. Time series variation in sea distance allows for the inclusion of pair effects which account for static differences in tastes and culture between countries. Distance is found to have a significant impact on trade with an elasticity that is about half as large as estimates from typical cross sectional es...
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作者：Garcia-Ramos, Aixa
作者单位：University of Passau
摘要：This paper examines whether divorce laws affect intimate partner violence (IPV) in the context of a developing country. Exploiting the state-level variation in the timing of the introduction of unilateral and no-fault divorce in Mexico, I estimate the causal effect of easier access to divorce on male-to-female IPV. The results show that IPV does not change in the short term, whereas it increases by 3.7 percentage points in the long term. These results are driven by women who remain married aft...
