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作者：Mo, Jiawei; Qiu, Larry D.; Zhang, Hongsong; Dong, Xiaoyu
作者单位：Peking University; Lingnan University; University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)
摘要：This paper investigates the distinct effects of capital and intermediates imports on firms' productivity growth, and quantifies the importance of tariff structure in trade liberalization in developing countries. Using a large panel of Chinese manufacturing firms, we demonstrate that capital import has a substantially larger productivity effect than intermediates import. On the one hand, while both types of imports exert immediate effects on productivity, only capital import has dynamic product...
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作者：Tan, Zhibo; Wei, Shang-Jin; Zhang, Xiaobo
作者单位：Fudan University; International Monetary Fund; National Bureau of Economic Research; Columbia University; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR); Columbia University; Peking University; CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
摘要：We examine an indirect but potentially deadly consequence of the missing girls phenomenon. A shortage of brides causes many parents with sons of marriageable age to work harder and seek higher-paying but dangerous jobs. In response, employers invest less in workplace safety, which in turn increases work-related mortality. Drawing from a broad range of data sets and taking advantage of large regional and temporal variations in sex ratios in China, we demonstrate that in areas with more severe s...
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作者：Gracio, Matilde; Vicente, Pedro C.
作者单位：Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Universidade Nova de Lisboa
摘要：Political accountability requires informed voters and electoral participation. Both have been lagging in many developing countries like Mozambique. We designed and implemented a field experiment during the 2013 municipal elections in that country. We study the impact on political behavior of location-level distribution of a free newspaper and get-out-the-vote text messages aimed at mobilizing voters. As part of our design, we randomly assigned peers to experimental subjects in order to test fo...
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作者：Fay, Marianne; Martimort, David; Straub, Stephane
作者单位：The World Bank; Paris School of Economics; Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics
摘要：Attracting private financing is high on the agenda of policy makers concerned with closing the infrastructure gap in developing countries. To date, however, private finance represents a minor share of overall infrastructure financing and the poorest countries struggle to attract any private investors. This paper develops a model that rationalizes these facts. We characterize the structure of financial and regulatory infrastructure contracts and derive conditions under which public and private ...
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作者：Li, Bing; Liu, Chang; Sun, Stephen Teng
作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University; Renmin University of China; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：Recent years have seen a sustained decline in the labor share around the world. This paper studies this trend by focusing on the effect of corporate income taxes on firm-level labor shares. From 2010 to 2013, the Chinese central government cut the corporate income tax rate in 21 cities for service firms whose revenue from outsourcing services offshore surpassed half of their total revenue. Leveraging a regression discontinuity design with proprietary administrative data, we find that a one per...
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作者：MacPherson, Claire; Sterck, Olivier
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of Oxford
摘要：Assistance to refugees is shifting from a humanitarian model, which focuses on protection, emergency relief, and shelter, to a development model promoting refugee self-reliance through income-generating activities, market development, and cash transfers. Evidence on the effects of this paradigm shift is limited. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design, this paper tests whether the adoption of a development approach to refugee assistance in a new settlement in Kenya has a positive impact. ...
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作者：Barrows, Geoffrey; Ollivier, Helene
作者单位：Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Ecole Polytechnique; ENSAE Paris; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Paris School of Economics
摘要：Over the past few decades, wealthy countries have relied increasingly on imports from developing countries, prompting concerns regarding the environmental effects of trade. Increased import demand in wealthy countries certainly increases export flows from developing countries, but emissions need not scale 1 for 1 with exports if domestic sales or emission intensity adjust endogenously to foreign demand. In this paper, we exploit detailed product-line information on production and emissions for...
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作者：Shamdasani, Yogita
作者单位：National University of Singapore
摘要：A large share of the world's poor live in remote regions, where high costs associated with limited connectivity constrain economic activity. This paper estimates the effects of improvements in infrastructure under a large rural road-building program on production decisions in agriculture. Remote households that gain access to program roads diversify their crop portfolio, adopt modern agricultural technologies and increase hired labor use. Supporting evidence suggests that program roads increas...
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作者：Tumen, Semih
作者单位：Ted University; IZA Institute Labor Economics
摘要：Existing evidence suggests that low-skilled refugee influx may increase educational attainment among native adolescents due to reduced opportunities and returns in the lower segment of the labor market. In this paper, I test whether refugee influx can also increase the intensity of human capital accumulation among native adolescents who are enrolled in school. Using the PISA micro data and implementing a quasi-experimental empirical strategy designed to exploit (i) the time variation in region...
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作者：Gibson, John; Olivia, Susan; Boe-Gibson, Geua; Li, Chao
作者单位：University of Waikato
摘要：Popular DMSP night lights data are flawed by blurring, top-coding, and lack of calibration. Yet newer and better VIIRS data are rarely used in economics. We compare these two data sources for predicting GDP, especially at the second subnational level, for Indonesia, China and South Africa. The DMSP data are a poor proxy for GDP outside of cities. The gap in predictive performance between DMSP data and VIIRS data is especially apparent at lower levels of the spatial hierarchy, such as for count...
