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作者：Anti, Sebastian
作者单位：Bryn Mawr College
摘要：Large-scale Land Acquisitions (LSLAs), often labeled land grabs, are long-term leases of land obtained by private companies. I merge data on the precise locations of 236 LSLAs in Cambodia established between 1996 and 2012 with newly geocoded data from the Cambodian Socio-Economic Surveys to estimate the effects of LSLAs on employment, household spending, and agricultural investment. I find that LSLAs cause a shift away from independent agricultural production towards employment in agricultural...
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作者：Hess, Simon; Jaimovich, Dany; Schuendeln, Matthias
作者单位：Goethe University Frankfurt; Universidad de Talca
摘要：Environmental effects of development programs are the subject of an ongoing debate. We contribute to this debate by studying effects of a randomly allocated, nationwide development program in The Gambia on deforestation, focusing on parts of the country with meaningful baseline forest cover. Our main finding is that the program caused significant increases in annual forest loss. Conservative benchmark estimates imply that 5.6% of all forest loss occurring within 1km of treatment villages durin...
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作者：Sadish, D.; Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Dispelling misinformation during crises is critical to public health. But information can also induce distress. We ask whether the mode of information delivery affects mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. We randomized Indian migrant workers to receive Covid-19-related information through text messages, a pre-recorded audio message, or live phone calls. Phone calls increased knowledge among individuals without smartphones and reduced depression and anxiety overall. The amount of informa...
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作者：Bhalotra, Sonia; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Iyer, Lakshmi
作者单位：University of Warwick; University of Kent; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Debates around abortion typically invoke religion and politics but there is no causal evidence of the impact of politician religion on abortion. Leveraging quasi-random variation in politician religion generated by close elections in India and controlling for the party affiliation of politicians, we find lower rates of sex-selective abortion in districts won by Muslim state legislators, consistent with a higher reported aversion to abortion among Muslims compared to Hindus. The competing hypot...
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作者：Gulesci, Selim; Puente-Beccar, Manuela; Ubfal, Diego
作者单位：Trinity College Dublin; Bocconi University; The World Bank
摘要：This paper shows that a youth empowerment program in Bolivia reduced the reported prevalence of violence against girls during the COVID-19 lockdown. The program offered training in soft skills and technical skills, sexual education, mentoring and job-finding assistance. To measure the effects of the program, the study conducted a randomized control trial with 600 vulnerable adolescents. Results indicate that 7 months after its completion, the program increased girls' earnings and decreased vio...
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作者：Lu, Frances; Siddiqui, Sameem; Bharadwaj, Prashant
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要：To learn more about the long-term consequences of displacement on women, we examine the marriage market outcomes of forcibly displaced women. Using data from 12 representative surveys in 7 countries, we document that women who are adolescents at the time of displacement are more likely to be married. This pattern is robust to choice of comparison group and across countries. We do not find this pattern for displaced adolescent men. We provide additional evidence on this relationship by using un...
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作者：Fan, Haichao; Peng, Yuchao; Wang, Huanhuan; Xu, Zhiwei
作者单位：Fudan University; Central University of Finance & Economics; Central University of Finance & Economics; East China Normal University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; East China Normal University
摘要：This paper investigates how green credit regulation affects firms' loan conditions and their economic and environmental performance. In a simple theoretical model, with strengthened green credit regulations, banks raise loan interest rates to nonabatement firms. Firms that were formerly indifferent to pollution abatement must redetermine their abatement and production strategies. Using disaggregated firm-level data, we find that, after the reinforcement of green credit regulation, noncompliant...
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作者：Bas, Maria; Paunov, Caroline
作者单位：heSam Universite; Universite Pantheon-Sorbonne; Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD)
摘要：This paper tests for the production complementarity between firms' access to high-quality intermediate inputs and their skill composition and their joint impact on output quality. Using census data at firm-product level for Ecuador for 1997-2007, we exploit exogenous tariff changes at Ecuador's entry to the World Trade Organization to show that input tariff cuts allow firms to upgrade their input quality. Next, we demonstrate by means of within-firm instrumental variable estimations that firms...
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作者：Huntington, Heather; Shenoy, Ajay
作者单位：Duke University; University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz
摘要：There is broad agreement among the most prominent observational studies that tenure insecurity deters invest-ment. We present new experimental evidence testing this proposition: a land certification program randomized across villages in Zambia. Our results contradict the consensus. Though the intervention improved perceptions of tenure security, it had no impact on investment in the following season. The impact is still zero even after a cross-randomized agroforestry extension relaxes financia...
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作者：Hasan, Rana; Jiang, Yi; Rafols, Radine Michelle
作者单位：Asian Development Bank; Syracuse University
摘要：We evaluate a tax-exemption program initiated by the Indian government in 1994 to promote manufacturing in districts designated as industrially backward on the basis of a continuous gradation score that reflected district characteristics in early 1990s. Employing a regression discontinuity design, we find that the program led to a significant increase in firm entry and employment, especially in light manufacturing industries of the better-off backward districts in the short run. However, this ...
