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作者：Rozo, Sandra V.; Sviatschi, Micaela
作者单位：Princeton University
摘要：What are the impacts of large inflows of refugees on refugee-hosting housing markets? We examine the effects of the arrival of 1.3 million Syrian refugees on the housing expenditures and income of Jordanian nationals. For this purpose, we exploit that refugees disproportionately locate around the three largest refugee camps after the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011. Larger refugee inflows are reflected in two main trends: higher housing expenditures of all Jordanians and increments in...
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作者：Kruse, Hendrik W.; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inma; Baghdadi, Leila
作者单位：University of Gottingen; Universite de Orleans; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universite de Orleans; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universitat Jaume I; Universite de Tunis
摘要：In this paper we investigate whether trade liberalization leads to more stringent product standards in a developing country context, uncovering the role that the connected firms' market share plays in markets dominated by imports. We estimate a two-part model using data over the period from 2002 to 2010 to test whether additional product standards emerge in sectors where politically connected firms have a higher market share. Our main results show that the mechanisms we anticipated are in fact...
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作者：Ayalew, Shibiru; Manian, Shanthi; Sheth, Ketki
作者单位：Adama Science & Technology University; Washington State University; University of California System; University of California Merced
摘要：Globally, women are underrepresented in leadership positions. A potential explanation is that gender discrimination by subordinates reduces the effectiveness of female leadership. Using a lab-in-the-field experiment in Ethiopia, we test whether leader gender affects the way subjects respond to leadership. We find subjects are ten percent less likely to follow the same advice from a female leader than an otherwise identical male leader. Subjects also give lower evaluations to hypothetical femal...
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作者：Mookherjee, Dilip; Napel, Stefan
作者单位：Boston University; University of Bayreuth
摘要：We study efficiency and distributional effects of conditioning transfers on educational investments by parents, in an OLG model with missing financial markets and heterogeneity of learning ability. Conditional cash transfers (CCT) can be designed to generate a Pareto improvement relative to either laissez faire, or unconditional transfers such as universal basic income proposals. This applies irrespective of whether the status quo involves underinvestment or overinvestment in education from a ...
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作者：Arouna, Aminou; Michler, Jeffrey D.; Lokossou, Jourdain C.
作者单位：CGIAR; Africa Rice Center; University of Arizona
摘要：Contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. We present results from a field experiment on contract farming for rice production in Benin. While all contracts have positive effects on welfare and productivity measures, we find that the simplest contract has impacts nearly as large as contracts with additional attribut...
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作者：McGavock, Tamara
作者单位：Grinnell College
摘要：Child marriage is still common in the developing world: in 2012, one in three women was married by age 18, with more than 10% married before age 15. Beginning in 2000, Ethiopia's semi-autonomous regions raised the legal minimum age of marriage from 15 to 18. This study leverages the natural experiment arising from the staggered roll out of the policy in a difference-in-differences and event study framework. The results suggest that the reform delayed women's marriage, and in particular delayed...
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作者：Bahety, Girija; Bauhoff, Sebastian; Patel, Dev; Potter, James
作者单位：Tufts University; Tufts University; Harvard University; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Harvard University
摘要：We conduct an adaptive randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a SMS-based information campaign on the adoption of social distancing and handwashing in rural Bihar, India, six months into the COVID-19 pandemic. We test 10 arms that vary in delivery timing and message framing, changing content to highlight gains or losses for either one's own family or community. We identify the optimal treatment separately for each targeted behavior by adaptively allocating shares across arms ove...
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作者：Balima, Hippolyte W.; Sokolova, Anna
作者单位：Universite de Orleans; Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Reno; HSE University (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
摘要：We examine 994 estimates of the effects of IMF programs on economic growth as reported by 36 studies. The mean reported effect is positive, but the estimates vary widely. We use meta-regression analysis to disentangle sources of this variation, addressing model uncertainty with Bayesian Model Averaging and LASSO. We find that estimates vary systematically depending on data and methods employed by the researchers. Reported effects of IMF programs tend to be more positive for samples that includ...
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作者：Aggarwal, Shilpa
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB)
摘要：Despite demand-stimulation efforts, coverage rates of many essential health services remain low in developing countries, suggesting that there may be binding supply constraints, such as poor access to healthcare facilities. This paper utilizes quasi-random variation in road-pavement intensity to study the impact of improved access on adoption of reproductive health services. I find that road construction led to more institutional antenatal visits and deliveries, which translated into better me...
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作者：Maffioli, Elisa M.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：This paper investigates whether political incentives affect the government's response during a health epidemic and the subsequent effects on citizens' voting behavior. Leveraging novel data, I study this question in the context of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Liberia. The national incumbent government appropriately prioritized the allocation of resources to villages affected by the epidemic. By building a spatiotemporal epidemiological model that estimates the ex-ante optimal allocation of relie...
