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作者：Dutta, Indranil; Nogales, Ricardo; Yalonetzky, Gaston
作者单位：University of Manchester; University of Oxford; University of Leeds
摘要：Multidimensional poverty measures have become a standard feature in poverty assessments. A large and growing body of work uses endogenous (data driven) weights to compute multidimensional poverty. We demonstrate that broad classes of endogenous weights violate key properties of poverty indices such as monotonicity and subgroup consistency, without which poverty evaluation and policy targeting are seriously compromised. Using data from Ecuador and Uganda we show that these violations are widesp...
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作者：Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Soundararajan, Vidhya
作者单位：Cornell University; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
摘要：Fixed-term labor contracting has increasingly replaced regular open-ended employment in developing countries. What justifies its emergence? What determines its intensity? What policy responses are appropriate, if any? In a two-tiered task-based model of the labor market, we demonstrate that within establishments, fixed-term contracting can indeed co-exist with open-ended efficiency wage contracts as it enables firms to enforce regular worker discipline at strictly lower cost. Furthermore, the ...
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作者：Shi, Xiangyu; Xi, Tianyang; Zhang, Xiaobo; Zhang, Yifan
作者单位：Yale University; Peking University; CGIAR; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：This paper studies the pattern of interregional investment after bureaucratic transfers across Chinese cities. Using the administrative records of business registration, we find that the transfer of a local leader between prefecture cities is associated with about 3% increase in interregional investment along the direction of transfer. The comoving firms purchase larger parcels of land and at lower prices. They also exhibit a higher likelihood of exiting when the patrons leave the office. Como...
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作者：Guarnieri, Eleonora; Rainer, Helmut
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Munich; University of Exeter
摘要：This paper studies the long-term effects of colonialism on women by utilizing a historical natural experiment: the partition of Cameroon into a British and a French colony between 1919 and 1961. The two colonial regimes opened up divergent economic opportunities for women in an otherwise culturally and geographically homoge-neous setting. Women in British territories gained opportunities to earn cash wages under the same conditions as their male counterparts, while the French colonial practice...
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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：Burchardi, Konrad B.; de Quidt, Jonathan; Gulesci, Selim; Lerva, Benedetta; Tripodi, Stefano
作者单位：Stockholm University; Trinity College Dublin; Trinity College Dublin; Trinity College Dublin; Stockholm School of Economics; The World Bank; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Researchers frequently use variants of the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) mechanism to elicit willingness to pay (WTP). These variants involve numerous incentive-irrelevant design choices, some of which carry advantages for implementation but may deteriorate participant comprehension or trust in the mechanism, which are well-known problems with the BDM. We highlight three such features and test them in the field in rural Uganda, a relevant population for many recent applications. Comprehension ...
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作者：Afridi, Farzana; Debnath, Sisir; Somanathan, E.
作者单位：Indian Statistical Institute; Indian Statistical Institute Delhi; Indian Institute of Technology System (IIT System); Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Delhi
摘要：Air pollution is amongst the gravest public health concerns worldwide, and indoor sources are the largest contributors in many developing countries. In our study in central India, we randomly assigned villages to a campaign by rural public health workers to either raise awareness about the adverse health effects of smoke from cooking with solid fuels and measures to mitigate them, or combined health awareness with information on the universal cash-back LPG (liquid petroleum gas) subsidy progra...
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作者：Li, Wenchao
作者单位：Tongji University
摘要：We examine whether parents who have preference for sons and may practice gender selections, are adequately incorporating the implications of their aggregate preference and behavior. Using a nationally representative random sample of Chinese households, we show that facing high sex ratios (more men than women), parents with a son, relative to parents with a daughter, report lower evaluative, emotional, and eudaimonic well-being. We examine the role of reduced consumption, intensified status com...
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作者：Chang, Pao-Li; Chen, Yuting
作者单位：Singapore Management University; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
摘要：This paper builds a theory based on informal institutions to characterize the comparative advantage of Southbased MNEs. MNEs headquartered in countries with poorer state institutions are shown to endogenously invest more in firm-specific institutional capital to compensate for the lack of state institutions, and as an optimal response, undertake FDI in countries with weaker institutions. We conduct an extensive test of the theory using worldwide firm-level greenfield FDI flows during 2009-2016...
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作者：Liu, Mengdi; Tan, Ruipeng; Zhang, Bing
作者单位：University of International Business & Economics; Nanjing University; Nanjing University
摘要：To cope with the stricter environmental regulation, manufacturing firms need to carry out pollution reduction activities and change their optimal production decisions, which may affect their labor demand. Using a ten-year firm-level panel dataset (1998-2007), we use an estimation technique pairing propensity score matching (PSM) with a difference-in-differences (DID) estimator to examine the impacts of a national air pollution control policy on employment in China. We find that China's Key Cit...
