Journal of Development Economics

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• Body and mind: Experimental evidence from women living with HIV AI翻译
  作者：Lubega, Patrick; Nakakawa, Frances; Narciso, Gaia; Newman, Carol; Kaaya, Archileo N.; Kityo, Cissy; Tumuhimbise, Gaston A.
  作者单位：Makerere University; Trinity College Dublin; Joint Clinical Research Center - United Arab Emirates; Makerere University
  摘要：How should we support marginalized individuals? By providing nutritional support for their body or by supporting their mind and allowing them to see their potential? This paper explores ways to improve the welfare of women living with HIV, by addressing two obstacles that they face: the body and the mind. We use a randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of three information-focused treatments: a standard nutritional information campaign, cookery demonstrations and role models. We...
• Weather and population size effects on water and sewer treatment costs: Evidence from Brazil AI翻译
  作者：Danelon, Andre F.; Spolador, Humberto F. S.; Kumbhakar, Subal C.
  作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY; Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
  摘要：The provision of sanitation services generates investments, employment, and income; they contribute to human capital stock accumulation, and, therefore, to economic development. Recent studies suggest that climate change can increase sanitation costs, and it can be a constraint to emerging economies where institutional inefficiencies raise challenges to the universal supply of these services. We combined data of sanitation companies collected by the Brazilian government and the historical weat...
• Refugee camps and deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa AI翻译
  作者：Salemi, Colette
  作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  摘要：To date, there have been few quasi-experimental efforts to evaluate the impact of refugee camps on host landscapes. Yet many stakeholders believe refugee camps lead to deforestation in nearby areas. I use data on camp locations and years of operation as well as secondary geospatial data to produce a high-resolution panel dataset of 0.01 degrees tiles. My difference-in-difference specification with tile fixed effects exploits variation in camp openings and tile proximity to camps. F-tests on ev...
• Doing business in China: Parental background and government intervention determine who owns busines AI翻译
  作者：Jia, Ruixue; Lan, Xiaohuan; Miquel, Gerard Padro i
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Fudan University; Fudan University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Yale University
  摘要：While intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship is a well-known regularity, we hypothesize that in a transition economy where the state retains an important role, those whose parents are government workers may also be more likely to become business owners. We test the hypothesis in China and show that (1) on average, both entrepreneurs and government workers have a higher likelihood of having children who own incorporated businesses and (2) In provinces where government involvement is...
• Regular Targeting humanitarian aid using administrative data: Model design and validation AI翻译
  作者：Altindag, Onur; O'Connell, Stephen D.; Sasmaz, Aytug; Balcioglu, Zeynep; Cadoni, Paola; Jerneck, Matilda; Foong, Aimee Kunze
  作者单位：Bentley University; Emory University; Harvard University; Northeastern University; IZA Institute Labor Economics
  摘要：We develop and assess the performance of an econometric prediction model that relies on administrative data held by international agencies to target over $380 million annually in unconditional cash transfers to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Standard metrics of prediction accuracy suggest targeting using administrative data is comparable to a short-form Proxy Means Test, which requires a survey of the entire target population. We show that small differences in accuracy across approaches are large...
• Collective action in games as in life: Experimental evidence from canal cleaning in Haiti AI翻译
  作者：Turiansky, Abbie
  作者单位：Mathematica
  摘要：This paper explores the impact of exposure to a collective action dilemma in a framed public goods game on farmers' behavior in real-world scenarios characterized by similar strategic trade-offs. From a sample of 841 rice farmers in rural Haiti, I randomly selected 277 to participate in public goods games framed to mimic the real trade-off they face between private work and participation in the management of shared canals. Over the subsequent planting season, the local irrigation association o...
• Trade liberalization, roads and firm productivity AI翻译
  作者：Fiorini, Matteo; Sanfilippo, Marco; Sundaram, Asha
  作者单位：European University Institute; University of Turin; Collegio Carlo Alberto; European University Institute; University of Antwerp; University of Auckland
  摘要：We examine the role of road infrastructure in determining the impact of a reduction in input tariffs on firm productivity. We combine new geo-spatial data on road improvements in Ethiopia with establishment level data on manufacturing firms that allow us to estimate physical productivity. Results show that an input tariff reduction is associated with a larger increase in firm productivity in areas where better roads improve access to other intranational markets. Roads magnify pass-through of t...
• Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe AI翻译
  作者：Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu
  作者单位：European Bank of Reconstructon & Development; University of London; King's College London; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Munich; IZA Institute Labor Economics
  摘要：We provide the first large-scale evidence on self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants who arrived in Europe in 2015 or 2016. Our analysis uses unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls. We find that refugees are positively self-selected with respect to human capital, as are female irregular migrants. Male irregular migrants are negatively self-selected. These patterns hold whether analyzing individually stated main reason to emigrate, cou...
• The new era of unconditional convergence AI翻译
  作者：Patel, Dev; Sandefur, Justin; Subramanian, Arvind
  作者单位：Harvard University
  摘要：The central fact that has motivated the empirics of economic growth-namely unconditional divergence-is no longer true and has not been so for decades. Across a range of data sources, poorer countries have in fact been catching up with richer ones, albeit slowly, since the mid-1990s. This new era of convergence does not stem primarily from growth moderation in the rich world but rather from accelerating growth in the developing world, which has simultaneously become remarkably less volatile and...
• A gravity analysis of refugee mobility using mobile phone data AI翻译
  作者：Beine, Michel; Bertinelli, Luisito; Coemertpay, Rana; Litina, Anastasia; Maystadt, Jean-Francois
  作者单位：University of Luxembourg; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Macedonia; Universite Catholique Louvain; Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS; Lancaster University
  摘要：The objective of this study consists in analyzing the determinants of the internal mobility of refugees in Turkey. We track down this mobility relying on geolocalized mobile phone calls data and bring these measures to a micro founded gravity model in order to estimate the main drivers of refugee mobility across 26 regions in 2017. Our results show that the movements of refugees are sensitive to income differentials and contribute therefore to a more efficient allocation of labor across space....