During health crises, like COVID-19, individuals are inundated with messages promoting health- preserving behavior. Does additional light-touch messaging by a credible individual change behavior? Do t... Section: Working Papers
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 01 Jul 2020 Reverse mortgages provide an alternative source of retirement funding by allowing older homeowners to borrow against their home. However, a recent pilot program of reserve mortgage products in several... Section: Working Papers
by Katja Hanewald | On 01 Jan 2019 The paper presents a new model of charitable giving where individuals regard out-of-pocket donations and the matches they induce as different. The paper shows that match-price elasticities combine con... Section: Working Papers
by Daniel M. Hungerman | On 15 Aug 2018 The recent rise of dockless bike-sharing is dominated by two platforms: one started first in 82 Chinese cities, 59 of which were subsequently entered by the second platform. Using these variations, th... Section: Working Papers
by Guangyu Cao | On 15 Aug 2018 The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on Indian manufacturing plants, it shows that production and sourcing decisions appear... Section: Working Papers
by Johannes Boehm | On 15 Aug 2018 The paper constructs a new measure of the changing generosity of deposit insurance for many countries, empirically model the international influences on the adoption and generosity of deposit insuranc... Section: Working Papers
by Charles W. Calomiris | On 15 Aug 2018 Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) – a general purpose technology affecting many industries - has been focused on advances in machine learning, which recast as a quality adjusted drop in... Section: Working Papers
by Ajay K. Agrawal | On 01 Jun 2018 In many developing countries, the average firm is small, does not grow and has low productivity. Lack of market integration and limited information on non-local products often leave consumers unaware... Section: Working Papers
by Robert T. Jensen | On 01 Jun 2018 This paper provides knowledge the first analysis of the morbidity cost of PM2.5 for the entire population of a developing country. To address potential endogeneity in pollution exposure, it constructs... Section: Working Papers
by Panle Jia Barwick | On 01 Jun 2018 This paper studies a field experiment among energy-intensive Indian manufacturing plants that
offered
energy consulting to raise energy productivity, the amount plants can produce with e... Section: Working Papers
by Nicholas Ryan | On 01 May 2018 The paper assesses the power of forward guidance—promises about future interest rates—as a monetary tool in a liquidity trap using a quantitative incomplete-markets model. The results suggest the effe... Section: Working Papers
by Marcus Hagedorn | On 01 Apr 2018 How do import tariffs and R&D subsidies help domestic firms compete globally? How do these policies affect aggregate growth and economic welfare? To answer these questions, the paper builds a dynamic... Section: Working Papers
by Ufuk Akcigit | On 01 Apr 2018 This study employs a two-way fixed effects research design to measure the mortality impact and cost-effectiveness of cancer drugs: it analyzes the correlation across 36 countries between relative mort... Section: Working Papers
by Frank R. Lichtenberg | On 01 Apr 2018 The paper examines a measure of self-reported evaluative wellbeing, the Cantril Ladder, and use data from Gallup to examine wellbeing over the life-cycle. It assesses the validity of the measure, and... Section: Working Papers
by Angus Deaton | On 05 Mar 2018 Online reviews are a powerful means of propagating the reputations of products, services, and even employers. However, existing research suggests that online reviews often suffer from selection bias—p... Section: Working Papers
by Ioana Marinescu | On 05 Mar 2018 The paper develops a trade model in which productivity—the result of a country’s ability to adopt global technologies—presents an arbitrary pattern of spatial correlation. The model generates the full... Section: Working Papers
by Nelson Lind | On 01 Mar 2018 Macroeconomic models often invoke consumption “habits” to explain the substantial persistence of aggregate consumption growth. But a large literature has found no evidence of habits in microeconomic d... Section: Working Papers
by Christopher D. Carroll | On 01 Mar 2018 The paper evaluates the impact of the credit conditions facing corporations on their emissions of toxic air pollutants. Exploiting cross-county, cross-time shale discoveries that generated liquidity w... Section: Working Papers
by Ross Levine | On 01 Mar 2018 The paper studies a dynamic model of the decision to continue or abandon a research project. Researchers improve their ideas over time and also learn whether those ideas will be adopted by the scienti... Section: Working Papers
by Bernhard Ganglmair | On 26 Feb 2018 This paper seeks to draw lessons for developing countries based on a survey of the recent literature on financial globalization. First, while capital account openness holds promises (by potentially lo... Section: Working Papers
by Shang-Jin Wei | On 19 Feb 2018 In October 2010, the state government of Andhra Pradesh, India issued an emergency ordinance, bringing microfinance activities in the state to a complete halt and causing a nation-wide shock to the li... Section: Working Papers
by Emily Breza | On 19 Feb 2018 This study explores the relationship over an extended period of time
between an increase in per capita public health expenditure and
per capita
state’s domestic product (per capita inc... Section: Working Papers
by Deepak Kumar Behera | On 01 Jan 2018 This paper studies of couple evidence from a real-world implementation of pharmacogenomic testing with a discrete event simulation model. It uses the framework to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of va... Section: Working Papers
by John A. Graves | On 01 Dec 2017 This article provides a systematic review of the published literature to date on infant health production and how it has evolved over the past 3-4 decades as data have become more available, computing... Section: Working Papers
by Hope Corman | On 01 Dec 2017 The paper exploits the data from middle schools in Seoul, South Korea, where students and teachers are randomly assigned to classrooms, and find that female students taught by a female versus a male t... Section: Working Papers
by Jaegeum Lim | On 01 Dec 2017 Current global inequality measures assume that national-mean income does not matter to
economic
welfare at given household income, as measured in surveys. The paper questions... Section: Working Papers
by Martin Ravallion | On 01 Dec 2017 The authors study the effect of state medical marijuana laws (MMLs) on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Workers' Compensation (WC) claiming. The paper uses data on benefit claiming draw... Section: Working Papers
by Johanna Catherine Maclean | On 01 Sep 2017 Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the 1930s. South Korea, among the world’s poorest countries in the 1960s,joined the rank... Section: Working Papers
by Randall Morck | On 01 Sep 2017 This paper uses a field experiment to study how workers value alternative work arrangements. During the application process to staff a national call center, researchers randomly offered applicants cho... Section: Working Papers
by Alexandre Mas | On 01 Oct 2016 This paper analyzes the effects of emotional shocks associated with unexpected outcomes of football games played by a prominent college team in the state. It investigates the behavior of judges, the c... Section: Working Papers
by Ozkan Eren | On 01 Sep 2016 This paper estimates the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on local crime. It does so using an identification strategy that leverages variation driven by substance-abuse-treatme... Section: Working Papers
by Samuel Bondurant | On 01 Sep 2016 Comprehensive zoning is ubiquitous in U.S. cities, yet surprisingly little is known about its long-run impacts. This paper provides the first attempt to measure the causal effect of land use regulatio... Section: Working Papers
by Allison Shertzer | On 01 Sep 2016 The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political controversy and raised questions that require a fuller understanding of the determina... Section: Working Papers
by George Borjas | On 01 Sep 2016 The observed uneven distribution of economic activity across space is influenced by variation in exogenous geographical characteristics and endogenous interactions between agents in goods and factor m... Section: Working Papers
by Stephen Redding | On 01 Sep 2016 Though labor market conditions steadily improved following the Great Recession, underemployment among recent college graduates continued to climb, reaching highs not seen since the early 1990s. This p... Section: Working Papers
by Jaison Abel | On 01 Sep 2016 This paper studies the impact of international long-distance flights on the global spatial allocation of economic activity. To identify causal effects, it exploits variation due to regulatory and tech... Section: Working Papers
by Filipe Campante | On 01 Sep 2016 Do efficient financial markets and institutions promote economic growth? Have they done so in the past? This essay, to be included in the Handbook of Finance and Development (edited by Thorsten Beck a... Section: Working Papers
by Howard Bodenhorn | On 01 Sep 2016 Among U.S. publicly traded firms, the average firm's capital share has declined, even though the aggregate capital share has increased. This paper attributes the secular increase taken together capita... Section: Working Papers
by Barney Glaser | On 01 Sep 2016 As low-income countries industrialize, workers choose between informal self-employment and low-skill manufacturing. What do workers trade off, and what are the long run impacts of this occupational ch... Section: Working Papers
by Christopher Blattman | On 01 Sep 2016 This paper comprehensively examines the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular attention to the role of the social safety net in mitigating the adverse effects of shocks to e... Section: Working Papers
by Marianne Bitler | On 01 Sep 2016 The effects of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on obesity have been the focus of much debate. However, causal interpretation of estimates from previous studies, comparing particip... Section: Working Papers
by Lorenzo Almada | On 01 Sep 2016 Black women in current cohorts ages 50 to 72 years have lower employment than similar white women, despite having had higher employment when they were middle-aged and younger. Earlier cohorts of older... Section: Working Papers
by Joanna Lahey | On 01 Sep 2016 This paper examines more than one million children whose parents won a state lottery to trace out the effect of additional household resources on college outcomes. The analysis draws on the universe o... Section: Working Papers
by George Bulman | On 01 Sep 2016 This paper explores the long-run demand for M1 based on a dataset comprising 31 countries since 1851. In many cases, co integration tests identify a long-run equilibrium relationship between either ve... Section: Working Papers
by Luca Benati | On 01 Aug 2016 Gaps in educational achievement between high- and low-income children are growing. Administrative datasets maintained by states and districts lack information about income but do indicate whether a st... Section: Working Papers
by Katherine Michelmore | On 01 Aug 2016 This paper develops a forward-looking profit model to estimate the depreciation rates of business R&D capital. By using data from Compustat, BEA, and NSF between 1987 and 2008, and the newly developed... Section: Working Papers
by Wendy Li | On 01 Aug 2016 It is widely believed that teacher turnover adversely affects the quality of instruction in urban schools serving predominantly disadvantaged children, and a growing body of research investigates vari... Section: Working Papers
by Eric Hanushek | On 01 Aug 2016 This paper outlines the history of the FDA’s recent attempts to regulate cigarettes and other tobacco products and how they have valued foregone consumer surplus in cost-benefit analyses. It discusses... Section: Working Papers
by Helen Levy | On 01 Aug 2016 This paper uses information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secon... Section: Working Papers
by Dajun Lin | On 01 Aug 2016 Jurisdictions across the United States have adopted "ban the box" (BTB) policies preventing employers from conducting criminal background checks until late in the job application process. Their goal i... Section: Working Papers
by Jennifer Doleac | On 01 Aug 2016 This paper analyzes a geographic quasi-experiment embedded in a cluster-randomized experiment in Honduras. In the experiment, average treatment effects on school enrolment and child labour were large—... Section: Working Papers
by Sebastian Galiani | On 01 Aug 2016 This paper overviews the research opportunities made possible by a NIA-funded program project, Early Indicators, Intergenerational Processes, and Aging. Data collection began almost three decades ago... Section: Working Papers
by Dora Costa | On 01 Aug 2016 This paper explores the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. It runs regressions of job satisfaction on the share of males in an occupation. Overal... Section: Working Papers
by Grace Lordan | On 01 Aug 2016 Private equity funds hold assets that are hard to value. Managers may have an incentive to distort reported valuations if these are used by investors to decide on commitments to subsequent funds manag... Section: Working Papers
by Gregory Brown | On 01 Aug 2016 Over 20 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States are currently awaiting trial, but little is known about the impact of pre-trial detention on defendants. This paper uses the detention t... Section: Working Papers
by Will Dobbie | On 01 Aug 2016 Countries rarely hit the zero-lower bound on interest rates, but when they do, these episodes tend to be very long-lived. These two features are difficult to jointly incorporate into macroeconomic mod... Section: Working Papers
by Marc Carreras | On 01 Aug 2016 Infrequent but turbulent episodes of outright sovereign default on domestic creditors are considered a “forgotten history” in Macroeconomics. This paper proposes a heterogeneous-agents model in which... Section: Working Papers
by Pablo D'Erasmo | On 01 Aug 2016 How do employers attract the right workers? How important are posted wages vs. other job characteristics? Using data from the leading job board CareerBuilder.com, this paper shows that most vacancies... Section: Working Papers
by Ioana Marinescu | On 01 Aug 2016 China’s environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River’s water pollution. This paper documents that this regulatory effort has had two unintended consequences. First, the regulation’... Section: Working Papers
by Zhao Chen | On 01 Aug 2016 This paper models and characterizes how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. It identifies vast and expected changes in those househol... Section: Working Papers
by Andre Boik | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper proposes a new source of cross-sectional variation that may identify causal impacts of Government spending on the economy. It uses the fact that a large number of federal spending programs... Section: Working Papers
by Juan Serrato | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper compares Social Security means tests that would reduce benefits for recipients who fall in the top quarter of the income distribution with means tests aimed at those in the top quarter of t... Section: Working Papers
by Alan Gustman | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper studies trends in the partisanship of Congressional speech from 1873 to 2009. It defines partisanship to be the ease with which an observer could infer a congressperson’s party from a fixed... Section: Working Papers
by Matthew Gentzkow | On 01 Jul 2016 This essay reviews the development of neoclassical growth theory, a unified theory of aggregate economic phenomena that was first used to study business cycles and aggregate labor supply. The focus of... Section: Working Papers
by Edward Prescott | On 01 Jul 2016 Natural resource taxation and investment often exhibit cyclical behaviour, associated with shifts in political power. Why do finders get to keep more of their discoveries in some periods than others?... Section: Working Papers
by Niko Jaakkola | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper studies the impact of reform on county-sector employment growth over three years. Despite firms being paid just 15 days sooner, we find payroll increased 10 cents for each accelerated dolla... Section: Working Papers
by Jean Barrot | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper discusses the role of fossil-based power generation technologies in supporting renewable energy investments. It studies the deployment of technologies conditional on all other drivers in 26... Section: Working Papers
by Elena Verdolini | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper develops new estimates of flows into and out of unemployment that allow for unobserved heterogeneity across workers as well as direct effects of unemployment duration on unemployment-exit p... Section: Working Papers
by Hie Ahn | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper reports existing and fresh evidence on some of the direct and indirect linkages between trust and subjective well-being. This paper first uses data from three large international surveys –... Section: Working Papers
by John Helliwell | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper examines the generalizability of internally valid estimates of causal effects in a fixed population over time when that population is subject to aggregate shocks. This temporal external val... Section: Working Papers
by Mark Rosenzweig | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper reports on an experimental test of a new market design that is attractive in theory but makes the common and potentially unrealistic assumption that “agents report their type”; that is, tha... Section: Working Papers
by Eric Budish | On 01 Jul 2016 During the Great Recession, U.S. unemployment benefits were extended by up to 73 weeks. Theory predicts that extensions increase unemployment by discouraging job search, a partial equilibrium effect.... Section: Working Papers
by Ioana Marinescu | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper studies whether potential entrepreneurs remain in wage employment because of the danger that they will face worse job opportunities should their entrepreneurial ventures fail? Using a Canad... Section: Working Papers
by Ting Xu | On 01 Jul 2016 In this paper, the author simulates the Dependency Ratio (DR) under various conditions and makes comparisons with the US. Japan has experienced a large increase in its DR because its fertility rate is... Section: Working Papers
by Claudia Goldin | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper characterizes the efficiency properties of competitive economies with financial constraints and fire sales. It shows that two distinct pecuniary externalities occur in such settings: distri... Section: Working Papers
by Eduardo Dávila | On 01 Jul 2016 This paper examines the extent to which government audits of public resources can reduce corruption by enhancing political and judiciary accountability. It does so in the context of Brazil’s anti-corr... Section: Working Papers
by Eric Avis | On 01 Jul 2016 The paper examines these issues by conducting a randomized field experiment in 572 Indonesian localities in which a procurement process was introduced that allowed citizens to bid to take over the imp... Section: Working Papers
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 01 Dec 2015 Unemployment rates in countries across the world are typically positively correlated with GDP. China is an unusual outlier from the pattern, with abnormally low, and suspiciously stable, unemployment... Section: Working Papers
by Shuaizhang Feng | On 01 Aug 2015 The paper estimates the minimum wage's effects on low-skilled workers' employment and income trajectories. The increased binding minimum wage had significant, negative effects on the employment and in... Section: Working Papers
by Jeffrey Clemens | On 16 Jan 2015 This paper describes four lessons derived from 115 rigorous impact evaluations of educational initiatives in 33 low- and middle-income countries. First, reducing the costs of going to school and provi... Section: Working Papers
by Richard Murnane | On 01 Jul 2014 Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam Era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military service on crime. Using exact dates of birth for inmates in state and federal pr... Section: Working Papers
by Jason Lindo | On 03 Feb 2012 Although previous research has not always found that boys and girls are treated differently in rural India, son-biased stopping rules imply that estimates of the effect of gender on parental investmen... Section: Working Papers
by Silvia H. Barcellos | On 10 Jan 2012 The choice to breastfeed rather than formula-feed an infant as well as the duration of doing so has been scrutinized in more recent times. Yet, key identification issues remain to be resolved, includi... Section: Working Papers
by Clive Belfield | On 01 Oct 2010 This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite increased growth rates and rising inequality in recent years, is due to the existenc... Section: Working Papers
by Kaivan Munshi | On 01 Apr 2009 There are fierce debates over the best way to prepare teachers. Some argue that easing entry into teaching is necessary to attract strong candidates, while others argue that investing in high quality... Section: Working Papers
by Donald Boyd | On 10 Sep 2008 Falling costs of coordination and communication have allowed firms in rich countries to fragment their production process and offshore an increasing share of the value chain to low-wage countries. Thi... Section: Working Papers
by Andrés Rodríguez-Clare | On 05 Jun 2007 Why is underdevelopment so persistent? One explanation is that poor countries do not have institutions that can support growth. Because institutions (both good and bad) are persistent, underdevelopmen... Section: Working Papers
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 01 Jun 2007 Population aging is primarily the result of past declines in fertility, which produced a decades long period in which the ratio of dependents to working age adults was reduced. Rising old-age dependen... Section: Working Papers
by David N. Weil | On 01 Jun 2007 Has leisure increased over the last century? Standard measures of hours worked suggest that it has. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive measure of non-leisure hours that includes market work, ho... Section: Working Papers
by Valerie Ramey | On 01 Jun 2007 The essay is to provides a detailed overview of the state of the recent empirical literature on why and how children work as well as the consequences of that work. It provides a descriptive overview o... Section: Discussion Papers
by Eric Edmonds | On 01 Jun 2007 A dynamic heterogeneous agent general equilibrium model is constructed to quantify the effects of child labor legislation on human capital accumulation and the distribution of wealth and welfare. Cruc... Section: Working Papers
by Dirk Krueger | On 23 May 2007 A large literature considers why children work, but little is known about why children
participate in activities that are labeled worst forms of child labor. The principal international
convention o... Section: Working Papers
by Eric Edmonds | On 20 Apr 2007 The IMF attempts to stabilize private capital flows to emerging markets by providing public monitoring and emergency finance. In analyzing its role we contrast cases where banks and bondholders do the... Section: Working Papers
by Barry Eichengreen | On 18 Apr 2007 Small-area-variation studies have shown that physician treatment styles differ substantially both between and within markets, controlling for patient characteristics. Using a data set containing the u... Section: Working Papers
by Andrew Epstein | On 18 Apr 2007 This paper models how the evolving field of pharmacogenomics (PG), which is the science of using genomic markers to predict drug response, may impact drug development times, attrition rates, costs,and... Section: Working Papers
by John A. Vernon | On 18 Apr 2007 U.S. Presidential Executive Order 13141 commits the United States to a "careful assessment and consideration of the environmental impacts of trade agreements." The most direct mechanism through which... Section: Working Papers
by Josh Ederington | On 16 Apr 2007 This paper uses variation induced by firm closures to explore the intergenerational effects of worker displacement. Using a Canadian panel of administrative data that follows almost 60,000 father-chil... Section: Working Papers
by Philip Oreopolous | On 16 Apr 2007 Although it is commonly believed that trade liberalization results in higher GDP, little is known about its effects on poverty and inequality. This paper uses the sharp trade liberalization in India i... Section: Working Papers
by Petia Topalova | On 16 Apr 2007 Why has the underlyinghealth or morbidity of newborns, as proxied by the rate of low birth weight births, remained so immovable? Even more baffling, why has there been so little change in newborn heal... Section: Working Papers
by Ted Joyce | On 13 Apr 2007 The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) is a highly prestigious award for science and engineering (S&E) graduate students. This paper uses data from 1952 to 2004 on... Section: Working Papers
by Richard B. Freeman | On 13 Apr 2007 We examine the effects of aid on growth--in cross-sectional and panel data--after correcting for the bias that aid typically goes to poorer countries, or to countries after poor performance. Even afte... Section: Working Papers
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 10 Apr 2007 Little is known about the mechanisms underlying the transfer of economic status between generations. This paper addresses the question of whether inter-generational correlations in health contribute t... Section: Working Papers
by Janet Currie | On 10 Apr 2007 This paper examines the relationship between the share of employment potentially affected by offshoring and economic and structural factors, including trade in business services and foreign direct inv... Section: Working Papers
by Desiree Welsum | On 12 Jan 2007 South Africa has undergone a remarkable transformation since its democratic transition in 1994, but economic growth and employment generation have been disappointing. Most worryingly, unemployment is... Section: Working Papers
by Dani Rodrik | On 13 Oct 2006 In "Bowling Alone," Putnam (1995) famously argued that the rise of television may be responsible for social capital's decline. I investigate this hypothesis in the context of Indonesian villages. To i... Section: Working Papers
by Benjamin A. Olken | On 13 Oct 2006 As China has become an increasingly important part of the global trading system over the past two decades, interest in the country and its international economic policies has increased among internati... Section: Working Papers
by Lee Branstetter | On 02 Oct 2006 This paper addresses the final steps to global free trade -- the political economy forces that might drive them, and the role the WTO might play in guiding them. Two facts form the departure point: 1)... Section: Working Papers
by Richard Baldwin | On 05 Sep 2006 Many aspects of the Iraq venture have turned out differently from what was purported before the war: there were no weapons of mass destruction, no clear link between Al Qaeda and Iraq, no imminent dan... Section: Working Papers
by Linda Bilmes | On 01 Feb 2006 Mortality rates have fallen dramatically over time, starting in a few countries in the 18th century, and continuing to fall today. In just the past century, life expectancy has increased by over 30 ye... Section: Working Papers
by David M. Cutler | On 31 Jan 2006 There has been a very rapid rise since the early 1990s in foreign reserves held by developing countries. These reserves have climbed to almost 30 percent of developing countries' GDP and 8 months of i... Section: Working Papers
by Dani Rodrik | On 27 Jan 2006 Much more than comparative advantage and free markets have been at play in shaping China's export success. Government policies have helped nurture domestic capabilities in consumer electronics and oth... Section: Working Papers
by Dani Rodrik | On 01 Jan 2006 Using longitudinal survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program, this paper is the first to estimate the economic impacts of antiretroviral treatment in Africa. The responses in two... Section: Working Papers
by Harsha Thirumurthy | On 30 Dec 2005 The growing labour force participation of women with small children in both the U.S. and Canada has led to calls for increased public financing for childcare. The optimality of public financing depend... Section: Working Papers
by Michael Baker | On 02 Dec 2005 Government healthcare expenditures have been growing much more rapidly than GDP in OECD countries. For example, between 1970 and 2002 these expenditures grew 2.3 times faster than GDP in the U.S., 2.0... Section: Working Papers
by Laurence J. Kotlikoff | On 01 Dec 2005 This paper presents the results of two experiments conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education programme... Section: Working Papers
by Abhijit Banerjee | On 01 Dec 2005 Developments in the financial sector have led to an expansion in its ability to spread risks. The increase in the risk bearing capacity of economies, as well as in actual risk taking, has led to a ran... Section: Working Papers
by Raghuram G. Rajan | On 16 Nov 2005 India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market.... Section: Working Papers
by David Clingingsmith | On 10 Nov 2005 This paper provides an economic analysis of underground gun markets drawing on interviews with gang members, gun dealers, professional thieves, prostitutes, police, public school security guards and t... Section: Working Papers
by Philip J. Cook | On 01 Nov 2005 The construction of large dams is one of the most costly and controversial forms of public infrastructure investment in developing countries, but little is known about their impact. This paper studies... Section: Working Papers
by Esther Duflo | On 01 Oct 2005 This paper considers the relative importance of improvements in economic status in explaining improvements in non-monetary measures of well-being during Vietnam's economic boom in the 1990s. Section: Working Papers
by Eric Edmonds | On 22 Jul 2004 The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. A major problem is that consumption measured from household surveys, which is used to measure poverty, grows less rapi... Section: Working Papers
by Angus Deaton | On 01 Jul 2003 |