Physical effort is a primary component
in models of economic behavior. However, applications that
measure effort are historically scarce. This paper assesses
the differences...
This paper reports on the universe of
garment-making-firm owners in a Ghanaian district capital
during the COVID-19 crisis. By July 2020, 80 percent of both
male- and...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 184874Date: December 26, 2022Author:
Hardy,Morgan L. ;
Erin Litzow ;
Mccasland,Jamie Lee ;
Gisella Kagy
This paper analyzes the magnitude and
predictors of misreporting on intimate partner violence.
Women in Nigeria were randomly assigned to answer questions
using either...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 184869Date: December 8, 2022Author:
Cullen,Claire Alexis
This paper investigates the impact of
large-scale Syrian refugee inflows on the Turkish housing
market. Employing a micro-level data set of the population
of mortgaged...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 184868Date: December 6, 2022Author:
Yusuf Emre Akgünduz ;
Yavuz Selim Hacıhasanoglu ;
Yilmaz,Fatih
There is considerable evidence that
conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs can have large
impacts on school enrollment, including in very poor
countries. However,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 177995Date: November 24, 2022Author:
Filmer,Deon P. ;
Schady,Norbert Rudiger
This paper evaluates alternative
approaches to disseminating information about a school-based
management program in Indonesia. Low-intensity approaches,
sending a letter...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 177997Date: November 24, 2022Author:
Cerdan-Infantes,Pedro ;
Filmer,Deon P. ;
Santoso
This study explores the impact of the
arrival of Syrian refugees in Turkey on access to
health-care resources and subsequent changes in infectious
disease rates among...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 184870Date: November 14, 2022Author:
Bilge Erten ;
Pinar Keskin ;
Miray Omurtak ;
Ozen,Ilhan Can
A law that banned the practice of female
genital cutting (FGC) in Senegal in 1999 reduced its
prevalence and increased educational investments in girls.
These results...
The objective of this paper is to better
understand the evolution and institutional roots of Hong
Kong’s growing economic inequality and political
cleavages....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 186349Date: October 8, 2022Author:
Thomas Piketty ;
Li Yang
This paper uncovers evidence of
political cycles in developmental outcomes in the Indian
context. Comparing children born to the same mother, it
shows that children...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 186350Date: October 8, 2022Author:
Shampa Bhattacharjee
This paper evaluates different methods
for nowcasting country-level poverty rates, including
methods that apply statistical learning to large-scale
country-level data...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 186346Date: October 6, 2022Author:
Mahler,Daniel Gerszon ;
R. Andrés Castañeda Aguilar ;
Newhouse,David Locke
As cities plan for post-COVID recovery,
many questions preoccupy mayors, policymakers, planners, and
developers. This article examines COVID-19’s
impact on cities,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 178073Date: October 1, 2022Author:
Wahba Tadros,Sameh Naguib
SMS information campaigns are
increasingly used for policy. A field experiment is
conducted to study information sharing through mobile phone
messages. Subjects are...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 186361Date: September 22, 2022Author:
Cátia Batista ;
Fafchamps,Marcel ;
Pedro C. Vicente
Does improving roads affect jobs and
structural transformation? A novel geocoded data set
covering the universe of Ethiopian roads matched with
individual data allows...
Can unconditional cash transfers have
long-term benefits for women’s employment in
developing countries? This study exploits discontinuous
exposure to the South...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 186359Date: September 16, 2022Author:
Alessandro Tondini
Telescoping errors occur if survey
respondents misdate events from outside the reference period
and include them in their recall. Concern about telescoping
influenced...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 186351Date: September 14, 2022Author:
Gashaw T. Abate ;
De Brauw,Alan ;
John Gibson ;
Hirvonen,Kalle Valtteri ;
Abdulazize Wolle
With extreme weather events on the rise,
the question of how witnessing adverse weather events may
affect individuals’ perception, and consequently
their subjective...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 186365Date: August 31, 2022Author:
Stein,Wiebke ;
Reinhard A. Weisser
This paper uses dozens of large-scale
household surveys to measure average changes in fertility
following hundreds of droughts, floods, earthquakes,
tropical cyclones,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 186348Date: August 8, 2022Author:
Johannes Norling
The shift from routine work to
nonroutine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets
globally, but there is little evidence on the extent to
which tasks differ...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 186339Date: June 20, 2022Author:
Piotr Lewandowski ;
Park,Albert Francis ;
Hardy,Wojciech Stefan ;
Du,Yang ;
Saier Wu
Do smaller local governments provide
more for their citizens, especially when they are also held
accountable to their citizens? This paper extends the
empirical literature...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 186336Date: June 8, 2022Author:
Deepak Singhania
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