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Estimating the Demand for Business Training: Evidence from Jamaica 评估商业培训需求：来自牙买加的证据
IF 2 3区 经济学
Economic Development and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2022-01-25 DOI: 10.1086/719031
A. Maffioli, David McKenzie, D. Ubfal
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引用次数: 7
What Is the Price of Freedom? Estimating Women’s Willingness to Pay for Job Schedule Flexibility 自由的代价是什么?评估女性为工作时间灵活性买单的意愿
IF 2 3区 经济学
Economic Development and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2022-01-25 DOI: 10.1086/718645
Monserrat Bustelo, A. M. Diaz, J. Lafortune, C. Piras, L. M. Salas, José Tessada
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引用次数: 5
Up before Dawn: Experimental Evidence from a Cross-Border Trader Training at the DRC-Rwanda Border 黎明前：来自刚果民主共和国-卢旺达边境跨境贸易商培训的实验证据
IF 2 3区 经济学
Economic Development and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2022-01-25 DOI: 10.1086/718187
K. Croke, María Elena García Mora, Markus Goldstein, E. Mensah, Michael B. O'Sullivan
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引用次数: 0
When Private Beats Public: A Flexible Value-Added Model with Tanzanian School Switchers 当私立学校击败公立学校：坦桑尼亚学校转换者的灵活增值模式
IF 2 3区 经济学
Economic Development and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2022-01-25 DOI: 10.1086/718893
Kasper Brandt
{"title":"When Private Beats Public: A Flexible Value-Added Model with Tanzanian School Switchers","authors":"Kasper Brandt","doi":"10.1086/718893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718893","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the increasing popularity of private secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about the return. In this paper, I estimate a private school learning premium in Tanzania, using administrative exam records for 635,000 students. I compare secondary school students with their primary school classmates who achieved the same primary school exam scores and control for peer effects and unobserved ability. On average, private schools improve exam scores by 0.54 of a standard deviation in 2 years. A regression discontinuity design suggests that the effect is causal, and subject-specific estimates are all positive but higher for mathematics relative to Kiswahili and English.","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42168718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Stay at Home With Grandma, Mom Is Going to Work: The Impact of Grandmothers' Retirement on Mothers' Labor Decisions 和奶奶呆在家里，妈妈要去工作:祖母退休对母亲劳动决策的影响
IF 2 3区 经济学
Economic Development and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2022-01-25 DOI: 10.1086/719161
M. Pinto
{"title":"Stay at Home With Grandma, Mom Is Going to Work: The Impact of Grandmothers' Retirement on Mothers' Labor Decisions","authors":"M. Pinto","doi":"10.1086/719161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/719161","url":null,"abstract":"Grandparents are an important source of childcare, especially when formal childcare supply is low. In this paper, I explore whether grandmothers’ retirement affects their daughters’ employment when they have young children. I exploit a pension reform in Argentina that induced an arguably exogenous variation in grandmothers’ retirement decisions. I find that mothers of young children coresiding with retirement-eligible grandmothers are significantly more likely to participate in the labor market and to be employed, and the effects are large. Although I find suggestive evidence that the underlying mechanism is an increase in grandmothers’ time availability, I cannot fully rule out an income effect. Also, I find no evidence that the policy affected fertility or household composition.","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45823439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
The Origins of Optimism: a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment among Microfinance Clients in Bolivia 乐观的起源:玻利维亚小额信贷客户的实地实验
IF 2 3区 经济学
Economic Development and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2022-01-25 DOI: 10.1086/718237
F. Cecchi, Elske Voermans, R. Lensink
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引用次数: 0
Worker Turnover and Job Reallocation: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data 工人流动和工作再分配:来自匹配雇主-雇员数据的证据
IF 2 3区 经济学
Economic Development and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2022-01-25 DOI: 10.1086/718686
Admasu Shiferaw, Måns Söderbom
{"title":"Worker Turnover and Job Reallocation: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data","authors":"Admasu Shiferaw, Måns Söderbom","doi":"10.1086/718686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/718686","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses employer-employee data to jointly examine worker turnover and job flows in Ethiopia. We find substantial worker turnover (38%) at the aggregate level. Nearly half of this turnover is driven by establishment-level job flows, while the other half is accounted for by excess turnover or churning. A substantial part of hiring (separation) occurs among downsizing (growing) establishments, underscoring that worker flows are much higher than job reallocation across establishments. Churning of workers appears to be negatively associated with subsequent employment growth, and this relationship is stronger among employers that rely more on long-term relationships with workers.","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":"71 1","pages":"1249 - 1277"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43818302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Bridging the Savings Gap: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi 弥合储蓄差距:来自马拉维实地试验的证据
IF 2 3区 经济学
Economic Development and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2021-10-22 DOI: 10.1086/716337
Jeffrey A. Flory
{"title":"Bridging the Savings Gap: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi","authors":"Jeffrey A. Flory","doi":"10.1086/716337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/716337","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines evidence from a randomized controlled trial of a novel financial services intervention designed to spur savings uptake in rural areas of the developing world. The sample includes more than 2,000 households from 325 villages in rural Malawi. Results show that an information treatment consisting of periodic village visits from a trained bank staff person significantly increased adoption and use of savings accounts. The findings also show important impact heterogeneities along dimensions such as education level, remoteness of village, and gender of household head, as well as positive spillover effects onto account uptake at other financial institutions. Further analysis reveals active account use among adopters. These findings confirm recent suggestions from survey evidence on an important role played by “soft” barriers to financial inclusion (e.g., low information and trust) and provide insights on how such barriers can be overcome.","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":"71 1","pages":"963 - 1002"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45631706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
The Impact of Being Surveyed on the Adoption of Agricultural Technology 被调查对农业技术采用的影响
IF 2 3区 经济学
Economic Development and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2021-10-22 DOI: 10.1086/717251
Mark Treurniet
{"title":"The Impact of Being Surveyed on the Adoption of Agricultural Technology","authors":"Mark Treurniet","doi":"10.1086/717251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717251","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses exogenous variation in the probability of being surveyed at baseline to estimate the impact of being surveyed on subsistence farmers’ take-up of a new agricultural technology that improves food safety. I find large and statistically significant impacts of being surveyed and that an experimental treatment effect disappears for surveyed farmers. My results have strong implications for our understanding of the process of technology adoption, for the external validity of adoption results measured in surveyed populations, and for research ethics.","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":"71 1","pages":"941 - 962"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42018140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Are Employment Protection Laws for Persons with Disabilities Effective in a Developing Country? 残疾人就业保护法在发展中国家有效吗?
IF 2 3区 经济学
Economic Development and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2021-10-22 DOI: 10.1086/717279
M. Palmer, J. Williams
{"title":"Are Employment Protection Laws for Persons with Disabilities Effective in a Developing Country?","authors":"M. Palmer, J. Williams","doi":"10.1086/717279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/717279","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the impact of a law protecting the employment rights of persons with disabilities in Cambodia. Similar to studies in high-income countries, we find that Cambodia’s national disability law did not improve the employment situation of persons with disabilities, and may have worsened it, 4 years after implementation. The reduction in employment and hours worked of disabled persons following the law’s introduction is concentrated among employees, females, young persons, those with less than a primary school education, and those in the industrial sector. We explore supply- and demand-side explanations for the disability law’s unintended effect. On balance, the most likely explanation for the reduced work activity of disabled workers is lower demand for their labor from employers facing workplace accommodation costs and in an environment where employment quotas for disabled workers appear to have been set at nonbinding levels.","PeriodicalId":48055,"journal":{"name":"Economic Development and Cultural Change","volume":"71 1","pages":"1057 - 1092"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46714150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
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