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Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103366
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Aid allocation with optimal monitoring: Theory and policy
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103364
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Do entrepreneurial skills unlock opportunities for online freelancing? Experimental evidence from El Salvador 创业技能能为网上自由职业者带来机会吗？来自萨尔瓦多的实验证据
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103363
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Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention 更好地合作？团体激励和预防需求
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103365
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Migration from developing countries: Selection, income elasticity, and Simpson’s paradox 来自发展中国家的移民：选择、收入弹性和辛普森悖论
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103359
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Bribery, plant size and size dependent distortions 贿赂、工厂规模和与规模相关的扭曲
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103361
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Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China 土地征用、家庭行为和健康结果：来自中国的证据
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103358
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Global Mobile Inventors 全球移动发明家
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103357
{"title":"Global Mobile Inventors","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103357","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103357","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The number of Global Mobile Inventors (GMIs), inventors moving across borders during their career, has increased more than tenfold over the past two decades, and the corridors of mobility have shifted towards a growing presence of emerging markets. We document that GMIs that have patented in a given technology before moving are 70% more likely to be among the pioneering inventors in that technology once they arrive at destination, which we interpret as evidence of knowledge diffusion across borders. Returnees, which are typically inventors from emerging markets that go back after having spent some time in the US and other advanced economies, are twice as likely to file pioneering patents once returned than migrants when arriving abroad. Finally, we find that the more central the GMIs in the network of inventors during the early stages of the technology life-cycle at destination, the faster the technology-specific knowledge is absorbed by local inventors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142136985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Forced migration and local economic development: Evidence from postwar Hungary 强迫移民与地方经济发展：战后匈牙利的证据
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103355
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The enduring trauma: How officials' childhood famine experiences affect year-end spending surge 持久的创伤：官员的童年饥荒经历如何影响年终支出激增
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103356
{"title":"The enduring trauma: How officials' childhood famine experiences affect year-end spending surge","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103356","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103356","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the impact of government officials’ childhood famine experiences on year-end spending surges (YESS), a phenomenon where organizations rush to spend unspent funds at fiscal year-end. We propose that early-life famine trauma fosters fiscal conservatism, leading to underutilized budgets, but the “use it or lose it” rule forces spending by the fiscal deadline. Analyzing data from Chinese cities (2008–2018), we find that officials who experienced famine in childhood significantly increased YESS, reducing fiscal efficiency and hindering local economic development. The effect is most pronounced among those who experienced famine in early childhood and is amplified in financially autonomous cities governed by officials with extensive local networks. Additionally, the observed correlation between mild depression and famine trauma suggests psychological mechanisms underlying the persistent effects of early trauma on fiscal behavior.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142087041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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