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Is online job training for all? Experimental evidence on the effects of a Coursera program in Costa Rica 在线就业培训适合所有人吗？哥斯达黎加 coursera 项目效果的实验证据
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103285
Rafael Novella , David Rosas-Shady , Richard Freund
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Impacts of vocational training for persons with disabilities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia 残疾人职业培训的影响：柬埔寨的实验证据
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103277
Yoshito Takasaki
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Does the gig economy discriminate against women? Evidence from physicians in China 打工经济是否歧视女性？来自中国医生的证据
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103275
Yutong Chen
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North Korean refugees’ implicit bias against South Korea predicts market earnings 朝鲜难民对韩国的隐性偏见可预测市场收益
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103276
Syngjoo Choi , Kyu Sup Hahn , Byung-Yeon Kim , Eungik Lee , Jungmin Lee , Sokbae Lee
{"title":"North Korean refugees’ implicit bias against South Korea predicts market earnings","authors":"Syngjoo Choi ,&nbsp;Kyu Sup Hahn ,&nbsp;Byung-Yeon Kim ,&nbsp;Eungik Lee ,&nbsp;Jungmin Lee ,&nbsp;Sokbae Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103276","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates whether experiences of living in a communist regime relate to low market earnings. We recruit North Korean refugees and measure their implicit bias against South Korea by using the Implicit Association Test. Conducting double auction and bilateral bargaining market experiments, we find that North Korean refugees with a larger bias against South Korea have lower expectations about their earning potential, exhibit trading behavior with lower target profits, and earn less profits. These associations are robust to conditioning on correlates of preferences, human capital, and assimilation experiences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 103276"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140187963","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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Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India 就业信息能否提高职业培训的效果？印度的实验证据
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103273
Bhaskar Chakravorty , Wiji Arulampalam , Apurav Yash Bhatiya , Clément Imbert , Roland Rathelot
{"title":"Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India","authors":"Bhaskar Chakravorty ,&nbsp;Wiji Arulampalam ,&nbsp;Apurav Yash Bhatiya ,&nbsp;Clément Imbert ,&nbsp;Roland Rathelot","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103273","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impact of providing richer information about prospective jobs to vocational trainees on their employment outcomes. The setting of the study is the vocational training program DDU-GKY in India. We find that including in the training two information sessions about placement opportunities make trainees 18% more likely to stay in the jobs in which they are placed. We provide suggestive evidence that the effect is driven by improved selection into training: as a result of the intervention, trainees that are over-optimistic about placement jobs are more likely to drop out before placement.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 103273"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387824000221/pdfft?md5=0392865013cf919f5a892b1a26c4a6fe&pid=1-s2.0-S0304387824000221-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140096309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Import competition, labor market regulations, and firm outsourcing 进口竞争、劳动力市场法规和企业外包
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103272
Pavel Chakraborty , Devashish Mitra , Asha Sundaram
{"title":"Import competition, labor market regulations, and firm outsourcing","authors":"Pavel Chakraborty ,&nbsp;Devashish Mitra ,&nbsp;Asha Sundaram","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103272","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using unique information on firm level domestic outsourcing of manufacturing jobs by Indian firms, we propose two channels and their interaction as determinants of the fragmentation of production: import competition and labor market regulation. We find that greater import competition from China is associated with a significant increase in domestic outsourcing of manufacturing jobs — a 10-percentage point increase in the import penetration ratio leads to a 11%–14% increase in the ratio of outsourcing expenses to the wage bill of a firm. This effect is driven by multi-product firms operating in states with pro-worker labor laws. We find a corresponding increase in the likelihood of sub-contracting among informal sector firms. Our results are consistent with a model where forward-looking firms outsource more in response to an increase in import competition, when there are future firing costs that can be avoided through such outsourcing. We thus are the first to highlight that labor market regulation and its interaction with international trade can determine the organization of production. Our findings have significant development implications that take the form of movement of manufacturing production towards the informal sector (and possible subsequent impoverishment of workers) as a consequence of a major trade shock.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 103272"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140052103","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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Market timing, farmer expectations, and liquidity constraints 市场时机、农民预期和流动性限制
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103268
Rui Albuquerque , Bruno de Araujo , Luis Brandao-Marques , Gerivasia Mosse , Pippy de Vletter , Helder Zavale
{"title":"Market timing, farmer expectations, and liquidity constraints","authors":"Rui Albuquerque ,&nbsp;Bruno de Araujo ,&nbsp;Luis Brandao-Marques ,&nbsp;Gerivasia Mosse ,&nbsp;Pippy de Vletter ,&nbsp;Helder Zavale","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103268","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We use data on price expectations from a survey of randomly sampled smallholder farmers in Mozambique. Across all crops, farmers report selling on average within three weeks of harvest, at lower prices than expected later in the season. Liquidity constrained farmers sell their harvest 50% faster than unconstrained farmers, but they increase their storage time in response to higher expected future prices. We address causality using an instrumental variables approach exploiting abnormal rainfall from cyclones Idai and Kenneth. We develop a model on market timing and its relation to price expectations and liquidity constraints.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 103268"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139999993","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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English language requirement and educational inequality: Evidence from 16 million college applicants in China 英语语言要求与教育不平等：来自中国 1600 万大学申请者的证据
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103271
Hongbin Li , Lingsheng Meng , Kai Mu , Shaoda Wang
{"title":"English language requirement and educational inequality: Evidence from 16 million college applicants in China","authors":"Hongbin Li ,&nbsp;Lingsheng Meng ,&nbsp;Kai Mu ,&nbsp;Shaoda Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103271","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper studies the unintended effect of English language requirement on educational inequality by investigating how the staggered rollout of English listening tests in China’s high-stakes National College Entrance Exam (NCEE) affected the rural–urban gap in college access. Leveraging administrative data covering the universe of NCEE participants between 1999 and 2003, we find that the introduction of English listening tests significantly lowered rural students’ exam score percentile ranks relative to their urban counterparts, resulting in a 30% increase in the rural–urban gap in college access. Our back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that, as a result of this policy change, more than 54,000 rural students lost college seats to their urban peers between 1999 and 2003, and another 11,000 rural students who elite colleges could have admitted ended up in non-elite colleges, causing them significant future income losses.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 103271"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139999992","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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Improving smallholder agriculture via video-based group extension 通过视频小组推广改进小农农业
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103267
Tushi Baul , Dean Karlan , Kentaro Toyama , Kathryn Vasilaky
{"title":"Improving smallholder agriculture via video-based group extension","authors":"Tushi Baul ,&nbsp;Dean Karlan ,&nbsp;Kentaro Toyama ,&nbsp;Kathryn Vasilaky","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103267","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103267","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Providing agricultural advice at scale poses operational challenges. Technology may help if repeating content reinforces learning for recipients and thus improves adoption, but risks reducing efficacy given limited customization and human interaction. We tested videos shared with female farmers in India as a supplement to standard human-provided extension services promoting a climate-smart practice, System Rice Intensification. The average treatment effects are large but imprecise because of non-normally distributed outcomes, specifically fat right tails. Weighted quantile regressions show that the imprecision in estimating an average treatment effect comes from farmers with output or yields in the upper quantiles. Both quantile regressions of the 25% and 50% quantiles and a Bayesian hierarchical model (robust to several priors) reveal positive treatment effects, and two subtreatments, one that reinforces information on labor costs from adoption and a second that presents role models to motivate adoption, lead to even higher estimated treatment effects on output.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"169 ","pages":"Article 103267"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387824000166/pdfft?md5=d6547e7771651a99a222ca3f9c3c9c26&pid=1-s2.0-S0304387824000166-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139921405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The agricultural wage gap within rural villages 农村内部的农业工资差距
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103270
Ceren Baysan , Manzoor H. Dar , Kyle Emerick , Zhimin Li , Elisabeth Sadoulet
{"title":"The agricultural wage gap within rural villages","authors":"Ceren Baysan ,&nbsp;Manzoor H. Dar ,&nbsp;Kyle Emerick ,&nbsp;Zhimin Li ,&nbsp;Elisabeth Sadoulet","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103270","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We use unique data on daily labor-market outcomes for Indian casual workers to study labor reallocation between agricultural and non-agricultural activities within rural areas. Controlling for both individual time-invariant attributes and time-varying shocks, we find that workers who switch sectors across years or even within a week can obtain 23% higher wages by taking non-agricultural jobs. We then estimate a discrete choice model of daily labor allocation that decomposes preferences for jobs into two types of disamenities: (i) those associated with job characteristics and (ii) those associated with location. We find that the first type of disamenity is 23% of wages for men and 38% for women, and the second type is 36% of wages for men and 31% for women.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 103270"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139935999","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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