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Are students really biased against female professors? — Experimental evidence from India 学生真的对女教授有偏见吗？- 印度的实验证据
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103362
Puneet Arora , Moumita Roy
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Riders on the storm: How do firms navigate production and market conditions amid El Niño? 风暴中的骑手：企业如何在厄尔尼诺现象中驾驭生产和市场环境？
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103374
Maria Bas , Caroline Paunov
{"title":"Riders on the storm: How do firms navigate production and market conditions amid El Niño?","authors":"Maria Bas ,&nbsp;Caroline Paunov","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103374","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103374","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates how heavy rainfalls resulting from the 2002–03 El Niño climate pattern affect Ecuadorian firms' production and market conditions. We show that affected firms' revenue productivity (TFP-R) and markups decrease. This is due to production efficiency losses (TFP-Q) and higher marginal costs of initially less efficient firms. Decreased product output prices in response to lower product demand explain the impact on initially more efficient firms. However, the shock neither affects market shares nor survival rates of initially less efficient firms. Consequently, the productivity distribution of Ecuador's industry is not affected by the shock. We also show a swift recovery of production and market demand in the immediate aftermath of the shock. Impacts in 2002–03 are like those of the 1997–98 rainfall shock. Differentiating firms by their TFP-R rather than their production efficiency indicates firms with better (worse) market positions can mitigate the negative impacts of the shock more (less).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103374"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142357526","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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Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China 渐行渐远：中国农村地区的区内和跨区保险不断减少
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103366
Orazio Attanasio , Costas Meghir , Corina Mommaerts , Yu Zheng
{"title":"Growing apart: Declining within- and across-locality insurance in rural China","authors":"Orazio Attanasio ,&nbsp;Costas Meghir ,&nbsp;Corina Mommaerts ,&nbsp;Yu Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103366","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103366","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late 2000s. We document an erosion of consumption insurance against both household-level idiosyncratic and village-level aggregate income shocks, and show that this decline is related to observable economic changes: the shift out of agriculture, the decline of publicly owned Township-and-Village Enterprises, and increased migrant work. Further evidence suggests that as these changes took place at the village level, higher levels of government failed to offset these effects through the tax-and-transfer system, leaving households more exposed to both idiosyncratic and village-aggregate risk.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103366"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142240647","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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Aid allocation with optimal monitoring: Theory and policy 最佳监督下的援助分配：理论与政策
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103364
François Bourguignon , Jean-Philippe Platteau
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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
Maria Victoria Fazio , Richard Freund , Rafael Novella
{"title":"Do entrepreneurial skills unlock opportunities for online freelancing? Experimental evidence from El Salvador","authors":"Maria Victoria Fazio ,&nbsp;Richard Freund ,&nbsp;Rafael Novella","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103363","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103363","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper reports on a randomized experiment in El Salvador that aimed to improve online labor market outcomes by teaching the entrepreneurial skills required to engage with online marketplaces. Despite low completion rates, we find that assignment to the training significantly increases online freelancing outcomes, such as the probability of having an online freelancing profile, the number of proposals sent, receiving at least one job offer, and securing at least one online freelancing contract. We also observe improved socioemotional skills. However, we find no significant effects of the program on the number of job offers, contracts, or any broader labor market outcomes. Further analysis suggests that poor initial job ratings may have hindered sustained success in online freelancing. Overall, despite some initial success, the program failed to have a lasting impact on the livelihoods of the participants.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103363"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387824001123/pdfft?md5=7b911fd3bd6e5a77cde5a1af216c88c5&pid=1-s2.0-S0304387824001123-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142228898","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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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
Mylène Lagarde , Carlos Riumallo Herl
{"title":"Better together? Group incentives and the demand for prevention","authors":"Mylène Lagarde ,&nbsp;Carlos Riumallo Herl","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103365","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103365","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In a field experiment with 400 groups of informal entrepreneurs in El Salvador, we compare the impact of group incentives (linked to compliance of all members) to equivalent individual ones to encourage cardiovascular check-ups. We test two incentive designs: small rewards and lotteries. Group incentives are as effective as individual ones at increasing demand for prevention, but, unlike individual incentives, they fail to target those with potentially higher health risks. The equal effectiveness of group incentives is linked to more communication, coordination between members and, to some extent, peer pressure. These social dynamics contribute to reduce uncertainty about other group members’ decisions and enhance the perceived net benefit of prevention. Although the preventive check-ups do not induce short-term lifestyle changes, they substantially increase the detection of new risk factors, making all incentives highly cost-effective interventions in this population.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"172 ","pages":"Article 103365"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387824001147/pdfft?md5=938dcdd5eaedd778cdde7c5e5b4dbeae&pid=1-s2.0-S0304387824001147-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142158490","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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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
Michael A. Clemens , Mariapia Mendola
{"title":"Migration from developing countries: Selection, income elasticity, and Simpson’s paradox","authors":"Michael A. Clemens ,&nbsp;Mariapia Mendola","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103359","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103359","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The economic causes and effects of migration from developing countries depend on patterns of self-selection that are difficult to observe. We estimate the degree of migrant self-selection—on both observed and unobserved determinants of income—for 99 developing countries using nationally representative survey data on 653,613 people. In low-income countries, people actively preparing to emigrate have 14 percent higher incomes explained by observed traits such as schooling, and 12 percent higher incomes explained by unobserved traits. The simulated income elasticity of emigration is positive in the aggregate (+0.23) despite being negative in subpopulations, an instance of Simpson’s paradox.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103359"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142097397","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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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
M. Nazım Tamkoç
{"title":"Bribery, plant size and size dependent distortions","authors":"M. Nazım Tamkoç","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103361","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103361","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>I document that small plants spend a higher fraction of their output on bribery than big plants, and that non-bribe-paying plants face higher distortions compared to bribe-paying plants in Türkiye. I develop a one-sector growth model in which size-dependent distortions, bribery opportunities, and different plant sizes coexist. In the model, plants are able to avoid distortions through bribery. The model parameters are calibrated with distortions and bribery opportunities in order to account for the plant size distribution as well as bribery expenditures by different plant sizes in the Turkish data. Counterfactual exercises show that size-dependent distortions become less distortionary in the presence of bribery opportunities. An increase in the size dependency of distortions has smaller aggregate effects since plants are able to circumvent distortions by paying larger bribes. Quantitatively, when bribery opportunities are present in the economy, mean plant size and output are 7.8 and 2.0 percent higher, respectively.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103361"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142129003","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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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
Wei Huang , Mi Luo , Yuqi Ta , Boxian Wang
{"title":"Land expropriation, household behaviors, and health outcomes: Evidence from China","authors":"Wei Huang ,&nbsp;Mi Luo ,&nbsp;Yuqi Ta ,&nbsp;Boxian Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103358","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103358","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using a nationally representative dataset from China, we exploit an event study approach to trace out the consequences of land expropriation on household economic behaviors and health outcomes. The expropriated rural households receive an average compensation per capita of over 6 thousand <em>yuan</em> (60 percent of pre-event income) immediately after expropriation and thus have a higher income level. Among the people in these households, the likelihood of working in the agricultural sector decreases while that of working in the non-agricultural sector increases. Meanwhile, medical consumption per capita increases substantially by 0.4 thousand <em>yuan</em> and the saving rate rises by 14 percentage points. People in these households experience a significant improvement in subjective health status, in terms of self-reported health and depression, while their health-related behaviors do not change significantly. Overall, land expropriation influences the economic and health conditions of the affected rural households by providing additional liquidity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":"171 ","pages":"Article 103358"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142097398","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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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
Dany Bahar , Prithwiraj Choudhury , Ernest Miguelez , Sara Signorelli
{"title":"Global Mobile Inventors","authors":"Dany Bahar ,&nbsp;Prithwiraj Choudhury ,&nbsp;Ernest Miguelez ,&nbsp;Sara Signorelli","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":"171 ","pages":"Article 103357"},"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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