发布求助
文献互助 智能选刊 最新文献

Journal of Development Economics最新文献

筛选
英文 中文
Evidence on designing sanitation interventions 设计卫生设施干预措施的证据
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103316
Britta Augsburg , Andrew Foster , Terence Johnson , Molly Lipscomb
{"title":"Evidence on designing sanitation interventions","authors":"Britta Augsburg ,&nbsp;Andrew Foster ,&nbsp;Terence Johnson ,&nbsp;Molly Lipscomb","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103316","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sanitation is a public good, the responsibility for which is shared between households and the government. Interventions in the sector, therefore, must be designed with an eye toward reducing crowd out. We discuss the new findings on sanitation provision from the 12 papers in this special issue in the context of a simple model of household choice of levels of sanitation investment in the face of joint responsibility between the government and households over sanitation. The model provides micro-foundations for understanding when we should be particularly concerned about the potential for crowd-out together with intuition for the implications of the choice of intervention design between information, in-kind transfers, cash transfers, and subsidies. We use the framework of the model to discuss the findings of the papers in this special issue.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387824000658/pdfft?md5=9d56502e824d550aa2bbdd7aaa5f80e8&pid=1-s2.0-S0304387824000658-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141484369","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}
引用次数: 0
Punishing mayors who fail the test: How do voters respond to information about educational outcomes? 惩罚考试不及格的市长：选民如何回应有关教育成果的信息？
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103315
Loreto Cox , Sylvia Eyzaguirre , Francisco A. Gallego , Maximiliano García
{"title":"Punishing mayors who fail the test: How do voters respond to information about educational outcomes?","authors":"Loreto Cox ,&nbsp;Sylvia Eyzaguirre ,&nbsp;Francisco A. Gallego ,&nbsp;Maximiliano García","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103315","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the electoral effects of providing information on the educational outcomes of municipal schools when the mayor is running for reelection. We designed and implemented an experiment in Chile whereby we sent 128,033 letters to voters in 400 randomly selected polling stations prior to the 2016 municipal elections. The letters included information on past test scores for local public schools (levels and changes), and either average or maximum outcomes for comparable municipalities. Our findings do not reveal a relevant average impact of the letters, but when they contain poor educational outcomes, voter turnout decreases, translating almost one to one in decreases in votes for the incumbent mayor. Voters respond to educational results in levels and to letters that have average results as a benchmark. The results are especially strong when poor educational outcomes come as bad news to voters. We also find spillover effects in the municipal council election. Overall, our findings suggest that voters hold politicians accountable when faced to certain (but not all) types of information on their performance. JEL Codes: D72, H75, I25.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141302708","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}
引用次数: 0
Big hits in export growth 出口大幅增长
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103310
Melise Jaud , Olivier Cadot , Anne-Célia Disdier , Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann
{"title":"Big hits in export growth","authors":"Melise Jaud ,&nbsp;Olivier Cadot ,&nbsp;Anne-Célia Disdier ,&nbsp;Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103310","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103310","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper identifies export accelerations at the country pair-product level that are large enough to drive aggregate export growth in the medium run. In a sample of 100 countries, these export “big hits” are rare, less than 2 percent of all export spells, yet account for over two-thirds of export growth in a given country. The paper then explores their microfoundations using matched customs-census firm-level data for France. We find that typically, two firms are sufficient to generate a big hit and these firms’ access to external financing is key to their ability to drive export success. Moreover, big hits spread within firms across destinations and products. Our results offer new evidence on the granularity of export growth by linking micro-level entrepreneurial decisions with country-level export outcomes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141142110","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}
引用次数: 0
Types of communications technology and civil conflict 通信技术类型与国内冲突
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103312
Tushar Bharati , Michael Jetter , Muhammad Nauman Malik
{"title":"Types of communications technology and civil conflict","authors":"Tushar Bharati ,&nbsp;Michael Jetter ,&nbsp;Muhammad Nauman Malik","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103312","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103312","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Why do different types of information and communications technologies (ICTs) differentially relate to civil conflict incidence? We distinguish one-way (radio; television) from two-way ICTs (phone; internet; social media), contrasting technologies enabling one-directional broadcasting against technologies facilitating dialogue. The former predominantly allow rulers to misinform rebels about attainable rents, which, according to our theoretical framework, consequentially reduces conflict potential. However, two-way ICTs primarily help rebels overcome communication and coordination problems, which ultimately increases conflict potential. Strong political institutions are predicted to weaken these relationships but should remain unable to overturn their signs. Empirically, we observe consistent patterns in <span><math><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>i</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></math></span> country-level panel analyses of civil conflict and <span><math><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>i</mi><mi>i</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></math></span> individual-level survey responses eliciting anti-government attitudes. Radio and television availability and usage consistently emerge as negative predictors of conflict incidence and anti-government attitudes — but less so under strong political institutions. Opposite results materialize for mobile phone, internet, and social media availability and usage.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387824000610/pdfft?md5=e30291d4d74c20d6a09596f1fa0a0b69&pid=1-s2.0-S0304387824000610-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141132571","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}
引用次数: 0
The welfare effects of mobile broadband internet: Evidence from Nigeria 移动宽带互联网的福利效应：尼日利亚的证据
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103314
Kalvin Bahia , Pau Castells , Genaro Cruz , Takaaki Masaki , Xavier Pedrós , Tobias Pfutze , Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán , Hernán Winkler
{"title":"The welfare effects of mobile broadband internet: Evidence from Nigeria","authors":"Kalvin Bahia ,&nbsp;Pau Castells ,&nbsp;Genaro Cruz ,&nbsp;Takaaki Masaki ,&nbsp;Xavier Pedrós ,&nbsp;Tobias Pfutze ,&nbsp;Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán ,&nbsp;Hernán Winkler","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103314","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103314","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household welfare in Nigeria. The analysis exploits a unique data set that integrates a longitudinal household survey with information from Nigerian mobile operators on the deployment of mobile broadband internet between 2010 and 2016. Overall, estimates show that mobile broadband coverage had large and positive impacts on household consumption thereby reducing poverty significantly. This effect is if anything stronger among poorer households. Labor force participation explains a big part of this welfare-enhancing effect.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141192269","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}
引用次数: 0
Social distancing and COVID-19 under violence: Evidence from Colombia 暴力事件下的社会疏远与 COVID-19：来自哥伦比亚的证据
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103313
Diego A. Martin , Dario A. Romero
{"title":"Social distancing and COVID-19 under violence: Evidence from Colombia","authors":"Diego A. Martin ,&nbsp;Dario A. Romero","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103313","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103313","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Did violence increase social distancing and decrease COVID-19 cases? We investigated the effects of massacres on social distancing and subsequent impacts on COVID-19 cases in Colombia. Using an augmented synthetic control method model, we find that massacres reduced human mobility toward parks by six percentage points compared to unaffected areas. However, we did not find significant changes in workplace mobility. Moreover, alterations in social interactions caused by the violence had minimal effects on the spread of COVID-19. Following the occurrence of the first massacre, there was a decrease in 35 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the subsequent four months, with no evidence of changes in COVID-19 deaths. By leveraging an exogenous shock unrelated to the fear of the disease or its previous levels, we demonstrate the effect of social distancing and offer insights into social dynamics and public health.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141024780","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}
引用次数: 0
Information frictions, belief updating and internal migration: Evidence from Ghana and Uganda 信息摩擦、信念更新和国内移民：来自加纳和乌干达的证据
IF 5.1 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103311
Sarah Frohnweiler , Bernd Beber , Cara Ebert
{"title":"Information frictions, belief updating and internal migration: Evidence from Ghana and Uganda","authors":"Sarah Frohnweiler ,&nbsp;Bernd Beber ,&nbsp;Cara Ebert","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103311","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103311","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Information frictions about benefits of migration can lead to inefficient migration choices. We study the effects of randomly assigned information treatments concerning regional income differentials in Ghana and Uganda to explore participants’ belief updating and changes in internal migration intentions, destination preferences, and actual migration. Treated participants prefer higher income destinations, while effects on intent plausibly follow subjects’ initial under- or overestimation of potential gains, with asymmetric updating propensities. Effects persist for 18 months, and discussions with others about migrating increase, but actual migration does not. Knowledge about income affects intentions and destination choices, but barriers to actual relocation are complex.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387824000609/pdfft?md5=542bc9a3ea742312d600a2f00f2db236&pid=1-s2.0-S0304387824000609-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141028036","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}
引用次数: 0
In someone else’s shoes: Reducing prejudice through perspective taking 换位思考通过透视减少偏见
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103309
Marisol Rodríguez Chatruc , Sandra V. Rozo
{"title":"In someone else’s shoes: Reducing prejudice through perspective taking","authors":"Marisol Rodríguez Chatruc ,&nbsp;Sandra V. Rozo","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103309","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103309","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the effectiveness of online, low-cost, scalable interventions aimed at reducing prejudice against an out-group through the use of perspective taking. We conducted an online experiment in which Colombian natives were randomly assigned to either watch a video documentary about Venezuelan forced migrants crossing the Colombian border on foot or to play an online game that immersed them in the life of a Venezuelan forced migrant. Compared to a control group, both treatments led to increased altruism toward Venezuelans and improved attitudes toward forced migrants. However, only the game significantly boosted self-reported trust. In terms of effectiveness per minute of treatment, the video was at least four times more efficient than the game in enhancing prosociality. Given the video’s comparably shorter duration, greater ease of dissemination, and lower demand for active involvement, it appears a superior option to enhance prosocial behaviors in the short term.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141038441","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}
引用次数: 0
Using technology to prevent fraud in high stakes national school examinations: Evidence from Indonesia 利用技术防止全国学校考试中的舞弊行为：印度尼西亚的证据
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103307
Emilie Berkhout , Menno Pradhan , Rahmawati , Daniel Suryadarma , Arya Swarnata
{"title":"Using technology to prevent fraud in high stakes national school examinations: Evidence from Indonesia","authors":"Emilie Berkhout ,&nbsp;Menno Pradhan ,&nbsp;Rahmawati ,&nbsp;Daniel Suryadarma ,&nbsp;Arya Swarnata","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103307","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cheating reduces the signaling value of examinations. It also shifts the focus of teachers and students away from learning. Combating widespread cheating is difficult as students, teachers, and bureaucrats all benefit from high reported grades. We evaluate the impact of computer-based testing (CBT), an at-scale policy implemented by the Indonesian government to reduce widespread cheating in the national examinations. Exploiting the phased roll-out of the program from 2015 to 2019, we find that test scores declined dramatically, by 0.5 standard deviations, after the introduction of CBT. Schools with response patterns that indicated cheating prior to CBT adoption experienced a steeper decline. The effect is similar between schools with and without access to a computer lab, indicating that the reduction in the opportunity to cheat is the main reason for the test score decline. In districts with high adoption of CBT, schools that still used paper-based exams cheated less and scored lower, indicating spillovers of CBT. The results highlight the potential role of technology in improving the effectiveness in efforts to overcome collusive behavior in the education sector.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387824000567/pdfft?md5=f71c797a3f2c5bef39a1027701c4e995&pid=1-s2.0-S0304387824000567-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140913855","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}
引用次数: 0
Information and immigrant settlement 信息和移民安置
IF 5 1区 经济学
Journal of Development Economics Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103305
Toman Barsbai , Victoria Licuanan , Andreas Steinmayr , Erwin Tiongson , Dean Yang
{"title":"Information and immigrant settlement","authors":"Toman Barsbai ,&nbsp;Victoria Licuanan ,&nbsp;Andreas Steinmayr ,&nbsp;Erwin Tiongson ,&nbsp;Dean Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103305","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103305","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study a randomly-assigned program providing information on U.S. settlement for new Filipino immigrants. The intervention, a 2.5-hour pre-departure training and an accompanying paper handbook, has no effect on employment, settlement, and subjective wellbeing, but leads immigrants to acquire substantially fewer social network connections. We rationalize these findings with a simple model, showing that information and social network links are substitutes under reasonable assumptions. Consistent with the model, the treatment reduces social network links more when costs of acquiring network links are lower. Offsetting reductions in the acquisition of social network connections can hence reduce the effectiveness of information interventions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48418,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387824000543/pdfft?md5=f622ef04215c1b3cfc96e7473e8ef402&pid=1-s2.0-S0304387824000543-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141031384","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}
引用次数: 0
首页 上一页 下一页 尾页
0
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
提示
您的信息不完整，为了账户安全，请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
现在去查看 取消
×
提示
确定
请完成安全验证×
相关产品
×
本文献相关产品
联系我们：info@booksci.cn Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务，方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。 Copyright © 2023 布克学术 All rights reserved.
京ICP备2023020795号-1
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号：481959085
Book学术官方微信