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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
10641 Ram Fishman
Stephen C. Smith
Vida Bobic
Munshi Sulaiman
How Sustainable Are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda
Many development programs are based on short-term interventions, either because of external funding constraints or because it is assumed that impacts persist post program termination ...
(This analysis of midline experimental results was expanded using endline data in IZA DP No. 12476,)
O13, O33, I32, Q12
10640 Shuang Ma
Ren Mu
Forced off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China
Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' ...
(published in: World Development, 2020, 132, 104980.)
O12, O15, J61, Q15, R28
10639 Laura B. Nolan
David E. Bloom
Ramnath Subbaraman
Legal Status and Deprivation in India's Urban Slums: An Analysis of Two Decades of National Sample Survey Data
In India, 52–98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the ...
(publisehd in: Economic & Political Weekly, 2018, 53)
I14, I15, I18, I19
10638 Lane Kenworthy
Ive Marx
In-Work Poverty in the United States
In-work poverty became a prominent policy issue in the United States long before the term itself acquired any meaning and relevance in other industrialized countries. With America's embrace of an ...
(published in: Lohmann, H. and I. Marx (eds), Handbook on In-Work Poverty, Edward Elgar, 2019)
I3
10636 Ravi Kanbur
Structural Transformation and Income Distribution: Kuznets and Beyond
This paper explores the question of structural transformation and income distribution through the eyes of the pioneer in such analysis, Simon Kuznets. It argues that his 1955 paper stands the test of ...
(published in: C.Monga, J. Yifu Lin (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Structural Tansformation, Oxford University Press, 2019, 96 - 108)
O41, O14, D31
10635 Ravi Kanbur
Yue Wang
Xiaobo Zhang
The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround
This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing and even turning down. The argument is made using a range of data sources and a ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (2), 467 - 482)
D31, D63, O15, O53
10634 Ansgar H. Belke
Christian Dreger
Irina Dubova
On the Exposure of the BRIC Countries to Global Economic Shocks
The financial crisis led to a deep recession in many industrial countries. While large emerging countries recovered relatively quickly from the financial crisis, their performance deteriorated in the ...
(published in: World Economy, 2019, 45 (1), 122-142)
F44, E32, C32
10630 Seth Gershenson
Cassandra M. D. Hart
Constance A. Lindsay
Nicholas W. Papageorge
The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers
Black primary-school students matched to a same-race teacher perform better on standardized tests and face more favorable teacher perceptions, yet little is known about the long-run, sustained ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022, 14 (4), 300-342)
I2
10629 Evelyn L. Lehrer
Yeon Jeong Son
Women's Age at First Marriage and Marital Instability in the United States: Differences by Race and Ethnicity
The age at which women enter first marriage is known to be a major factor in marital instability. But to date possible differences by race/ ethnicity have not been examined. We use data from the ...
(published in: Demographic Research, 2017, 37, 229 - 250)
J12
10628 Xi Chen
Xiaobo Zhang
Xin Zhang
Smog in Our Brains: Gender Differences in the Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance
While there is a large body of literature on the negative health effects of air pollution, there is much less written about its effects on cognitive performance for the whole population. This paper ...
(published as 'The impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance' in: PNAS, 2018, 115 (37), 9193 - 9197.)
I24, Q53, Q51, J16
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