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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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9211
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Martin
Foureaux
Koppensteiner
Marco
Manacorda
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Violence and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Brazil
This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence – measured by homicide rates - ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 119, 16-33.)
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I12, I15, I39, J13, K42
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9209
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Umut
Oguzoglu
Ashantha
Ranasinghe
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Crime and Establishment Size: Evidence from South America
Establishment exposure to crime is a frequent occurrence and a major obstacle to business operation in developing economies. We present a simple theory for the frequency and severity of crime across ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2017, 17 (4))
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O1, O4, D2
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9208
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Christine
Valente
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Primary Education Expansion and Quality of Schooling: Evidence from Tanzania
The rapid increase in primary enrollment seen in many developing countries might worsen schooling quality. I estimate the effect of enrollment growth following the removal of primary school fees in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019.)
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I21, I28, O15
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9207
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Tanguy
Bernard
Markus
Frölich
Andreas
Landmann
Pia
Naima
Unte
Angelino
Viceisza
Fleur
Wouterse
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Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural produce through producer organizations. We conduct a cluster-randomized controlled ...
(published in: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2021, 50 (3), 465 - 484)
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D71, O12, Q13
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9206
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Yao
Pan
Stephen
C.
Smith
Munshi
Sulaiman
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Agricultural Extension and Technology Adoption for Food Security: Evidence from Uganda
This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2018, 100 (4), 1012–1031)
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O13, Q12, I30
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9205
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Qingwei
Meng
Mthuli
Ncube
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Can Intra-Regional Trade Act as a Global Shock Absorber in Africa?
The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to output and other shocks originated in the rest of the world. A comparison of two ...
(published in: World Economics, 2015, 16 (3), 141 - 162)
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E32, F4, F15
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9204
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Haroon
Bhorat
Ravi
Kanbur
Benjamin
Stanwix
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Minimum Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Primer
Although the sectors and fraction of workers covered are small given the low rates of formality and urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as the number of covered workers grows wage regulation ...
(published in: World Bank Observer, 2017, 32 (1), 21 - 74)
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J08, J20, J21, J30, J38
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9203
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Seth
Gershenson
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Performance Standards and Employee Effort: Evidence from Teacher Absences
The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) increased accountability pressure in U.S. public schools by threatening to impose sanctions on Title-1 schools that failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35(3), 615-638)
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J45, J48, J22, I2
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9202
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Seth
Gershenson
Stephen
B.
Holt
Nicholas
W.
Papageorge
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Who Believes in Me? The Effect of Student-Teacher Demographic Match on Teacher Expectations
Teachers are an important source of information for traditionally disadvantaged students. However, little is known about how teachers form expectations and whether their expectations are ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 209-224)
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I24, D84, J15, J16
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9201
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Joseph
J.
Sabia
Brittany
Bass
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Do Anti-Bullying Laws Reduce Youth Violence?
This study is the first to comprehensively examine the effect of state anti-bullying laws (ABLs) on youth violence. Using data from a variety of sources – including the Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, ...
(published as 'Do anti-bullying laws work? New evidence on school safety and youth violence' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (2), 473 - 502)
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I28
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13085Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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