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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies

Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … cover thousands of firms from virtually all transition countries over a long time period (1996-99 through 2002-05), as well … convergence of transition countries with developed market economies in a number of dimensions. The pattern of growth at the …

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Innovation, Adoption, Ownership, and Productivity: Evidence from Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Vakhitova, Hanna; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

investment. New firm productivity growth is a result of higher investment volume rather than investment efficiency. …

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Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Bank Lending: The Case of Ukraine

Talavera, Oleksandr; Tsapin, Andriy; Zholud, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Our study investigates the link between bank lending behavior and macroeconomic uncertainty. We develop a dynamic model of a bank's value maximization that results in a negative relationship between loan to capital ratio and macroeconomic uncertainty. This proposition is tested using a panel of...

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Technological Change and Transition: Relative Contributions to Worldwide Growth during the 1990s

Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Zelenyuk, Valentin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

technological change, whereas capital accumulation played a lesser and opposite role. In further contrast, we found that efficiency …

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Extreme Weather Events and Child Height: Evidence from Mongolia

Groppo, Valeria; Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

We provide new evidence on the impact of one severe weather shock on child height in Mongolia. Our focus is on the extremely harsh winter - locally referred to as dzud - of 2009/10, which caused more than 23 percent of the national livestock to perish. This resulted in a food insecurity...

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Employment Generation in Rural Africa: Mid-Term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda

Blattman, Christopher; Fiala, Nathan; Martinez, Sebastian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty reduce the risk of social instability? We experimentally evaluate one of Uganda's largest development programs, which provided thousands of young people nearly unconditional,...

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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda

Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different population sub-groups. The authors pool three nationally representative demographic and health surveys from before and after the genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of...

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Who Does What in a Household after Genocide?: Evidence from Rwanda

Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of casualties were adult males. The paper explores two...

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Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique

Giesbert, Lena; Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Using a micro-level approach to poverty traps, this paper explores welfare dynamics among households in post-war rural Mozambique. Conceptually, the paper builds on an asset-based approach to poverty and tests empirically, with household panel data, for the existence of a poverty trap. Findings...

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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an extensive overview of existing practices and datasets used...

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