We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff … increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects. …

We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies …

In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the … Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early childhood nutritional status. This paper …

team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments – which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …

of spatial heterogeneity in local labour market performance and the well-known North-South divide. Furthermore, the …

We study the effect of recognition on performance with a field experiment involving first-year undergraduate students … that conformance to performance norm is the most likely behavioral mechanism behind our findings. …

performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find …

teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but … interestingly a counterbalancing force emerges, namely team dynamics that are driven by performance of runners who enter and leave. …