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significant impact on hemoglobin, anemia, physical health, cognition or mental health. For the sales experiment, we can reject at …
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In developing countries, identifying the poor for redistribution or social insurance is challenging because the government lacks information about people's incomes. This paper reports the results of a field experiment conducted in 640 Indonesian villages that investigated two main approaches to...
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Outsourcing government service provision to private firms can improve efficiency and reduce rents, but there are risks that non-contractible quality will decline and that reform could be blocked by vested interests exactly where potential gains are greatest. We examine these issues by conducting...
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(1 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3 SD), and health (0.2 SD). These effects grow for the first seven years …
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This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large income shock experienced in … regional variation in the timing of this shock to identify its effects. We examine the effects on the adult height, health, and …, but it did not affect other dimensions of health, including life expectancy. We find that, at age 20, those born in …
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We examine how credit constraints affect the cyclical behavior of productivity-enhancing investment and thereby … a long-term productivity-enhancing one. Because it takes longer to complete, long-term investment has a relatively less …
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even for risk neutral multinationals, as their profit function is non-linear due to price and productivity effects. For … of productivity shocks in an emerging market producing the intermediate inputs reduces the multinationals' expected … in each country to productivity shocks, channeling the average employment from the more to the less volatile location …
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We trace the linkages between the episodes of fiscal expansion and consolidation in 72 advanced and emerging and developing economies. The findings suggest that fiscal expansions are positively associated with economic growth, which in turn is positively linked with better sustainable...
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The purpose of this paper is to address the role of endogenous default penalties that are contingent upon the intensity of default on the part of the borrowing nation, and to evaluate the effects of contingency plans that make the interest rate dependent upon variables that are correlated with...
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degree to which real wages and productivity depend on external factors while at the …expected productivity gains, the investment cost associated with the modern …
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