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from the analysis. (i) Fiscal expansions led to higher growth rates and reduced negative trade-offs, e.g., pollution and … poor-health mortalities associated with economic growth. (ii) Fiscal adjustments led to a more inclusive economy, lowered … poverty headcounts, improved sanitation, and cleaner technology access. (iii) Fiscal expansions followed an increase in direct …
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Domestic mobility restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 are widespread in developing countries, and have trapped millions of migrant workers in hotspot cities. We show that bans can increase cumulative infections relative to a counterfactual sans restrictions. A SEIR model shows bans'...
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We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in South Africa. We consider all Ph.D. students in STEM graduating between 2000 and 2014, after the recent systematic introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We...
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Between 1967 and 1974, a bilateral treaty increased circular labor migration from Malawi to South Africa by 200%, bringing over 53 million USD in earnings into origin communities. A deadly migrant worker plane crash in 1974 ended these flows and led to migrant repatriation. We study how this...
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This paper studies how market competition influences the algorithmic design choices of firms in the context of targeting. Firms face the general trade-off between bias and variance when choosing the design of a supervised learning algorithm in terms of model complexity or the number of...
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Models defined by moment inequalities have become a standard modeling framework for empirical economists, spreading … inference in moment inequality models is large and complex, including multiple survey papers that document the non … to help applied researchers navigate all the decisions required to frame a model as a moment inequality model and then to …
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The present study examines the assumptions, modeling structure, and preliminary results of DICE-2023, the revised …
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-group Bertrand (SGB). Growth in the economy is the experiment used to compare these specifications. While the overall effects of … growth on welfare are qualitatively similar, the gains to initially small economies are much larger under either small …
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The key purpose of corporate finance is to provide methods to compute the value of projects. The baseline textbook recommendation is to use the Present Value (PV) formula of expected cash flows, with a discount rate based on the CAPM. In this paper, we ask what is, empirically, the best...
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The primary motivation behind quantitative modeling in international trade and many other fields is to shed light on …
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