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Learning to Use Trade Agreements
Krishna, Kala - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while paying zero or preferential tariffs as long as Rules of Origin (ROOs) are met. Meeting them is costly not only in terms of production costs but also in terms of documentation costs....
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Concentration and Resilience in the U.S. Meat Supply Chains
Ma, Meilin; Lusk, Jayson L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
consumers is a smaller number of processors. The concentrated nature of the meat processing sectors in the United States implies … concentrated meat processing sector would be less vulnerable to the risks of temporary plant shutdowns. We calibrate an economic … horizontal concentration of meat packing …
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Behavioral Public Economics : Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers
Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2005
This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard ("behavioral") assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics. Second, we illustrate applications of these approaches by...
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The Rise of the Chicago Packers and the Origins of Meat Inspection and Antitrust
Libecap, Gary D. - 1991
The Meat Inspection Act of 1891 and the Sherman Act of 1890 are shown to be closely tied. This link makes clearer …
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Conditional cash transfers in education design features, peer and sibling effects evidence from a randomized experiment in Colombia
Barrera Osorio, Felipe (contributor) - 2008
"We evaluate multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries -- the conditional cash transfer (CCT) -- with a student level randomization that allows us to generate intra-family and peer-network variation. We test three treatments: a basic CCT...
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Crime and Gender Segregation : Evidence from the Bogota "Pico y Genero" Lockdown
Knight, Brian G.; Ponce de Leon, Maria Mercedes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Bogota Colombia during the pandemic. Under the policy, men were allowed out on odd days and women on even days, and we …
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Long Term Effects of Cash Transfer Programs in Colombia
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Medina, Carlos; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) programs have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes including education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en Accion, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage...
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A Search and Learning Model of Export Dynamics
Eaton, Jonathan; Eslava, Marcela; Jinkins, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
customs records of U.S. imports of manufactures from Colombia we replicate patterns of exporter maturation. A potentially …
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The Effects of Public Housing on Children : Evidence from Colombia
Camacho, Adriana; Duque, Valentina; Gilraine, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze the effect of Colombia's ambitious "Free Housing" program on children's educational outcomes. The program …
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State-building on the Margin : An Urban Experiment in Medellin
Blattman, Christopher; Duncan, Gustavo; Lessing, Benjamin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Medellin's government wanted to raise its efficacy, legitimacy, and control. The city identified 80 neighborhoods with weak state presence and competing armed actors. In half, they increased non-police street presence tenfold for two years, offering social services and dispute resolution. In...
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