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Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting : Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi
Basurto, Pia M. - 2017
Developing countries spend vast sums on subsidies. Beneficiaries are typically selected via either a proxy-means test (PMT) or through a decentralized identification process led by local leaders. A decentralized allocation may offer informational or accountability advantages, but may be prone to...
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The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions
Bazzi, Samuel - 2018
policy experiment in Indonesia to show how the effects of ethnic diversity on conflict depend on the political units within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453094
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Impact of Rural and Urban Hospital Closures on Inpatient Mortality
Gujral, Kritee - 2019
This paper examines the impact of California's hospital closures occurring from 1995-2011 on adjusted inpatient mortality for time-sensitive conditions: sepsis, stroke, asthma/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Using a difference- in-difference...
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Growing Apart : Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Mommaerts, Corina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late 2000s. We document an erosion of consumption insurance against both household-level idiosyncratic and village-level aggregate income shocks, and show that this decline is related...
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The distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on firm organization
Bloom, Nicholas - 2009
Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the "information" and … "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that these have very different effects on the empowerment …' lower level agents. Conversely, technologies reducing communication costs substitute agent's knowledge for directions from …
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Organizing Offshoring : Middle Managers and Communication Costs
Antràs, Pol - 2006
that the positive effect of middle skills on offshoring is weaker, the more advanced are communication technologies in the …
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On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions
Bisin, Alberto - 2017
Explanations of economic growth and prosperity commonly identify a unique causal effect, e.g., institutions, culture, human capital, geography. In this paper we provide instead a theoretical modeling of the interaction between culture and institutions and their effects on economic activity. We...
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Economic Development, the Nutrition Trap and Metabolic Disease
Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan; Oommen, Anu; Singh, Swapnil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
biological mechanism, which are validated with micro-data from India, Indonesia and Ghana can jointly explain inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616580
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Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters
Cameron, Lisa - 2013
(using real money) with randomly selected individuals in rural Indonesia. We find that individuals who recently suffered a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459127
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Centralized versus Decentralized Provision of Local Public Goods : A Political Economy Analysis
Besley, Timothy - 1999
of centralization stressed in the existing literature disappear, suggesting that the case for decentralization must be … driven by political economy considerations. Our political economy analysis assumes that under decentralization public goods …
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