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Enterprise Zones, Poverty, and Labor Market Outcomes : Resolving Conflicting Evidence
Neumark, David - 2019
This paper revisits an important analysis of enterprise zones (EZs) by Ham, Swenson, İmrohoroğlu, and Song (2011), who report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In our re-analysis, we find that a data error...
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The Determinants of Subnational Public Spending Allocation for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh
Karim, Azreen - 2020
disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in Bangladesh, a country with a very high exposure to weather risk. We use a … comprehensive dataset for the 483 sub-districts (Upazilas) in Bangladesh, tracking disaster risk reduction and adaptation funding … does proximity to the centres of Dhaka and Chittagong. Public spending for adaptive disaster risk reduction, as …
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Gender Empowerment, Supply-Chain Linkages and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence on Bangladesh
Kee, Hiau-Looi - 2020
on a unique firm-to-firm dataset of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors. We look at the female employment of …
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Layoffs and Productivity at a Bangladeshi Sweater Factory
Akerlof, Robert - 2020
Conflicts between management and workers are common and can have significant impacts on productivity. We study how workers in a large Bangladeshi sweater factory responded to management's decision to lay off about a quarter of the workers following a period of labor unrest. Our main finding is...
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Flexible Microcredit : Effects on Loan Repayment and Social Pressure
Czura, Kristina - 2020
Flexible repayment schedules allow borrowers to invest in profitable yet risky projects, but practitioners fear they erode repayment morale. We study repayment choices in rigid and flexible loan contracts that allow discretion in repayment timing. To separate strategic repayment choices from...
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Social Norms and Misinformation : Experimental Evidence on Learning About Menstrual Health Management in Rural Bangladesh
Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina - 2021
with women in rural Bangladesh, we measure social norms in the form of empirical and normative expectations about menstrual …
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The Cost of the COVID-19 Crisis : Lockdowns, Macroeconomic Expectations, and Consumer Spending
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
We study how the differential timing of local lockdowns due to COVID-19 causally affects households' spending and macroeconomic expectations at the local level using several waves of a customized survey with more than 10,000 respondents. About 50% of survey participants report income and wealth...
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Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock : Evidence from Real Time Surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi - 2020
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply
Boca, Daniela Del - 2020
Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. The attendance of labor-market-oriented mentoring...
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Globalization in the Time of COVID-19
Sforza, Alessandro - 2020
The economic effects of a pandemic crucially depend on the extend to which countries are connected in global production networks. In this paper we incorporate production barriers induced by COVID-19 shock into a Ricardian model with sectoral linkages, trade in intermediate goods and sectoral...
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