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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 … transfers, provided that it is allocated rationally. Broadly, this appears to be the case in Bangladesh. We leave the measuring …
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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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Think Locally, Act Locally : Spillovers, Spillbacks, and Efficient Decentralized Policymaking
Ogawa, Hikaru; Wildasin, David E. - 2021
In this paper, we analyze a class of models in which there are interjurisdictional spillovers among heterogeneous jurisdictions, as illustrated for instance by CO2 emissions that affect the global environment. Each jurisdiction's emissions depend upon the local stock of private capital. Capital...
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Conservation by Lending
Harstad, Bård; Storesletten, Kjetil - 2023
This project analyzes how a principal can motivate an agent to conserve rather than exploit a depletable resource. This dynamic problem is relevant for tropical deforestation as well as for other environmental problems. It is shown that the smaller is the agent's discount factor (e.g., because...
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Green Governments
Potrafke, Niklas; Wuthrich, Kaspar - 2021
We examine how Green governments influence macroeconomic, education, and environmental outcomes. We exploit that the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan gave rise to an unanticipated change in government in the German state Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2011. Using the synthetic control method, we find...
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The environmental and macroeconomic effects of socially responsible investment
Dam, Lammertjan; Heijdra, Ben J. - 2008
We analyze the effects of socially responsible investment and public abatement on environmental quality and the economy in a continuous-time dynamic growth model featuring optimizing households and firms. Environmental quality is modelled as a renewable resource. Consumers can invest in...
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Growing apart?: a tale of two republics: Estonia and Georgia
Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Hochreiter, Eduard - 2007
We compare and contrast the economic growth performance of Estonia and Georgia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 in an attempt to understand better the extent to which the growth differential between the two countries can be traced to increased efficiency in the use of capital and...
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