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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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Global climate change and the resurgence of tropical disease: An economic approach
Gollin, Douglas; Zimmermann, Christian - 2010
We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., purchasing bednets or other goods) that provide partial protection from disease. However, these...
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Does Climate Change Make Foodgrain Yields More Unpredictable? Evidence from India
Verma, Saumya - 2020
How would climate change affect India's agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India's major food crop) and two key millet crops (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district...
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Relative Prices and Climate Policy : How the Scarcity of Non-Market Goods Drives Policy Evaluation
Drupp, Moritz A. - 2020
Climate change not only impacts production and market consumption, but also the relative scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities. We study fundamental drivers of the resulting relative price changes, their potential magnitude, and their implications for climate policy in...
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Simple Rules for Climate Policy and Integrated Assessment
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2018
A simple integrated assessment framework that gives rules for the optimal carbon price, transition to the carbon-free era and stranded carbon assets is presented, which highlights the ethical, economic, geophysical and political drivers of optimal climate policy. For the ethics we discuss the...
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The Effects of Climate Change on a Small Open Economy
Economides, George - 2019
We investigate the impact of climate change on the macroeconomic performance of a small open economy. The setup is a new Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of a small open economy without monetary policy independence in which a climate module that interacts with the economy...
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