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Air pollution and agricultural productivity in a developing country
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023
I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution … induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014315725
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Regulating manufacturing FDI : local labor market responses to a protectionist policy in Indonesia
Gehrke, Esther; Genthner, Robert; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2024
, exploiting revisions in Indonesia’s highly-granular negative investment list, and spatial variation in the exposure of the …, explaining about one-tenth of the aggregate employment increases observed between 2006 and 2016 in Indonesia. These employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495081
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Does electrification spur the fertility transition? : evidence from Indonesia
Grimm, Michael; Sparrow, Robert; Tasciotti, Luca - 2014
We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies on a district-fixed effects approach and controlling for local economic development. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350358
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Old-age support in developing countries : labor supply, intergenerational transfers and living arrangements
Cameron, Lisa Ann; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2001
Without broad-based public pension schemes, the majority of the elderly in developing countries are left to rely on their own current and accumulated earnings and support from children as means of old-age support. We develop a cooperative bargaining model that allows us to jointly estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401203
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Why are pollution damages lower in developed countries? : insights from high-income, high-particulate matter Hong Kong
Colmer, Jonathan; Lin, Dajun; Liu, Siying; Shimshack, Jay P. - 2021
Conventional wisdom suggests that marginal damages from particulate matter pollution are high in less … birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate matter exposure in high-pollution yet high-income Hong Kong. The … our stark mortality results in a comparative analysis of pollution-mortality relationships across studies. We provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596214
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Privatisation in developing countries : what are the lessons of recent experience?
Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571943
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Regulatory barriers and entry in developing economies
Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006
We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to 'excessive' entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328066
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The shadow economy and work in the shadow : what do we (not) know?
Schneider, Friedrich - 2012
influential factors on the shadow economy and/or shadow labor force are tax policies and state regulation, which, if they rise … ; shadow labor force ; tax morale ; tax pressure ; state regulation ; labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533973
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Product market regulation, firm size, unemployment and informality in developing economies
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - 2011
formal sector wage premium. The opposite is true for labor market regulation. Finally, we show that the so-called overhiring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230678
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Deregulation in a time of pandemic : does pollution increase coronavirus cases or deaths?
Persico, Claudia; Johnson, Kathryn R. - 2020
suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about … whether increases in pollution could cause additional or more severe infections from COVID-19, which typically manifests as a … respiratory infection. Using variation in pollution induced by a rollback of enforcement of environmental regulations by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213171