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A Model of Ngo Regulation with an Application to Uganda
Burger, Ronelle - 2013
these configurations. We apply our analysis to a large sample of NGOs from Uganda, and find regulation to be beneficial in …
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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel - 2010
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
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Project Aid and Firm Performance
Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania; Paul, Saumik - 2022
This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using a large dataset of 110864 firms spanning 121 countries between 2001 and 2016. We find that, contrary to the World Bank, Chinese ODA projects increase, on average, firm sales...
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Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning : Evidence from a Large Public Program in India
Afridi, Farzana - 2013
We use the nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India. Using primary survey data, we find more program...
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Fertility and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility …
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Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction
Bergström, Lina - 2010
Although we know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings, we know relatively little about the mechanisms behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that...
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On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics
Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2010
between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two … single women in equilibrium. Using an extended version of the model to a finite number of periods and fertility data, I show …
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Does Culture Matter?
Fernández, Raquel - 2010
issues, including female labor force participation, fertility, labor market regulation, redistribution, growth, and financial …
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Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply
Bredemeier, Christian - 2010
This paper investigates the pattern of wives' hours disaggregated by the husband's wage decile. In the US, this pattern has changed from downward-sloping to hump-shaped. We show that this development can be explained within a standard household model of labor supply when taking into account...
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The Career Costs of Children
Adda, Jerome - 2011
-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …
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