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Elite Capture, Political Voice and Exclusion from Aid : An Experimental Study

D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - 2021

We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...

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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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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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Who Gives for Overseas Development?

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2021

Individuals' donations to overseas charities are an important source of funding for development assistance from rich industrialised countries. But little is known about the nature of these charitable donations. The literature on giving focuses on total donations to all causes and does not...

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Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth

Chatterjee, Santanu; Giuliano, Paola; Kaya, Ilker - 2021

This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the missing link between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....

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Early Impacts of College Aid

Caceres-Delpiano, Julio - 2015

We analyze the impact of an expansion in government-guaranteed credit for higher education in Chile on a sample of elementary and high school students. Using students who had an alternative source of funding as a control group, and administrative records before and after the reform, we present...

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Allocation of Labour in Urban West Africa : Implication for Development Policies

Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2013

With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrollment through the prism of allocation of labour and returns to skills across the formal and informal sectors. We find that people...

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Aid to Jobless Workers in Florida in the Face of the Great Recession : The Interaction of Unemployment Insurance and the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program

Heflin, Colleen - 2014

Although many programs redistribute resources in the U.S., two program were central in providing a safety net for those facing hardship during the Great Recession: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which grew to 47.7 million people in January 2013 – or 15.1 percent of all...

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The Worth of Cities in Germany

Gehr, Katja; Pflüger, Michael - 2023

and households and the aggregate economy of Germany. We adopt alternative micro-foundations for agglomeration economies … Germany's labor markets, housing rents, and household travel-to-work data, to estimate the population elasticities of urban … benefits and costs. We are the first to establish elasticities for urban costs for Germany, an estimated elasticity of …

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Who is to Suffer? Quantifying the Impact of Sanctions on German Firms

Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Meuchelböck, Saskia - 2023

In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour …

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