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Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain

Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Semrau, Finn Ole - In: Journal of Development Economics 167 (2024), pp. 1-31

analyze a model of sequential production with incomplete contracts where CSR by independent suppliers differentiates the final … product in the eyes of caring consumers. Progressing down the value chain, our model predicts an increasing CSR profile from …

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Rural labor and credit markets

Caselli, Francesco - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1996

This paper studies changes over time in the incidence of labor tying. The existingliterature is successful in explaining the emergence of this institution, but contains thecounterfactual implication that there should be an increasing trend in labor tying. However,previous contributions have so...

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Poverty and land redistribution

Keswell, Malcolm; Carter, Michael R. - In: Journal of Development Economics 110 (2014) C, pp. 250-261

Despite a theoretical literature that promises that land transfers will have large impacts on the well-being of poor households, well-identified empirical evidence on the efficacy of land redistribution is scarce. In an effort to fill this gap, this paper examines South Africa's Land...

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Cash, food, or vouchers? Evidence from a randomized experiment in northern Ecuador

Hidrobo, Melissa; Hoddinott, John; Peterman, Amber; … - In: Journal of Development Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 144-156

The debate over whether to provide food-assistance and the form that this assistance should take has a long history in economics. Despite the ongoing debate, little rigorous evidence exists that compares food-assistance in the form of cash versus in-kind. This paper uses a randomized evaluation...

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Commitment savings in informal banking markets

Basu, Karna - In: Journal of Development Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 97-111

I study the provision of commitment savings by informal banks to sophisticated hyperbolic discounters. Since a consumer is subject to temptation in the period that he signs a contract, banks might exploit his desire for instant gratification even as they help him to commit for the future....

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Informal finance: A theory of moneylenders

Madestam, Andreas - In: Journal of Development Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 157-174

I present a model that analyzes the coexistence of formal and informal finance in underdeveloped credit markets. Formal … substitutes. The model also explains why weak legal institutions increase the prevalence of informal finance in some markets and …

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Group versus individual liability: Short and long term evidence from Philippine microcredit lending groups

Giné, Xavier; Karlan, Dean S. - In: Journal of Development Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 65-83

Group liability in microcredit purports to improve repayment rates through peer screening, monitoring, and enforcement. However, it may create excessive pressure, and discourage reliable clients from borrowing. Two randomized trials tested the overall effect, as well as specific mechanisms. The...

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Do elected leaders in a limited democracy have real power? Evidence from rural China

Mu, Ren; Zhang, Xiaobo - In: Journal of Development Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 17-27

Do elected leaders in an authoritarian regime have any real power? Does grassroots democracy in a one-party state entail parochial problems? Making use of primary survey data covering two election cycles in a mountainous area of China, where an administrative village consists of several natural...

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Seasonal effects of water quality: The hidden costs of the Green Revolution to infant and child health in India

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Menon, Nidhiya - In: Journal of Development Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 49-64

This paper examines the impact of fertilizer agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using water quality data combined with data on child health outcomes from the Demographic and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the...

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A structural econometric analysis of the informal sector heterogeneity

Nguimkeu, Pierre - In: Journal of Development Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 175-191

estimate a model of entrepreneurial choice to address the heterogeneity in occupations and earnings observed within the … informal sector. I test the implications of the model with reduced form and nonparametric techniques, and use a structural … empirical validity of the structural estimates is tested and the estimated model is used in counterfactual policy simulations to …

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