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Educational outcomes of children are highly dependent on household and school-level inputs. In poor countries, remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behind. At the same time the absence of migrant parents can affect families' time allocation towards...
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the presence of foreign investors is associated with changes in local corruption around foreign-owned production …
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to fall to about half its pre-modern level. Most components of the demand for religion are reduced by development. The … supply of religion declines once churches lose control over the institutions providing collective goods like education …
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Corporation (MCC) was successful in promoting better control of corruption. We employ a difference … corruption over time. We conclude that – if designed properly –conditionality can work. -- Foreign Aid ; Corruption ; Millennium …
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A core result of the aid allocation literature is that the quality of governance in recipient countries does not affect the amounts of foreign aid received. Donor countries may still give aid to poorly-governed countries because of a dilemma they face: those countries most in need typically also...
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Measures of corruption and income are highly correlated across countries. We use prehistoric measures of biogeography … as instruments for modern income levels to identify an exogenous long-run income effect. We find that our corruption …-free incomes explain the cross-country pattern of corruption just as well as actual incomes. This result suggests that the long …
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corruption on productivity. Corruption is defined as a “bribe tax” and is compared to another form of institutional inefficiency …, which is often believed to be closely linked with corruption: the “time tax” imposed on firms by red tape. When testing … individual firms appears to vary depending on overall institutional quality: in countries where corruption is more prevalent and …
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, foreign direct investment, corruption …
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This paper looks at the importance of CSR considerations in the decision taken by a foreign affiliate of a multinational company about the choice of local suppliers. We investigate this empirically using unique firm level data for more than 2,000 foreign owned firms in 19 Sub-Saharan African...
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This paper provides insights into the apparent seesaw between the generation of theoretical versus empirical economics research over time. A dynamic model considers the incentives of researchers to focus on empirical versus theoretical papers. It yields the main characteristics of the...
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