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Agoa Rules : The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Special Fabric Provisions
Edwards, Lawrence - 2011
locally. When the MFA was removed, constrained countries such as China moved strongly into precisely the markets in which AGOA …
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Dangers of a Double-Bottom Line : A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets
Karlan, Dean - 2018
Two for-profit Philippine social enterprises, aiming to demonstrate corporate social responsibility by increasing microlending to the poor, incorporated a widely-used poverty measurement tool into their loan applications and tested the tool using randomized training content. Treated loan...
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Instruments of Development : Randomization in the Tropics, and the Search for the Elusive Keys to Economic Development
Deaton, Angus - 2010
-based evaluation of projects is unlikely to lead to scientific progress in the understanding of economic development. I welcome recent … trends in development experimentation away from the evaluation of projects and towards the evaluation of theoretical …
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Deputization
Carlin, Bruce; Umar, Tarik; Yi, Hanyi (Livia) - 2022
A policy of deputization asks agents to monitor others without providing explicit incentives. It is often used to prevent dangerous activities. To calibrate whether and why it works, we study recent laws that deputized financial professionals to help fight elder financial abuse. We show...
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Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform : Evidence from Chinese Exporters
Khandelwal, Amit - 2011
If trade barriers are managed by inefficient institutions, trade liberalization can lead to greater-than-expected gains. We examine Chinese textile and clothing exports before and after the elimination of externally imposed export quotas. We find that the surge in export value and decline in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119342
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China's Experience Under the Multifiber Arrangement (Mfa) and the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (Atc)
Brambilla, Irene - 2010
This paper analyzes China's experience under U.S. apparel and textile quotas. It makes use of a unique new database … (1974 to 1995) and subsequent Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (1995 to 2005). We find that China was relatively more … constrained under these regimes than other countries and that, as quotas were lifted, China's exports grew disproportionately …
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The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on Covid-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration
Burlig, Fiona; Sudarshan, Anant; Schlauch, Garrison - 2021
using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230605
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China's GDP Growth May Be Understated
Clark, Hunter L. - 2017
Concerns about the quality of China's official GDP statistics have been a perennial question in understanding its …
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Buying Reputation as a Signal of Quality : Evidence from an Online Marketplace
Li, Lingfang (Ivy) - 2016
Reputation is critical to foster trust in online marketplaces, yet leaving feedback is a public good that can be under-provided unless buyers are rewarded for it. Signaling theory implies that only high quality sellers would reward buyers for truthful feedback. We explore this scope for...
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Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?
Doepke, Matthias - 2014
In recent years, a number of governments and consumer groups in rich countries have tried to discourage the use of child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards. The purported objective of such measures is to reduce...
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