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Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization : Saint-Germain-D'Anxure 1730-1895

Blanc, Guillaume; Wacziarg, Romain T. - 2021

Using a unique, comprehensive household-level dataset for a single French village from 1730 to 1895, we study the … village. We find that the fall in fertility preceded the rise in education by several decades. Demographic change is plausibly … forces. All these changes occurred in the absence of industrialization in and around the village. We conclude that …

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Healing the Wounds : Learning from Sierra Leone's Post-War Institutional Reforms

Casey, Katherine - 2012

While its recent history of civil war, chronic poverty and corrupt governance would cause many to dismiss Sierra Leone as a hopeless case, the country's economic and political performance over the last decade has defied expectations. We examine how several factors--including the legacy of war,...

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The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China : Theory and Empirical Evidence on the Autocrat's Trade-Off

Martinez-Bravo, Monica - 2017

reduces the desirability of elections for the autocrat. To test (i) and (ii), we collect a large village-level panel dataset … (iii). In doing so, we shed light on why the Chinese government has systematically undermined village governments twenty …

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Temporary Migration and Endogenous Risk Sharing in Village India

Morten, Melanie - 2016

When people can self-insure via migration, they may have less need for informal risk sharing. At the same time, informal insurance may reduce the need to migrate. To understand the joint determination of migration and risk sharing I study a dynamic model of risk sharing with limited commitment...

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Heterogeneity and Risk Sharing in Village Economies

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2011

village, full insurance cannot be rejected, suggesting that relatives provide something close to a complete … would benefit from eliminating village-level risk, less-risk-averse households who are paid to absorb that risk would be …

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Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information : Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Alatas, Vivi - 2012

we structurally estimate using within-village data. The model generates qualitative predictions about how cross-village …

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Keepin' 'EM Down on the Farm : Migration and Strategic Investment in Children's Schooling

Jensen, Robert - 2017

In rural areas of most developing countries, intergenerational coresidence is both widespread and an important determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on the family farm or provide care and assistance around...

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Gossip : Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2014

central (not just those with many friends). Moreover, these nominees are more central in the network than traditional village …

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Tractable and Consistent Random Graph Models

Chandrasekhar, Arun G. - 2014

We define a general class of network formation models, Statistical Exponential Random Graph Models (SERGMs), that nest standard exponential random graph models (ERGMs) as a special case. We provide the first general results on when these models' (including ERGMs) parameters estimated from the...

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Social Networks as Contract Enforcement : Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field

Chandrasekhar, Arun G. - 2014

Absence of well-functioning formal institutions leads to reliance on social networks to enforce informal contracts. Social ties may aid cooperation, but agents vary in network centrality, and this hierarchy may hinder cooperation. To assess the extent to which networks substitute for...

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