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Resolving the African Financial Development Gap : Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya

Allen, Franklin - 2012

With extensive country- and firm-level data sets we first document that the financial sectors of most sub-Saharan African countries remain significantly underdeveloped by the standards of other developing countries. We also find that population density appears to be considerably more important...

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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption : Evidence from Us States

Campante, Filipe R. - 2013

We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that this isolation reduces accountability, and in contrast with the alternative hypothesis that it might forestall political capture. We then provide direct...

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Transportation and Health in the Antebellum United States 1820-1847

Zimran, Ariell - 2018

I study the impact of transportation on health in the rural US, 1820–1847. Measuring health by average stature, I find that greater transportation linkage, as measured by market access, in a cohort's county-year of birth had an adverse impact on its health. A one-standard deviation increase in...

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Can Smallholder Extension Transform African Agriculture?

Deutschmann, Joshua W. - 2020

Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of policy experiments has yielded more evidence on what fails than on what works. We analyze a randomized control trial of a rare scaled-up success story: One Acre Fund's small...

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Girl Power : Cash Transfers and Adolescent Welfare. Evidence from a Cluster-Randomized Experiment in Malawi

Baird, Sarah - 2013

Interventions targeting adolescent girls are seen as a key component in the fight to break the cycle of poverty in developing countries. Policies that enable them to reach their full potential can have a strong impact not only on their own wellbeing, but also on that of future generations. This...

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Social Frictions to Knowledge Diffusion : Evidence from an Information Intervention

Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2016

Does knowledge about antipoverty programs spread quickly within poor communities or are there significant frictions, such as due to social exclusion? We combine longitudinal and intra-household observations in estimating the direct knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural...

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My Policies or Yours : Does OECD Support for Agriculture Increase Poverty in Developing Countries?

Ashraf, Nava; McMillan, Margaret; Zwane, Alix Peterson - 2021

This paper investigates the impact of rich-country agricultural support on the poor. Using non-parametric analysis we establish that the majority of poor countries are consistently net importers of food products that are heavily supported by OECD governments. Using a cross-country regression...

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The Area and Population of Cities : New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities

Rozenfeld, Hernán - 2010

The distribution of the population of cities has attracted a great deal of attention, in part because it sharply constrains models of local growth. However, to this day, there is no consensus on the distribution below the very upper tail, because available data need to rely on the "legal" rather...

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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 economic dynamics. We use data on satellite-recorded nighttime lights as an independent benchmark for comparing various published indicators of the state of the Chinese economy....

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Urban Population and Amenities : The Neoclassical Model of Location

Albouy, David - 2016

We analyze a neoclassical general-equilibrium model to explain cross-metro variation in population, density, and land … develop a new method to estimate elasticities of housing and land supply, and local-productivity estimates, from cross …-sectional density and land-area data. From wage and housing-cost indices, the model explains half of U.S. density and total population …

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